Look up artist Berger, Glen

Name: Berger, Glen

Songs written or composed

Title: The Bottom Of The Well
Author: Berger, Glen
Genre: Literary Origin/Theater
Subject: Loss/Death/Love/Suicide/Wedding/Well
Origin: Alb L-052(b)
Additional song notes: Adapted from Peretz's story "A Night At The Old Marketplace". How Sheyndele met her death, wedding Itzhak instead of Nosn…

Recording:

On album: L-052(b) (Frank London's A Night In The Old Market Place)
Track ID: 33495
Tuba/Bass Caswell, Ron
Keyboards/Accordion Bailey, Art
Drums Alexander, Aaron
Guitar/Banjo/Mandolin Seabrook, Brandon
Vocal McKeown, Susan
First line: There's an angel that lies at the bottom of the well. Can you hear hear sighs…
Language: English
Style: Klezmer/Fusion/Jazz/Waltz
Length: 2:38
Title: What Is Man's Worth?
Author: Berger, Glen
Genre: Literary Origin/Theater
Subject: Death/Time/Worth
Origin: Alb L-052(b)
Additional song notes: Adapted from Peretz's story "A Night At The Old Marketplace".The yeshiva boy's head home…

Recording:

On album: L-052(b) (Frank London's A Night In The Old Market Place)
Track ID: 33496
Vocal Goldfeder, Karen
Vocal Jensen, Silvie
Vocal Hensrud, Matt
Vocal Hrycelak, Steve
Vocal Cluver, Martha
First line: Gone,gone he's gone gone, then gone gone, He's gone gone..Then what is man worth
Language: English
Style: Acapella/Change/Chorale
Length: 0:55
Title: Nosn's Vision
Author: Berger, Glen
Genre: Literary Origin/Theater
Subject: Loss/Yearning/Dream/Fidelity
Origin: Alb L-052(b)
Additional song notes: Adapted from Peretz's story "A Night At The Old Marketplace". Nosn imagines he sees the dead Sheyndele in the public house…

Recording:

On album: L-052(b) (Frank London's A Night In The Old Market Place)
Track ID: 33497
Guitar/Banjo/Mandolin Seabrook, Brandon
Drums Alexander, Aaron
Keyboards/Accordion Bailey, Art
Tuba/Bass Caswell, Ron
Vocal Wedren, Craig
Language: English
Style: Klezmer/Fusion/Jazz/Waltz
Length: 2:41
Title: Madness
Author: Berger, Glen
Genre: Literary Origin/Theater
Subject: Insanity/Faith/Delusion/Piety/Bear/Recluse
Origin: Alb L-052(b)
Additional song notes: Adapted from Peretz's story "A Night At The Old Marketplace". With his trained bear, the Recluse (formerly Itzhak) debates the badkhn…

Recording:

On album: L-052(b) (Frank London's A Night In The Old Market Place)
Track ID: 33498
Keyboards/Accordion Bailey, Art
Tuba/Bass Caswell, Ron
Vocal Narayan, Mann
Vocal Hrycelak, Steve
Guitar/Banjo/Mandolin Seabrook, Brandon
Drums Alexander, Aaron
Language: English
Style: Klezmer/Fusion/Jazz
Length: 4:33
Title: The Tale of The Drowned Klezmorim
Author: Berger, Glen
Genre: Literary Origin/Theater
Subject: Death/Drink/Klezmorim/Musicians/Sin/Punishment/Drowning
Origin: Alb L-052(b)
Additional song notes: Adapted from Peretz's story "A Night At The Old Marketplace". According to legend,the Gargoyle guarding the well in the middle of the marketplace once lured a band of musicians to theirdeaths.

Recording:

On album: L-052(b) (Frank London's A Night In The Old Market Place)
Track ID: 33499
Guitar/Banjo/Mandolin Seabrook, Brandon
Drums Alexander, Aaron
Keyboards/Accordion Bailey, Art
Tuba/Bass Caswell, Ron
Vocal Borts, Joanne
Language: English
Style: Klezmer/Fusion/Jazz
Length: 2:32
Title: A Word
Author: Berger, Glen
Genre: Literary Origin/Theater
Subject: Memory/Peace/Thought/Noise/Quiet/Change
Origin: Alb L-052(b)
Additional song notes: Adapted from Peretz's story "A Night At The Old Marketplace". Alone, the Badkhn tries toconcentrate…

Recording:

On album: L-052(b) (Frank London's A Night In The Old Market Place)
Track ID: 33500
Guitar/Banjo/Mandolin Seabrook, Brandon
Drums Alexander, Aaron
Keyboards/Accordion Bailey, Art
Tuba/Bass Caswell, Ron
Vocal Narayan, Mann
Language: English
Style: Concert
Length: 1:33
Title: One Prayer/One Lullaby
Author: Berger, Glen
Genre: Literary Origin/Theater
Subject: Respite/Peace/Night/Scheme
Origin: Alb L-052(b)
Additional song notes: Adapted from Peretz's story "A Night At The Old Marketplace". The townspeople say their bedtime prayers, and the badkhn waits for midnight…

Recording:

On album: L-052(b) (Frank London's A Night In The Old Market Place)
Track ID: 33501
Guitar/Banjo/Mandolin Seabrook, Brandon
Drums Alexander, Aaron
Keyboards/Accordion Bailey, Art
Tuba/Bass Caswell, Ron
Vocal Sklamberg, Lorin
Vocal Narayan, Mann
Language: English
Style: Concert
Length: 2:43
Title: Forever Yours
Author: Berger, Glen
Genre: Literary Origin/Theater
Subject: Statue/Gargoyle/Awake/Bargain
Origin: Alb L-052(b)
Additional song notes: Adapted from Peretz's story "A Night At The Old Marketplace". The Badkhn attempts awakening the old stone gargoyle so that spirits of purgatory can be summoned and Nosn and Sheydele can be reunited…

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On album: L-052(b) (Frank London's A Night In The Old Market Place)
Track ID: 33502
Guitar/Banjo/Mandolin Seabrook, Brandon
Tuba, Bass Caswell, Ron
Keyboards/Accordion Bailey, Art
Drums Alexander, Aaron
Vocal Narayan, Mann
Language: English
Style: Klezmer/Fusion/Jazz
Length: 3:19
Title: Meet Me In The Old Marketplace
Author: Berger, Glen
Genre: Literary Origin/Theater
Subject: Meeting/Marketplace/Purgatory/Suffering/God/Indifference
Origin: Alb L-052(b)
Additional song notes: Adapted from Peretz's story "A Night At The Old Marketplace". The Gargoyle summons the spirits of purgatory…

Recording:

On album: L-052(b) (Frank London's A Night In The Old Market Place)
Track ID: 33503
Guitar/Banjo/Mandolin Seabrook, Brandon
Drums Alexander, Aaron
Keyboards/Accordion Bailey, Art
Tuba/Bass Caswell, Ron
Vocal Hall, LaTanya
Language: English
Style: Klezmer/Fusion/Waltz
Length: 2:48
Title: The Ten Faces Of God
Author: Berger, Glen
Genre: Literary Origin/Theater
Subject: Mysticism/God/Fragments/Reunite/Mending/Riddle
Origin: Alb L-052(b)
Additional song notes: Adapted from Peretz's story "A Night At The Old Marketplace". The Recluse attempts to explain to the Badkhn and Nosn the riddle carved beneath the old stone gargoyle that guards the well...

Recording:

On album: L-052(b) (Frank London's A Night In The Old Market Place)
Track ID: 33504
Guitar/Banjo/Mandolin Seabrook, Brandon
Drums Alexander, Aaron
Keyboards/Accordion Bailey, Art
Tuba/Bass Caswell, Ron
Vocal Hrycelak, Steve
Vocal Hensrud, Matt
Vocal Jensen, Silvie
Vocal Goldfeder, Karen
Vocal Cluver, Martha
Language: English
Style: Fusion/Concert
Length: 2:55
Title: The Saga Of The Singers Of Brod
Author: Berger, Glen
Genre: Literary Origin/Theater
Subject: Singers/Plague/Burial/Punishment/Questioning/Epidemic
Origin: Alb L-052(b)
Additional song notes: Adapted from Peretz's story "A Night At The Old Marketplace". Dead singers from purgatory bemoan their fate…

Recording:

On album: L-052(b) (Frank London's A Night In The Old Market Place)
Track ID: 33505
Guitar/Banjo/Mandolin Seabrook, Brandon
Drums Alexander, Aaron
Keyboards/Accordion Bailey, Art
Tuba/Bass Caswell, Ron
Vocal Hrycelak, Steve
Vocal Hensrud, Matt
Vocal Jensen, Silvie
Vocal Goldfeder, Karen
Vocal Cluver, Martha
Language: English
Style: Klezmer/Fusion/Concert
Length: 2:48
Title: Call It Disappointing
Author: Berger, Glen
Genre: Literary Origin/Theater
Subject: Anger/DisappointmentWell/Spirit/Bride/Suicide
Origin: Alb-L-052(b)
Additional song notes: Adapted from Peretz's story "A Night At The Old Marketplace. The Badkhn vents at the Gargoyle for delivering upon purgatorial vaudvilles instead of the dead Sheyndele…

Recording:

On album: L-052(b) (Frank London's A Night In The Old Market Place)
Track ID: 33506
Guitar/Banjo/Mandolin Seabrook, Brandon
Drums Alexander, Aaron
Keyboards/Accordion Bailey, Art
Tuba/Bass Caswell, Ron
Vocal Narayan, Mann
Language: English
Style: Klezmer/Fusion/Jazz
Length: 1:50
Title: I'll make Such Wonders
Author: Berger, Glen
Genre: Literary Origin/Theater
Subject: Wonders/Miracles/Resurrection/Bride/Groom
Origin: Alb L-052(b)
Additional song notes: Adapted from Peretz's story "A Night At The Old Marketplace". As the drowned klezmorim play, the Gargoyle yields to the Badkn's demands and raises the corpses from the graveyard.

Recording:

On album: L-052(b) (Frank London's A Night In The Old Market Place)
Track ID: 33507
Guitar/Banjo/Mandolin Seabrook, Brandon
Drums Alexander, Aaron
Keyboards/Accordion Bailey, Art
Tuba/Bass Caswell, Ron
Vocal Hrycelak, Steve
Vocal Hensrud, Matt
Vocal Jensen, Silvie
Vocal Goldfeder, Karen
Vocal Cluver, Martha
Language: English
Style: Fusion/Jazz/Concert
Length: 5:28
Title: It Doesn't Matter
Author: Berger, Glen
Genre: Literary Origin/Theater
Subject: Memory/Separation/Reunited/Existence/Time
Origin: Alb L-052(b)
Additional song notes: Adapted from Peretz's story "A Night At The Old Marketplace". Nosn reunites with his dead love Sheydele before an unholy wedding.

Recording:

On album: L-052(b) (Frank London's A Night In The Old Market Place)
Track ID: 33509
Guitar/Banjo/Mandolin Seabrook, Brandon
Drums Alexander, Aaron
Keyboards/Accordion Bailey, Art
Tuba/Bass Caswell, Ron
Vocal Sklamberg, Lorin
Vocal Williams, Jane Kelly
Language: English
Style: Fusion/Jazz/Blues/Concert/Duet
Length: 3:23
Title: Is There Room On Earth?
Author: Berger, Glen
Genre: Literary Origin/Theater
Subject: Love/Death/Burial/Living//Place/Messiah
Origin: Alb L-052(b)
Additional song notes: Adapted from Peretz's story "A Night At The Old Marketplace". The dead sing a wedding song.

Recording:

On album: L-052(b) (Frank London's A Night In The Old Market Place)
Track ID: 33510
Guitar/Banjo/Mandolin Seabrook, Brandon
Drums Alexander, Aaron
Keyboards/Accordion Bailey, Art
Tuba/Bass Caswell, Ron
Vocal Hrycelak, Steve
Vocal Hensrud, Matt
Vocal Jensen, Silvie
Vocal Goldfeder, Karen
Vocal Cluver, Martha
Language: English
Style: Klezmer/Fusion
Length: 2:35
Title: Desire It
Author: Berger, Glen
Genre: Literary Origin/Theater
Subject: Dance/Eternal Life/Death
Origin: Alb L-052(b)
Additional song notes: Adapted from Peretz's story "A Night At The Old Marketplace". Trying to keep the Dead from returning to their graves, the Badkhn whips them into a dancing frenzy.

Recording:

On album: L-052(b) (Frank London's A Night In The Old Market Place)
Track ID: 33511
Guitar/Banjo/Mandolin Seabrook, Brandon
Drums Alexander, Aaron
Keyboards/Accordion Bailey, Art
Tuba/Bass Caswell, Ron
Vocal Narayan, Mann
Language: English
Style: Klezmer/FusionJazz
Length: 2:21
Title: God's Reply To Job
Author: Berger, Glen
Genre: Literary Origin/Theater
Subject: God/Job/Power/Creation
Origin: Alb L-052(b)
Additional song notes: Adapted from Peretz's story "A Night At The Old Marketplace". By way of the Book of Job, the Recluse rebukes Nosn and the Badkhn for their blasphemies…

Recording:

On album: L-052(b) (Frank London's A Night In The Old Market Place)
Track ID: 33512
Guitar/Banjo/Mandolin Seabrook, Brandon
Drums Alexander, Aaron
Keyboards/Accordion Bailey, Art
Tuba/Bass Caswell, Ron
Vocal Hrycelak, Steve
Vocal Hensrud, Matt
Vocal Jensen, Silvie
Vocal Goldfeder, Karen
Vocal Cluver, Martha
Language: English
Length: 3:13
Title: Perhaps I Went Too Far
Author: Berger, Glen
Genre: Literary Origin/Theater
Subject: Extremes/Drifting/Fate/Defeat/Knowledge
Origin: Alb L-052(b)
Additional song notes: Adapted from Peretz's story "A Night At The Old Marketplace". Nosn has died. The recluse has headed back to the hills. The dead have returned to their graves. The badkhn has battled the weathervane rooster on top of the synagogue and lost. Now dawn approaches for the Badkhn…

Recording:

On album: L-052(b) (Frank London's A Night In The Old Market Place)
Track ID: 33513
Guitar/Banjo/Mandolin Seabrook, Brandon
Drums Alexander, Aaron
Keyboards/Accordion Bailey, Art
Tuba/Bass Caswell, Ron
Vocal Narayan, Mann
Language: English
Length: 2:35
Title: All Is Vanity
Author: Berger, Glen
Genre: Literary Origin/Theater
Subject: Everyman/Fate/Life/Struggle/Unknown
Origin: Alb L-052(b)
Additional song notes: Adapted from Peretz's story "A Night At The Old Marketplace". Ah well. Better luck next time…

Recording:

On album: L-052(b) (Frank London's A Night In The Old Market Place)
Track ID: 33514
Guitar/Banjo/Mandolin Seabrook, Brandon
Drums Alexander, Aaron
Keyboards/Accordion Bailey, Art
Tuba/Bass Caswell, Ron
Vocal Hrycelak, Steve
Vocal Hensrud, Matt
Vocal Jensen, Silvie
Vocal Goldfeder, Karen
Vocal Cluver, Martha
Vocal Wedren, Craig
Vocal Narayan, Mann
Vocal Hrycelak, Steve
Vocal Borts, Joanne
Vocal Sklamberg, Lorin
Vocal Williams, Jane Kelly
Vocal They Might Be Giants
Language: English
Length: 1:05
Title: A Tavern In Pinsk
Author: Berger, Glen
Genre: Literary Origin/Theater
Subject: Tavern/Drink/Corpses/Deliverence/Meshiakh/Waiting
Origin: Alb L-052(b)
Additional song notes: Based upon Peretz's story "A Night At the Old Marketplace". Closing time in the public house… Dring up, gentlemen...

Recording:

On album: L-052(b) (Frank London's A Night In The Old Market Place)
Track ID: 33515
Guitar/Banjo/Mandolin Seabrook, Brandon
Drums Alexander, Aaron
Keyboards/Accordion Bailey, Art
Tuba/Bass Caswell, Ron
Vocal They Might Be Giants
Language: English
Length: 0:54

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