Songs written or composed
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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...
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…
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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
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...