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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Tamir Hendelman

If (like most batters) you like it right down the middle, this blithely swinging Israeli-born pianist might just be your man. Yet Tamir Hendelman is quite capable of throwing an elegant curve, as in his reimagining of Ravel’s Tombeau de Couperin. Saturdays, Zooming from his living room, he’ll festoon the shrines of a series of heroes: Harold Arlen, Miles Davis, Kenny Barron and João Gilberto, Chick Corea, Cole Porter, and “the French Connection”—Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, and Piaf. —E.E.