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“I grew up on a farm, listening almost exclusively to legends like Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Billie Holiday, Mel �մǰ���é and Duke Ellington,” she says.

As always, the blissful artistry of “Severance” is in the details – the completed circle of Mark opening the season with a mad dash through the halls and ending it hand in hand with Helly, jogging to who knows where as Mel �մǰ���é croons a wending carpet of easy listening psychedelia behind them.

At 66, the trumpeter, composer, arranger and bandleader has collaborated with everyone from Mel �մǰ���é to LL Cool J. A founding member of the Klezmatics, a band that helped to revitalize the klezmer style during the late ’80s, London has worked for decades at a fertile crossroads where Jewish music meets downtown jazz.

It’s been performed by acts as varied as Mel �մǰ���é, Weezer, Miley Cyrus and the punk band Simple Plan.

There were the parties, where the likes of Rosemary Clooney, Ella Fitzgerald and Mel �մǰ���é would gather around the piano and sing.