Music

Teahouse Sher

Teahouse Sher

The gonifs CD is out!
the gonifs

Harbst

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“The gypsy & the nightengale don’t know where to go…” Composed by Daniel Hoffman for the SF Klezmer Experience’s newest CD. From the Yiddish poet Itzik Manger.
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Simkhe party

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The gonifs play live! “Di Zilberne Khasene” (The Silver Anniversary).

Hulye Kabtsn

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This song invites all the beggars to dance. Arranged by Jeanette for the SF Klezmer Experience.
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Youkali-Tango

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A Kurt Weill tune, about an island of peace & love that doesn’t exist. From Max & Minka’s hand-crafted limited-edition CD. http://www.maxminka.com

Accordion Forshpil

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Daniel Hoffman invited me to compose this introduction to “Harbst.”
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Patchwork Suite

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March of the Street Kids from “Carmen,” arranged by Jeanette for three accordions & voices (with C. Ryder Cooley). From Max & Minka’s original score for a silent Oz movie.http://www.maxminka.com

Ele-Bele!

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Arkady Gendler is a 76-year-old Yiddish singer from the Ukraine. I learned his songs to accompany him in Berkeley’s Jewish Music Festival, & we recorded at Fantasy Records two hours before Arkady flew back to Kiev.

The Yiddishe Polka

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Created by Judith Freeman with residents of the Jewish Home for the Aged. They wrote the words, she wrote the music & we all played together.

A Troyerike Lid

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A Yiddish song workshop at the Kultur Kongres in Brooklyn. I learned this lullaby from Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman & her son, Itzik Gottesman. “I’ll buy you a silver paper moon…”