Music performed on A Prairie Home Companion, December 18, 1999 The Town Hall, New York, New York

Performers:

Garrison Keillor, Sue Scott, Tim Russell, Tom Keith The Guys All-Star Shoe Band: Richard Dworsky, piano; Andy Stein, fiddle, tenor sax; Pat Donohue, guitar; Greg Hippen, bass; Arnie Kinsella, percussion

Guests:

Chee-Yun: violin; with Akira Eguchi, piano; The Klezmatics: Alicia Svigals, violin; Lorin Sklamberg, accordion, vocals; Paul Morrissett, bass, tsimbl; Frank London, trumpet, keyboards; Aaron Alexander, drums; Matt Darriau, clarinet, saxophone; Tom Brokaw: news anchor (cameo reading) Frankie Garcia, guitar, vocals (cameo)

TISHOMINGO BLUES (Opening theme)

Garrison Keillor, GASB
w/m: Spencer Williams; new words: Garrison Keillor
( 1917 Joseph W. Stern and Co.; (c) 1989 Garrison Keillor

NOCHE DE PAZ (SILENT NIGHT)

Frankie Garcia
w: Joseph Mohr; m: Franz Gruber

SONS OF KNUTE CHRISTMAS DANCE AND DINNER (JOHN JOHNSON'S WEDDING)

Garrison Keillor, GASB
w/m: Traditional; new words: Garrison Keillor
(c) 1999 Garrison Keillor

IN THE BLEAK MID-WINTER

Vern Sutton, GASB
w: Christina Rossetti; m: Gustav Holst; new words: Garrison Keillor
(c) 1999 Garrison Keillor

REAL WORK IN DEEP SNOW

Tom Brokaw (reading), RD (underscore)
w: Tom Brokaw; m: Richard Dworsky
text (c) UMI Company 1998; (c) Forbes Dec 1998; music (c) 1999 Richard Dworsky
pub: American Heritage, Tuesday, December 1, 1998; vol. 49, issue 8; ISSN: 0002-8738

MASTERS IN THE HALL

Pat Donohue, The Guys All-Star Shoe Band
m: Traditional

"POWDERMILK BISCUITS" THEME

Garrison Keillor, The Guys All-Star Shoe Band
w/m: Garrison Keillor
(c) Garrison Keillor

TWO, FOUR, SIX, EIGHT

Garrison Keillor, GASB
w/m: Traditional; new words: Garrison Keillor
(c) 1999 Garrison Keillor

VOCALISE (op. 34, no. 14)

Chee-Yun, AE
m: Sergei Rachmaninoff
(c) 1944 G. Schirmer, Inc.

"GUY NOIR" THEME

Garrison Keillor, GASB
w: Garrison Keillor/Richard Dworsky; m: Richard Dworsky
(c) 1995 Keillor/Dworsky
album: "Guy Noir, Radio Private Eye," HighBridge 39261

O LITTLE TOWN OF BETHLEHEM

Garrison Keillor, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, Tom Keith, audience, RD
w: Phillips Brooks; m: Lewis H. Redner
(c) 1868

IT CAME UPON A MIDNIGHT CLEAR

Garrison Keillor, Tim Russell, Sue Scott, Tom Keith, audience, RD
w: Rev. Edmund Hamilton Sears; m: Richard Storrs Willis
(c) 1850

CHRISTMAS CAROL MEDLEY

Klezmatics
arr: Klezmatics

YEAR-END HOLIDAY PRELUDE

w: Frank London; m: Traditional Turkish

CAROL OF THE BELLS

Eng w: Peter J. Wilhousky; m: M. Leontovich (Ukranian carol)
(c) 1936

THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY

w/m: Katherine K. Davis, Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone
(c) 1958 (Renewed 1986) Mills Music, Inc., and International Korwin Corporation (ASCAP)

GOD REST YE MERRY, GENTLEMEN

w/m: Traditional

JINGLE BELLS

w/m: James Pierpont
(c) 1859 Oliver Ditson

WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS

w/m: Traditional

MAN IN A HAT

w: Dave Lindsay; m: Klezmatics

JOLLY OLD ST. NICHOLAS (intermission)

The Guys All-Star Shoe Band
w/m: Traditional

HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS

w/m: Gene Autry, Oakley Haldeman
(c) 1947

TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS

Garrison Keillor, audience, Tom Keith (SFX), Arnie Kinsella (drum solo), GASB
w/m: Traditional; new words: Garrison Keillor
(c) 1999 Garrison Keillor

FRENCH CAROLS MEDLEY

The Guys All-Star Shoe Band

IL EST NE, LE DIVIN ENFANT (HE IS BORN, THE HOLY CHILD)

w: Traditional 19th Century French; m: Traditional 18th Century French Carol

NOEL NOUVELET (CHRISTMAS COMES Anew)

w/m: Traditional French

UN FLAMBEAU, JEANNETTE, ISABELLE (BRING A TORCH, JEANNETTE, ISABELLA)

w/m: Traditional Provencal, 17th Century Carol; transl: E. Cuthbert Nunn

GIPSY AIRS (ZIGEUNERWEISEN) (op. 20)

Chee-Yun, AE
m: Pablo de Sarasate

STILL, STILL, STILL

Rich Dworsky, Andy Stein, Greg Hippen, Arnie Kinsella
w: Traditional Austrian; m: Salzburg Melody, 1819

SIRBA MATEY MATEY

The Klezmatics
m: Traditional
arr: Matt Darriau

SILENT NIGHT (closer)

Garrison Keillor, audience, RD, AS, GH
w: Joseph Mohr; m: Franz Gruber

Some other material available by guest artists:

Books:

Tom Brokaw

The Greatest Generation, Random House
The Greatest Generation Speaks, Random House

Recordings:

Chee-Yun

"French Violin Sonatas," Denon Records 75625
"Lalo/Saint-Saens," Denon Records 18017
"Mendelssohn & Vieuxtemp Concertos," Denon Records 78913
"Szymanowski & Franck Violin Sonatas," Denon Records 78954
"Vocalise," Denon Records 75118

Klezmatics

"Jews With Horns," Xenophile Records 4032
"Possessed," Xenophile Records 4050
"Rhythm and Jews," Flying Fish Records 591
"Shvaygn Equals Toyt," Stern's Music USA NTE202
"The Well" (with Chava Alberstein), Xenophile Records 4052 4