Sunday, October 25, 2026
2pm EDT / 11am PDT
You are invited to Together in Music: A Celebration of the Israel Philharmonic, an extraordinary global virtual event. Hosted by actress Mayim Bialik, this free digital experience will feature music by Gershwin, Tchaikovsky, and more, interspersed with personal stories and reflections from Music Director Lahav Shani, IPO musicians, patrons, and friends. We hope you’ll join our international community of supporters as we honor nearly 90 years since the Orchestra’s founding.
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Program:
Neal Hefti: “Two Franks” (arr. Jörg A. Keller)
Itamar Gross: “Variations on the Land”
Charlie Chaplin: “Smile” (arr. Lahav Shani)
George Gershwin: Excerpt from “Rhapsody in Blue”
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Excerpts from “The Nutcracker
Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn: Excerpts from “The Nutcracker”
Count Basie: “The Kid from Red Bank” (arr. Lahav Shani)
The Music Director position is generously endowed by The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation.
About Host Mayim Bialik
Mayim Hoya Bialik is best known for her lead role as Blossom Russo in the 1990s NBC sitcom Blossom, as well as Amy Farrah Fowler on the CBS comedy, The Big Bang Theory, for which she garnered 2 Critics’ Choice Award wins, a SAG nomination, and 4 Emmy nominations. Bialik and her company, Sad Clown Productions, produced the FOX show Call Me Kat, which she starred in for three seasons. She hosted Jeopardy! from 2021-2023, which won the Critics’ Choice Award for ‘Best Game Show’ in 2023 and recently earned her a 2023 Primetime Emmy award nomination for “Outstanding Host For A Game Show”.
Along with her partner, Jonathan Cohen, Bialik hosts a successful podcast, Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown, breaking down myths about mental health; the podcast has 100 million downloads and counting. Bialik’s screenwriting and directorial debut, As They Made Us, came out in 2022 starring Dustin Hoffman, Candice Bergen, Simon Helberg and Dianna Agron. She is a #1 New York Times Best-Selling author for “Girling Up” and “Boying Up” and holds a BS and PhD in Neuroscience from UCLA. Bialik lives in Los Angeles with her teenage sons and 3 cats.
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