The Maxwell Street Klezmer Band & Friends
Levin Performance Studio
Chicago, IL US
2016-12-17
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Live in the Levin Music Performance Studio
Mi Yimalel/Chaim from Odessa (trad, arr. Lori Lippitz - Jim Sobacki) 2:30
A whimsical mashup of a traditional Hanukkah song with a comical Russian-Jewish song from Odessa.
Everybody Dance (to the Hanukah Song) (Billy Kaplan, Hannah Kaplan, and Mary Beth Schaye, vocals) (Billy Kaplan) 3:41
Casting Shadows (Billy Kaplan, Hannah Kaplan, and Mary Beth Schaye, vocals) (Billy Kaplan, arr. Alex Koffman) 3:44
Undzer Toyrele (Our Beloved Torah) (Matvey Kostukovwky, Clarinet) (Dave Tarras and the Abe Schwartz Orchestra) 4:19
(We learned this piece from the reissue Dave Tarras: Yiddish-American Music, 1925 - 1956 (Yazoo Records 7001, 1992).
It appears on our CD, Old Roots, New World
A Clear Winter's Morning (Billy Kaplan, Hannah Kaplan, and Mary Beth Schaye, vocals) (Billy Kaplan, arr. Alex Koffman) 2:34
Chanukah is Special (Bibi Marcell, vocal) (Noah Marcell, arr, Maxwell Street Klezmer Band) 4:35
The Latkes on a Platter Patter (Kayla Chinitz and Margaret Selinger*, Vocals) (Arthur Sullivan, fr. Ruddigore / parody lyrics Lori Lippitz and Eric Selinger, �2009, arr. Alex Koffman) 4:17
*members of the Junior Klezmer Orchestra
Eight Nights Of Joy (Billy Kaplan, Hannah Kaplan, and Mary Beth Schaye, vocals) (Rabbi Joe Black) 4:00
Recorded on Eight Nights of Joy
Hanukkah Lights (Lori Lippitz, vocals) (Lori Lippitz) Recorded on Eight Nights of Joy 4:25
Crazy Dreydl (Alex Koffman, Violin) (Alex Koffman) Recorded on Old Roots, New World 5:17
Roumania, Roumania (Cantor Pavel Roytman, vocals) (Aaron Lebedeff, 1941) 5:41
Home for Hanukah (Billy Kaplan, vocal) (Billy Kaplan, arr. Alex Koffman) 5:31
Medley of Hanukkah Songs (Bibi Marcell and Lori Lippitz, vocals) 7:03
Maoz Tzur: Traditional
Mi Yimalel: Folk melody; lyrics by M. Ravina, English lyrics by B. M. Edidin
Oy Hanukkah Folk Melody, English lyrics by F. Minkoff Recorded on Eight Nights of Joy
Total Time: 57:41