The Town Hall, New York, NY
Performers
• Garrison Keillor, Sue Scott, Tim Russell, Fred Newman,
•The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band: Richard Dworsky, piano, organ, keyboard, melodica; Andy Stein, fiddle and saxophones; Pat Donohue, guitar; Gary Raynor, bass; Arnie Kinsella, percussion
Guests
• Odetta, vocals; with Seth Farber, piano
• Kristin Chenoweth, vocals; with Rob Fisher, piano
• Walter Bobbie, vocals
• Peter Schickele, with Elizabeth Farnum, soprano; Hai-Ting Chinn, alto; Scott Williamson, tenor; Diva Goodfriend-Koven, piccolo; John Moses, E-flat clarinet; Melanie Feld, English Horn; and Harry Searing, contrabassoon
Music
TISHOMINGO BLUES
--Garrison Keillor, Guy's All-Star Shoe Band
--w/m: Spencer Williams; new words: Garrison Keillor
--© 1917 Joseph W. Stern and Co.; © 2006 Garrison Keillor
CHRISTMAS AT THE JAILHOUSE (MOTHER WAS A LADY)
--Garrison Keillor and Guy's All-Star Shoe Band
--Original w/m: Edward B. Marks and Joseph W. Stern
--© Edward B Marks Music Company
--New words: Garrison Keillor © 2006 Garrison Keillor
CELL script underscore
--Richard Dworsky
--m: Richard Dworsky
--© 2006 Richard Dworsky
O LITTLE TOWN OF HACKENSACK
--Elizabeth Farnum, Hai-Ting Chinn, Scott Williamson, Peter Schickele
--w/m: P.D.Q. Bach (reverently edited by Prof. Peter Schickele)
--© 1977 Theodore Presser Co.
WE THREE KINGS (WISE)
--Garrison Keillor, Walter Bobbie, and Tim Russell with Guy's All-Star Shoe Band
--m: traditional
--w: Garrison Keillor © 1996 Garrison Keillor
MRS. CLAUS script underscore
--Richard Dworsky
--m: Richard Dworsky
--© 2006 Richard Dworsky
BRAIN script underscore
--Richard Dworsky
--m: Richard Dworsky
--© 2006 Richard Dworsky
CHRISTMAS BLUES
--Pat Donohue and Guy's All-Star Shoe Band
--w/m: Pat Donohue
--© Salspot Music (BMI)
POWDERMILK BISCUIT THEME
--Garrison Keillor, Guy's All-Star Shoe Band
--w/m: Garrison Keillor
--© Garrison Keillor
ANDY STEIN'S HOLIDAY HOEDOWN
--Guy's All Star Shoe Band
--Arranged by Andy Stein
--© 2001 Andy Stein
ANGELS WE HAVE HEARD ON HIGH
--w/m: traditional
"March" from THE NUTCRACKER SUITE
--w/m: Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky
HARK THE HERALD ANGELS SING
--w/m: Felix Mendelssohn
"Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy" from THE NUTCRACKER SUITE
--w/m: Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky
"Waltz of the Flowers" from THE NUTCRACKER SUITE
--w/m: Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky
WHITE CHRISTMAS
--w/m: Irving Berlin
--© 1940 Irving Berlin
"Russian Dance- Trepek " from THE NUTCRACKER SUITE
--w/m: Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky
WINTER WONDERLAND
--w/m: Felix Bernard and Dick Smith
--© 1934 Bregman, Vocco, & Conn
"Hallelujah Chorus" from THE MESSIAH
--w/m: George Frideric Handel
WHAT MAKES ME LOVE HIM? (from "The Apple Tree")
--Kristin Chenoweth and Rob Fisher
--w/m: Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick
--© Alley Music Corp./ Appletree Music Company
COME ON RING THOSE BELLS
--Kristin Chenoweth, Rob Fisher and Guy's All-Star Shoe Band
--w/m: Andrew Culverwell
--© 1976 Manna Music, Inc. ARR UBP of Manna Music, Inc.
GUY NOIR THEME
Guy's All-Star Shoe Band
--w: Garrison Keillor
--m: Richard Dworsky
--© 1995 Keillor/ Dworsky
GUY NOIR script underscore
--Richard Dworsky
--m: Richard Dworsky
--© 2006 Richard Dworsky (BMI)
POOR LITTLE JESUS
--Odetta and Seth Farber
--w/m: traditional
O JERUSALEM
--Odetta and Seth Farber, with Garrison Keillor, Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and live audience
--w/m: traditional
JINGLE BELL ROCK (Intermission)
--Guy's All-Star Shoe Band
--w/m: J. Beal and J. Boothe
--© Chappell & Co.
GINGERBREAD (WE THREE KINGS)
--Garrison Keillor and Guy's All-Star Shoe Band
--m: traditional
--w: Garrison Keillor © 2006 Garrison Keillor
SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN
--Garrison Keillor and Richard Dworsky
--w/m: Haven Gillespie, J. Fred Coots
--© 1934 Leo Feist Inc.
--new words: Garrison Keillor
--© 2002/ 2006 Garrison Keillor
JOY TO THE WORLD, ESPECIALLY TO OUT-OF-WORK MUSICIANS: Suite for six gig-impaired instruments
--Diva Goodfriend-Koven, Melanie Feld, John Moses, Harry Searing, Andy Stein and Arnie Kinsella
--w/m: traditional
--arranged by Peter Schickele
CATCHUP script underscore
--Richard Dworsky
--m: Richard Dworsky
--© 2006 Richard Dworsky
CATCHUP THEME
--Richard Dworsky
--m: Richard Dworsky
--w: Garrison Keillor
--© Garrison Keillor and Richard Dworsky (BMI)
POLISH SONGS: PRZYBIEZELI DO BETLEJEM (SHEPHERDS CAME TO BETHLEHEM)/ DZIASIAJ W BETLEJEM (O COME REJOICING)/ GDY SIE CHRYSTUS RODZI (CHRIST IS BORN THIS EVENING)
--Walter Bobbie, Guy's All Star Shoe Band, Elizabeth Farnum, Hai-Ting Chinn, Scott Williamson, Peter Schickele
--w/m: traditional
GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN
--Odetta, Seth Farber, Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, live audience
--w/m: traditional
O HOLY NIGHT
--Garrison Keillor, Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, Elizabeth Farnum, Hai-Ting Chinn, Scott Williamson, Peter Schickele
--w: Placide Cappeau de Roquemaure, translated by John S. Dwight
--m: Adolphe Charles Adams
SILENT NIGHT
--Garrison Keillor, Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, live audience
--w: Joseph Mohr
--m: Franz Gruber
In Garrison Keillor's latest book, Lake Wobegon native Margie Krebsbach dreams up the idea of a trip to Rome, hoping to get her husband Carl to make love to her -- he's been sleeping across the hall and she has no idea why. She finds a patriotic purpose for the journey. A Lake Wobegon boy, Gussie Norlander, died in the liberation of Rome, 1944, and his grave, according to his elderly brother, Norbert, is in a neglected weed patch near the Colosseum...
It's a story of Wobegonians in a strange land, telling stories of kinship and self-revelation -- all delivered with Keillor's trademark humor.
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From Garrison Keillor:
--When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorize Shakespeare--s Sonnet No. 29, --When in disgrace with fortune and men--s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state-- for English class, and fifty years later, that poem is still in my head. Algebra got washed away, and geometry and most of biology, but those lines about the redemptive power of love in the face of shame are still here behind my eyeballs, more permanent than my own teeth. The sonnet is a durable good. These 77 of mine include sonnets of praise, some erotic, some lamentations, some street sonnets and a 12-sonnet cycle of months. If anything here offends, I beg your pardon, I come in peace, I depart in gratitude.--