Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Indecent: Original Broadway Cast Recording


INDECENT: ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST RECORDING
Original Score by Lisa Gutkin and Aaron Halva
Yellow Sound Label

(This review was published in the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin.)

Paula Vogel’s play, “Indecent,” which had a Tony Award-winning run on Broadway in 2017, tells the story of Yiddish playwright Sholem Asch’s controversial – especially for the times – play, “The God of Vengeance,” which was produced successfully in both Europe and New York, where it played for several years on the Lower East Side. In 1923, an English-language version opened and closed in one night in New York when the entire cast was arrested on obscenity charges.

Central to the Broadway production of “Indecent” is the musical score created by violinist Lisa Gutkin, well known in klezmer music circles as a member of the Klezmatics, and accordionist-pianist Aaron Halva. The pair were joined onstage by clarinetist Matt Darriau, also of the Klezmatics. While a few of the pieces in the score, including “Ale Brider” and “Bei Mir Bistu Shein,” are familiar, most of the numbers were composed by Gutkin and Halva specifically for the show.

You don’t really have to know the plot of the play to appreciate this music. Whether instrumentals featuring the band or songs with vocals by the production’s actors, the music will appeal to anyone who loves traditional klezmer or Yiddish theatre music.


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Saturday, March 30, 2019

Saturday Morning with Mike Regenstreif – CKCU – Saturday March 30, 2019


Saturday Morning is an eclectic roots-oriented program on CKCU in Ottawa heard live on Saturday mornings from 7 until 10 am (Eastern time) and then available for on-demand streaming. I am one of the four rotating hosts of Saturday Morning and base my programming on the Folk Roots/Folk Branches format I developed at CKUT in Montreal.

CKCU can be heard at 93.1 FM in Ottawa and http://www.ckcufm.com/ on the web.

This episode of Saturday Morning can be streamed on-demand at … https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/128/42229.html



Fraser & Girard- My Name is Carol
Fraser & Girard (Fraser & Girard)

Ken Tizzard- House
Jessica Pearson & The East Wind- Heave Away
Grave and Garden Songs (Jessica Pearson & The East Wind)
Alana & Leigh Cline- Slip Jigs: Whinny Hills of Leitrim/Ryan’s/Humours of Whiskey
Alana & Leigh Cline (Scimitar)

The Village Dudes- Another Time and Place
Another Time and Place (Blue Flute Music)
Dave Van Ronk- Gaslight Rag
Going Back to Brooklyn (HighTone)
Tom Russell- T-Bone Steak and Spanish Wine
Ian Hanchet- I’ll Fly Away
New Life (Ian Hanchet)

Our Native Daughters (Allison Russell w/Rhiannon Giddens & Leyla McCalla)- Quasheba, Quasheba
Songs of Our Native Daughters (Smithsonian Folkways)
Kaia Kater- Heavenly Track
Grenades (Smithsonian Folkways)
Mother Banjo- Trust Your Boots
Eyes on the Sky (So Low Recordings)

Danny Schmidt- Last Man Standing
Standard Deviation (Live Once)
Kate Weekes- Poet Friend
Taken By Surprise (Artiste Extrordinaire Originals)
The Confabulation- Precious Little Solves the Riddle
Tunnels and Visions (Woodhead Music)

Ben Caplan- Birds with Broken Wings
Birds with Broken Wings (Coalition)
SONiA dissapear fear- Eleh Chamda Libi
By My Silence (Disappear Records)
Lisa Gutkin, Aaron Halva & Company- Suitcase Song: Ich hab’ noch einen koffer in Berlin

Extended Feature: Songs of Guy Clark – The next 16 songs were written or co-written by Guy Clark.

Doug Cox & Sam Hurrie- Old Friends
Old Friends (Black Hen)
Jay Ungar & Molly Mason- Homegrown Tomatoes
Relax Your Mind (Angel)
Johnny Cash- Let Him Roll
Johnny Cash is Coming to Town (Mercury)
Guy Clark- That Old Time Feeling
Keepers: A Live Recording (Sugar Hill)

Steve Earle & The Dukes- Sis Draper
Guy (New West)
Asleep at the Wheel- Blowin’ Like a Bandit
10 (Epic)
Emmylou Harris- New Cut Road
Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town (Warner Bros./Rhino)
Guy Clark- The Guitar

Eric Bibb w/Martin Simpson- The Cape
Friends (Telarc)
Gove Scrivenor- Boats to Build
Shine On (Compass)
Bill & Bonnie Hearne- L.A. Freeway
Watching Life Through a Windshield (Back Porch)
Guy Clark- The Randall Knife

Nanci Griffith, Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Jerry Jeff Walker, Steve Earle & Eric Taylor- Desperadoes Waiting for a Train
Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) (Elektra)
Bill Staines- Lone Star Hotel Café
Old Dogs (Red House) 
Bettysoo & Doug Cox- Dublin Blues
Across the Borderline: Lie to Me (Borderline Talent)
Guy Clark- My Favorite Picture of You

Suzie Vinnick- Find Some Freedom
Shake the Love Around (Suzie Vinnick)
Harrison Kennedy- Who U Tellin’?
Who U Tellin’? (Electro-Fi)
Michael Jerome Browne- Somebody Have Mercy
That’s Where It’s At! (Borealis)
Tim O’Brien Band- Diggin’ My Potatoes
Tim O’Brien Band (Howdy Skies)
Andy Statman- Statman Romp
Monroe Bus (Shefa)

Maria Dunn- Whiskey Evening
For a Song (Distant Whisper Music)
Ian & Sylvia- Nancy Whiskey
Early Morning Rain (Vanguard)
Vivian Nesbitt & John Dillon- The Whiskey Ring and the Railroad Trust
The Songs of Mother Jones: A Musical by Si Kahn (MotherJonesInHeaven.com)
Doug McArthur- Whiskey in the Jar
The Horses of the Sea: A Personal Exploration of Ireland (dougimac.com)
Allison de Groot and Tatiana Hargreaves- Farewell Whiskey
Allison de Groot and Tatiana Hargreaves (Free Dirt)

I’ll be hosting Saturday Morning next on April 27.

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