“One of the most interesting and colorful figures in the current revival of Jewish music… London is consciously and constantly working to expand the vocabulary of Jewish music, [but he] is also known for injecting a healthy dose of free jazz aesthetic and energy.”
All About Jazz
“Frank London’s experimental klezmer opera A Night in the Old Marketplace is a brilliant musical adaptation of Y. L. Peretz’s macabre play of the same name, written a century ago, which drew on Yiddish folklore…Peretz once wrote that the singing voice is on the borderline between spirit and matter, and London and Berger’s music brings Peretz’s world of earthy mysticism to life.”
Backata.com
“The greatest and most significant Jewish musical since Fiddler”
Seth Rogovoy, author of The Essential Klezmer
“These artists have found their vision through an eclectic music which mixes klezmer, jazz, classical, and rock, not to mention the world of Kurt Weill-a reworking of old material and taking it to an entirely new level. We found ourselves absolutely blown away by the experience and bow in acknowledgment to composer Frank London and lyricist Glen Berger, not to mention the superb cast of performers and musicians.”
Irene Backalenick, allaboutjewishtheater.com
“An outstanding example of storytelling set to an eclectic mix of emotion. London’s efforts seem to swallow you up and pull you within each arrangement and lyric. This is about as fine an introduction to the novice of the Jewish art form that there is, and is a superb example with numerous avenues to experience.”
ejazznews.com
“The music wanders from Klezmer to Latin… jazz to popular… earth to outer space, all the while committing every heresy possible. Here’s to that old time religion.
Make your way, make your way
Purgatory is open today
No need to solicit God’s grace
To come to the old marketplace
Man, it doesn’t get any better than this.”
Micheal C. Bailey, allaboutjazz.com
“Splashed against a decadent rich Klezmer-Cabaret backdrop that sounds like Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht deep in the bottle after an opium binge… wickedly funny.”
All About Jazz