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Shirim

Pincus and the Pig

By Shirim

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2005
Track listing: Introduction; Did You Hear of Boychick Pincus?; The Duck and the Birdie; Suddenly Pincus Spied a Cat; Zeyde Comes Out; No Sooner had They Disappeared Inside; So Now, This is How Things Stood; Fly Down and Tease the Pig; Suddenly Cossacks Sprang Out of the Woods; Now, Imagine the Triumphant Procession; And If You Listen Very Carefully...; Scheherezade (Rimsky-Korsakov); Waltz (Brahms); Gnoissienne No. 4 (Satie); Mazzesinsel Strut (Mahler)

Shirim: Pincus and the Pig

by Elliott Simon
May 6, 2005

Complete with sticker sheet and illustrated story book, Pincus and the Pig is a joyfully Jewish take on every child's introduction to the symphony orchestra and its instruments. It also serves here as an apt family entrée to the wonderful catalogue of the Boston based klezmer ensemble Shirim. At the forefront of the musical evolution that ...

Pincus And The Pig: A Klezmer Tale

By Shirim

Label: Tzadik
Released: 2004
Track listing: Introduction; Did You Hear of Boychick Pincus?; The Duck and the Birdie; Suddenly Pincus Spied a Cat; Zeyde Comes Out; No Sooner had They Disappeared Inside; So Now, This is How Things Stood; Fly Down and Tease the Pig; Suddenly Cossacks Sprang Out of the Woods; Now, Imagine the Triumphant Procession; And If You Listen Very Carefully...; Scheherezade (Rimsky-Korsakov); Waltz (Brahms); Gnoissienne No. 4 (Satie); Mazzesinsel Strut (Mahler)

Shirim: Pincus and the Pig: A Klezmer Tale

by Eyal Hareuveni
December 23, 2004

This is the first children's disc in the most varied Radical Jewish Culture series of John Zorn's Tzadik label. There were rumors last year of a new series under the ever-evolving Tzadik label that will offer children's discs, for which keyboard player and composer Wayne Horvitz and his partner, singer/songwriter and pianist Robin Holcomb, as well ...