Sheet Music Now you can sing and play Jennie and David's original cabaret songs! Check out the Virtual Songbook for descriptions, lyrics, and samples. $5.00/song in PDF format. A Brooklyn Lullaby Christmas In The Doghouse Clarity, Meaning, and Sense The Embryos' Lament Friends Going Nowhere Fast He Drives Me Hello In There Hot How I Learned To Ride My Bike If I Were     I Want To Be a TV Chef Love Will Find You Make Yourself At Home Marriage My Man In The Moon Sea of People That Zegna Suit The Cosmic Perspective The Harper's Life The Old Family Nuke The Public Transportation Rag The Things That Make Us Sing     The Voyage of the Manatee Thirty-Two Bars This Old Year Thong Song Two Apples Waiting We've All Got To Live In This World... When My Dreams Come True Where Did It Go? Who Cares? Your Standard Standard $5 To get sheet music for these songs, please contact Jennie and David. Souvenir of Prague The Opening Number of Our Show
A concert with Jay Ungar, Molly Mason, Jennie Litt, David Alpher and special guest Rachel Handman, recorded live at the Chamber Arts Festival of Marbletown. $20/2-CD set. Disc 1 The Glendy Burk Nelly Was a Lady Stephen Foster Medley Beautiful Dreamer Nelly Bly President Lincoln's Hornpipe/ Devil's Dream Johnny Medley Tenting on the Old Camp Ground Hits of the '60's Disc 2: When It Rains, Sweetheart, When It Rains They Were All Out of Step but Jim Yiddisha Nightingale Russian Lullaby/ I Love a Piano Themes from the Harvest Home Suite Relax Your Mind The Lovers' Waltz Bob Wills Medley Bonaparte's Retreat Ashokan Farewell/ A Time for Farewell Simple Gifts (Shaker Song)		Americana This live concert features American acoustic duo Jay Ungar (violin, mandolin) and Molly Mason (bass, guitar) and cabaret duo Jennie Litt (vocals) and David Alpher (piano), along with special guest Rachel Handman (violin), in a celebration of the vernacular roots of American music. Folk songs, haunting Stephen Foster favorites, sassy Irving Berlin vaudeville tunes, West Texas swing, and Jay's beautiful Ashokan Farewell – with lyrics! Recorded during the Chamber Arts Festival of Marbletown's 2005 debut season. All proceeds from the CD benefit the Chamber Arts Festival of Marbletown. Disc 1 flash music player will overlay this. Disc 2 flash music player will overlay this. "Ungar is one of those low-key niche specialists, and his specialty is American string music, specifically, fiddle music from all over the country from the 18th century to the present. He also acknowledges and clearly appreciates all the national and ethnic music that was the spawning grounds for all the music we now call our own. They are the stock and ingredients for the great soup that is American vernacular music. A lot of this material is, in fact, so familiar, so in-our-bones, that we hardly pay it any real attention any more. Miraculously though, last Sunday such standards as "Camp Town Races," "My Old Kentucky Home," and even "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" (for pity's sake!) were performed with such deceiving simplicity, but with such intensity and sincerity that it seemed as if we were hearing them for the first time. "... the balance of this quartet was terrific ... "... The essence of this concert was about how music has been transformed over time by the great melting pot of the American experience... What really shone through was the simplicity of the original works, and the innocence, credibility, and dignity of which they spoke, and which were conveyed so convincingly by the performers. These ideas and experiences that of late have been confused, or worse co-opted, by the needs of politics were here in their original pure form – free of contamination. They persist as the expression of things that people deeply felt, and continue to feel. And that afternoon something really clicked between the performers and their material, and the audience ... on a national weekend of remembrance that produced a truly magical result. "If anyone told me I would be singing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" on Memorial Day weekend, in a church with ...300 of my neighbors, 99% of which I did not know, voices raised, tears on many cheeks, I would have said they were nuts! But there I was, and there we were, and we were moved. Talk about the transformative power of music!" —The Blue Stone Press
David Alpher CDs American Dreamer Songs of Stephen Foster American Reflections Five of Alpher's contemporary chamber works Classic Lullabyes 23 bedtime songs by music's beloved composers Flute Force: Eyewitness Garrison Keillor takes a break from A Prairie Home Companion to narrate David Alpher's "Land of the Farther Suns" Christòpheren Nomura: Never Broken David Alpher's "Song of Witness," plus two other chamber works, celebrate the the resiliency of the human spirit