Tracklist

Part 1
1	Narrator: "It Always Starts..."	2:18
2	Fiddler's March	3:17
3	Scene 1. Narrator: "Her Name Is Beatrice Connors."	0:29
4	Fiddler's Soul	3:12
5	Narrator: "She's Floating On A Dream Cloud..."	4:11
6	Fiddler's March Reprise	1:31
7	Scene 2. Narrator: "Now That He Has Her Going..."	3:54
8	Reprise 2 (End Of March)	0:34
9	Scene 3. Narrator: "Beatrice Connors Is Now..."	2:37
10	Pastorale	4:18
11	Devil: "More Words On Fame"	3:37
12	Fiddler's Soul Reprise	1:10
Part 2
13	Scene 4. Narrator: "Keeping One Hundred Dollars..."	4:09
14	Happy March	2:21
15	Scene 5. Narrator: "The Illness Of The Land..."	2:40
16	Little Concert Piece	3:04
17	Narrator: "Musicians, You Must Play..."	0:43
18	Tango, Waltz, Ragtime	7:27
19	Narrator: "The Music Causes The Savior..."	1:04
20	Devil's Dance	2:10
21	Narrator: "The Music Was Too Strong..."	0:34
22	Little Chorale	0:41
23	The Devil's Song (BZB Speaks)	0:58
24	The Great Chorale	3:49
25	Narrator: "But Beatrice Connors..."	4:20
26	The Blues On Top	2:25

Credits

• Art Direction – Josephine DiDonato
• Artwork By [Paintings] – Drue Katoaka
• Bass – Edgar Meyer
• Bassoon – Milan Turkovic
• Clarinet – David Shifrin
• Engineer – Richard King
• Engineer [Editing] – Robert B. Wolff*
• Music By, Other [Story By], Trumpet – Wynton Marsalis
• Narrator – André De Shields*
• Percussion – Stefon Harris
• Producer – Steven Epstein*
• Supervised By [Technical] – Jeff B. Francis*
• Trombone – David Taylor
• Violin – Ida Kavafian
• Words By – Stanley Crouch

Notes

A Fiddler's Tale was commissioned by The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center for MARSALIS/STRAVINSKY: a joint project of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Jazz At Lincoln Center. It was premiered on April 23, 1998 at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The orchestral suite erion of "A Fiddler's Tale" without narration is also available from Sony Classical (SK 60979).
Recorded at Giandomenico Studios, Collingswood, NJ. on May 11-13, 1998. Narration recorded at Clinton Recording Studios, New York City on January 4, 1999.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 074646076521