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