I Lift My Lamp Jacqueline Schwab

• Traditional: For Ireland I’d Not Tell Her Name (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano):
• 1 Traditional: For Ireland I’d Not Tell Her Name (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano) 04:54
• The Blarney Pilgrim (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano):
• 2 Traditional: The Blarney Pilgrim (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano) 02:04
• Shieling in the Braes of Rannoch (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano):
• 3 Traditional: Shieling in the Braes of Rannoch (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano) 03:54
• William Marshall (1144 - 1219): The Marchioness of Huntly (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano):
• 4 Marshall: The Marchioness of Huntly (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano) 02:31
• Traditional: Miss Dumbreck (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano):
• 5 Traditional: Miss Dumbreck (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano) 01:23
• Robert Mackintosh (1745 - 1807): Miss Stevenson’s Reel (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano):
• 6 Mackintosh: Miss Stevenson’s Reel (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano) 01:22
• Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957): Finlandia Hymn, Op. 26 (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano):
• 7 Sibelius: Finlandia Hymn, Op. 26 (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano) 03:12
• Traditional: Vals efter Soling Anders (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano):
• 8 Traditional: Vals efter Soling Anders (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano) 01:54
• Tadeusz Kwieciński (1903 - 1960): Ada’s Kujawiak No. 1 (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano):
• 9 Kwieciński: Ada’s Kujawiak No. 1 (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano) 04:33
• Mark Markovich Warshawsky (1848 - 1907): Oyfn Pripetshik (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano):
• 10 Warshawsky: Oyfn Pripetshik (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano) 04:14
• Traditional: Trăgnala Rumjana (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano):
• 11 Traditional: Trăgnala Rumjana (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano) 02:57
• Alfred Pasquale Zambarano (1885 - 1970): Neapolitan Tarantella (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano):
• 12 Zambarano: Neapolitan Tarantella (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano) 02:28
• Traditional: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano):
• 13 Traditional: Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano) 05:06
• Sebastián Yradier (1809 - 1865): La Paloma (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano):
• 14 Yradier: La Paloma (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano) 06:10
• Jack Norworth (1879 - 1959), Albert Von Tilzer (1878 - 1956): Take Me Out to the Ballgame (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano):
• 15 Norworth, Tilzer: Take Me Out to the Ballgame (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano) 01:05
• Felix Arndt (1889 - 1918): Nola:
• 16 Arndt: Nola 03:16
• Harold Arlen (1905 - 1986): I Had Myself a True Love (Arr. for Piano):
• 17 Arlen: I Had Myself a True Love (Arr. for Piano) 04:42
• Ernesto Nazareth (1863 - 1934): Carioca:
• 18 Nazareth: Carioca 05:34
• Juan Miguel Sepúlveda: El Copihue Rojo (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano):
• 19 Sepúlveda: El Copihue Rojo (Arr. J. Schwab for Piano) 03:19
• Total Runtime 01:04:38

Info for I Lift My Lamp

“Let me invite you to listen to this potpourri of favorite musical stories spotlighting some of the rich contributions from American immigrants and other countries. Laden with cultural pride, they celebrate people like my Scottish friend Stuart, who capped a fulfilling international career with retirement to Cape Cod but never forgot his roots–and would sing the old song I Belong to Glasgow, at the drop of a hat. I Lift My Lamp pays musical homage to his Glaswegian pride—and the pride of so many other immigrants for their homelands. In a conversation between old and new, it honors living, community traditions not set in stone. Influenced by my work with storyteller Ken Burns, I feature vintage immigrant songs and dances from my Pittsburgh childhood, later life in Boston and travels–my own arrangements of American standards, lesser-known gems, and imported and homegrown creations, from countryside to Tin Pan Alley...” (Jacqueline Schwab)

Jacqueline Schwab, piano

Jacqueline Schwab
Jacqueline’s evocative playing infuses the oft-aired soundtracks of Ken Burns’ films, including his Grammy-winning Civil War, Baseball, Lewis and Clark, Mark Twain, The War and The National Parks, as well as the PBS documentary The Irish in America and others. She has performed at the White House for President Clinton, and she has accompanied Scottish singer Jean Redpath on public radio’s A Prairie Home Companion and on CBS’ Late Show with David Letterman. She recently collaborated with The American Pops Orchestra, for their Oct. 29, 2022 American Roots PBS special. As a solo pianist, she has performed vintage American music in almost every State of the Union. In concert, Jacqueline enjoys sharing her wide repertoire of familiar old tunes, what Mark Twain would have called “remembrancers,” and speaking about the power of music to transport us into our own past and on to new horizons.

She spins musical stories out of the multicultural strands woven into the American quilt. Her playing can evoke an 18th-c. ballroom, an Appalachian ballad on the front porch, a Civil War-era parlor, a gospel church, a ragtime piano bar and a bluesy nightclub—as well as a fin-du-siecle Parisian café, a 1915 Brazilian dance hall, a ceilidh in the Scottish Highlands, a Jewish wedding and more. She transforms this music with her personal touch. Her from-the-heart music making stems from her childhood in Pittsburgh’s “melting pot” and later life in Boston. Her uptempo tunes lilt from her decades of playing with the Bare Necessities quartet and others for many genres of dancing. Her reflective solo pieces resonate with heart and breath.

Jacqueline has taught piano, improvisation and dance music at workshops throughout the United States. She also enjoys working with individual students, with whom she collaborates to grow their listening and playing skills, their musical understanding, and, most of all, their confidence and passion for playing.

She has released four solo albums and has a fifth scheduled for 2022. She graduated from the New England Conservatory in Boston, majoring in piano improvisation. After years of living on Cape Cod, she has recently moved back to Boston.

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