Steven Rosen & Richard Goering
A PINCH OF OY, A DASH OF AHH! A BISSEL KRECTSER A BISSEL KVELLER
Favorite Jewish Music from my life. Klezmer,Classical, and Israeli folk. A wonderful color of sound created by the mix of guitar and the viola.
Steven Rosen
St. Paul, Minnesota native Steven Rosen attended the Cleveland Institute of Music and is a former principal violist and soloist with the Toledo Symphony. He was a member of both the Netherlands Rotterdam Philharmonic and the Israel Chamber Orchestra. He has participated in the Blossom and Aspen music festivals. His studies have been with Abraham Skernick, Robert Vernon, and Salvatore Venitelli. In May of 1982 Steven joined the Cincinnati Symphony and has appeared as soloist with that orchestra.
Mr. Rosen is an active solo and chamber player, performing regularly with the CSO Chamber Players and recitals in the area. He has played the Kol Nidre at Beth Adam on Erev Yom Kippur since the early 1980’s and is currently bringing some of his other favorites to the temple for other holidays. He has recorded for Bay Cities Records as the violist with the Korngold Quartet.
Mr. Rosen’s wife Karen is a speech pathologist and they have three children.
Richard Goering
Guitarist Richard Goering was moved to play the guitar after seeing the Beatles’ first television performances. Two years later, after watching films of Andres Segovia master classes in Santiago de Compostela, he began to study classical guitar.
Comfortable in many venues, Richard Goering has performed to enthusiastic responses in outreach settings and on concert series both in the U.S. and internationally, solo and with other instrumentalists.
Believing that now is the best time to be a guitarist, his arrangements and improvisations on the music of Ellington, Luis Bonfa, the Beatles, and Clapton and his passion move audiences.
About the music
In the subtitle “a bissel krectser, a bissel kveller”, a “krechtser” is a Blues singer, a moaner of sorts and a
“Kveller” could be described as “not the bragging sort, more of a silent “kveller”.
Dance has long been used as an expression of celebration and festivity for the Jewish people. The Bulgar is a Balkan form and one of many such dances. The basic step employs the same footwork pattern as the now more famous Israeli Hora.
The English translation of the lyrics to Erev Shel Shoshanim “An Evening of Roses” are…
An evening of roses; let’s go out to the spice garden; myrrh, spices, and frankincense are as a carpet foryour feet.
Night falls slowly; the rose wind blows; come, I will whisper to you a song, quietly, a song of love.
Dawn; the dove is cooing. Your hair is full of dewdrops
Your mouth is like a rose unto the morning I will pick it for myself.
Credits
All guitar parts adapted from piano by Richard Goering.
Arrangements on Erev Shel Shoshanim, Heyser Bulgar, Raisins & Almonds, and Dodi Li by Steven Rosen
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Bill Gwynne at Group Effort Studios except for Kol Nidre recorded by
Jay Gilbert at Clear Channel Studios.
Photography, design, and layout by Bill Gwynne
Moods: Type: Instrumental