KLEZMER FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (DIGITAL DOWNLOAD) MUSICAL CONCEPTS

Klezmer Fiddler on the Roof

Music by Jerry Bock • Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick

Tevye – Miles Phillips
Golde – Sarah Downs
Tzeitel – Stacie Perlman
Hodel – Christine Hope
Perchik – Rob Langeder
Chava – Denise Devlin
Lazar Wolf – Chuck Karel
Yente – Jillian Hemann
Motel – Jason Wynn
Grandma Tzeitel – Marissa Rosen
Frump-Sarah – Liz Donathan
The Rabbi – Paul Malamphy
Fyedka – Michael Hopewell
and The Stage Stars Chorus

Klezmer Fiddler on the Roof Band
Jeremy Brown, violin • Mitch Kamen, clarinets, flute
Christina Crowder, accordion • Barry Schwab, trumpet

Arranged and conducted by Stephen Pearl

“A fiddler on the roof. Sounds crazy no?”
These eight words open the first scene of Fiddler on the Roof, one of the greatest works of the American musical theatre, a show that has captivated the world, since it first opened on Broadway in September, 1964 and established composer Jerry Bock and lyricist Sheldon Harnick as two leading lights of a new generation of theater music revolutionaries that included Stephen Sondheim, Jule Styne, Charles Strouse, and Jerry Herman.
Set in Eastern Russia in 1905, the show has been played by an orchestra of various sizes – but if you lived in the village of Anatevka, you would have been listening to a small group of musicians known as Klezmorim who played what we call today traditional Yiddish music.
Producer Stephen Pearl re-orchestrated and recorded a version of Fiddler on The Roof with a Klezmer Band for his Stage Stars label, which features original and unique releases of major Broadway musicals of the present and past in two-disc sets – one with singers, and the other an orchestral disc that aspiring artists and fans theater music can sing along to. This release ALSO features the instrumental-only “karaoke” program, which brings a new dimension to the music of this Broadway classic!

1 Tradition (Tevye, Company) 7:41
2 Matchmaker (Tzeitel, Hodel and Chava) 3:58
3 If I Were a Rich Man (Tevye) 5:25
4 Sabbath Prayer (Tevye, Golde, Company) 2:52
5 To Life (Tevye, Lazar Wolf, Russian soloist and Men) 6:10
6 Tevye’s Monologue (Tevye) 2:53
7 Miracle of Miracles (Motel) 2:08
8 Tevye’s Dream (Tevye, Golde, Grandma Tzeitel, Rabbi,
Fruma-Sarah and Company) 6:57
9 Sunrise Sunset and Wedding Dance (Tevye, Golde, Perchik,
Hodel and Company) 7:43
10 Now I Have Everything (Perchik and Hodel) 2:21
11 Tevye’s Rebuttal (Tevye) 3:19
12 Do You Love Me (Tevye and Golde) 2:56
13 The Rumor (Yente and Villagers) 2:39
14 Far From the Home I Love (Hodel) 3:29
15 Chavaleh (Tevye) 3:14
16 Anatevka (The Company) 2:39

17 Tradition (karaoke version) 7:41
18 Matchmaker (karaoke version) 3:54
19 If I Were a Rich Man (karaoke version) 5:25
20 Sabbath Prayer (karaoke version) 2:52
21 To Life (karaoke version) 5:54
22 Tevye’s Monologue (karaoke version) 2:36
23 Miracle of Miracles (karaoke version) 2:08
24 Tevye’s Dream (karaoke version) 6:16
25 Sunrise Sunset and Wedding Dance (karaoke version) 7:43
26 Now I Have Everything (karaoke version) 2:04
27 Tevye’s Rebuttal (karaoke version) 2:37
28 Do You Love Me (karaoke version) 2:56
29 The Rumor (karaoke version) 2:38
30 Far From the Home I Love (karaoke version) 3:29
31 Chavaleh (Little Bird) (karaoke version) 3:14
32 Anatevka (karaoke version) 2:39