When the rabbi danced.

Principally Jewish folk songs performed by mixed chorus, in part with instrumental acc.

Principally arr. by Robert De Cormier; some selections arr. by Viktor Ullmann, Gideon Klein, Zigmund Schul, and Gene Glickman.

Compact disc.

Program notes in English and texts in Yiddish or Hebrew with English translations ([28] p. : ill., port.) inserted in container.

Un az der rebe zingt = When the rabbi sings (3:39) -- Rozhinkes mit mandlen = Raisins and almonds / music and text, Abraham Goldfaden (3:11) -- Partizaner-libe = Partisan love (3:40) -- Chassidisch = Chassidish song (1:54) -- Bachuri le'an tisa = My boy, where will you go? (1:55) -- Tavo-u el ha'arets = When you come to the land (1:47) -- A geneyve! = A robbery! (2:19) -- Sha shtil = Sh! be still (2:10) -- Der rebe Elimelekh = The rabbi Elimelech (2:36) -- Dortn, dortn = Far off across the water (2:45) -- Tumbalalayka = Play, balalaika (2:45) -- Du zolst nit geyn = Do not go with other gossipy girls (1:31) -- Troyer past nisht unzer ponim = Sorrow does not suit our faces / text, Itsik Fefer ; music, Elya Taytelboym (2:22) -- Eliahu hanavi = Elijah, the prophet (1:42) -- Nit ayer mazl = It's not your fate / text and music, Shaul Shenker (3:57) -- Yome, Yome = What does the maiden want (1:51) -- Di mezinke = The youngest daughter (2:29) -- S'brent = It's burning! / text, Mordekhai Gibertig (3:30) -- Hala yarden = Flow on, Jordan (1:35) -- A gib zhe khaver = Give me a smoke, my friend / text, Ilya Frankel and Shmerke Kaczerginski ; music, Modest Tabchnikov (3;17) -- S'dremlen feygl = Birds are sleeping on the branches / text, Lea Rudnitsky ; music, Gerbirtig, Yampolsky (3:11) -- Tsum besern morgn = Toward a better tomorrow / text, Kasriel Brodo (2:14) -- Shtil di nakht = The night is silent / Hersh Glik (2:27) -- Yiddishe brigades = Jewish brigades (3:25) -- Zog nit keynmol = Never say that you are on the last road / text, Hersh Glik ; music adapted from Pokras (2:44).

Counterpoint ; instrumental ensemble (Karen Kevra, flute ; Katherine Matasy, clarinet, accordion ; Gene White, Jr., mandolin, violin ; John Muratore, guitar ; Don Baldini, bass ; Tom Toner, percussion) ; Robert De Cormier, conductor.

Recorded at UVM Recital Hall, Burlington, Vt., July 26-27, 2003.

Sung in Yiddish or Hebrew.