Music
Tkhine for a person who is about to have a child
Melody and lyrics by Ariel Shapiro & Rachel Leader, with love & blessings for Helen & Matt in honor of their journey to parenthood. Yiddish lyrics adapted from the book Rokhl M’vako al Boneho (Rokhl Weeps For Her Children), a compilation of tkhines in Yiddish published in Vilna in 1910, with prayers attributed to Rokhl Esther bat Aviḥayil.
Mayo Street Arts in Portland, ME; January 2025.
A medley of traditional klezmer tunes: Behusher khosid (recorded by Romanian-Jewish tsimbl player Joseph Moscowitz in 1919 in NYC) and Galitzianer tants (recorded by clarinetist Sam Beckerman in 1924 in NY).
November 2023 at Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity in Florence, MA.
A medley of traditional klezmer tunes: Bughici Sirba — a Romanian line dance from the playing of Gheorghe Bughici, a violinist from a family of Romanian Jewish klezmer musicians, recorded by Itzik Schwartz in Iasi, Romania in the 1970s. And Galitzianer Sher – This tune was adapted from a fiddle tune from Czernovitz, Ukraine by Cookie Segelstein of Budowitz and Veretski Pass.
A Glezele Tey Duo, February 2023 at the Parlor Room in Nothampton, MA