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DECEMBERSONGS

__ rsa_belle Georges. voca_ls_· ---1

Stan Cramer. piano .

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music & lyrics by MAURY YESTONTranslation into French by BORIS BERGMAN

ISABELLE GEORGES, vocalsSTAN CRAMER, piano

1 Strange

December Songs

2 December Snow3 Where Are You Now?4 Please Let’s Not Even Say Hello5 When Your Love Is New6 Bookseller in the Rain7 My Grandmother’s Love Letters8 I Am Longing9 I Had a Dream About You10 By the River11 What a Relief

Orchestrated and conducted by LARRY HOCHMAN

Violin: MARTIN AGEEViola: MICHAEL NICHOLASCello: CLAY RUEDEFlute: BRIAN MILLEROboe d'Amore: ELLEN KATZ-WILMERClarinet: STEVE KENYONCeleste, Percussion: LARRY HOCHMAN

Décembre

12 La neige en décembre13 Où es tu14 Je t’en prie ne dis pas un mot15 L’amour voit le jour16 L’homme aux livres sous la pluie17 Tes lettres d’amour grand mère18 Je n’attends que d’être aimée19 J‘ai fait un rêve de nous20 La rivière21 Tu peux souffler

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Someone had to think of mating the great tradition of the Austro-German song cyclewith the great tradition of the American musical theatre. Certainly there have beenAmerican composers, from Blitzstein and Bernstein to William Bolcom, with the giftsand the interest to make fertile connections between the two genres. But December Songsis perhaps the first fruit of their association to be consciously, consistently, and explicitlydesigned as a large-scale meld of cycle form and music-theatre style.

It’s appropriate that the man who has done it should be Maury Yeston, for this is anAmerican composer with a background that cheerfully and successfully straddles the sometimes artificially separated concert and Broadway worlds. An inveterate crosser ofdemarcation lines, Yeston’s credits range from a cello concerto premiered by Yo-Yo Ma tomovie scores and award-winning musicals (such as Nine — an advance on Fellini’s 8 1/2 ,Grand Hotel, and Titanic). December Songs is not “based on” but rather “inspired by”Schubert’s Winter Journey, he explained while the work was still in course of composition:

Die Winterreise is the greatest song cycle ever written. It has a contempo-raneity that never goes away, and what I hope to do is to create a modernequivalent, to paraphrase the ethos of Die Winterreise, with its ambivalence,its major/minor duality, and its natural images that are metaphors of thecharacter’s internal state. Only instead of a young man in Austria, it’s awoman in New York — Central Park instead of the Austrian forest.

December Songs offers an experience at once new and timeless. The snow that chilledSchubert’s and Wilhelm Müller’s lover still falls around the lovers of today. The twin sunsof his nightmare still haunt those whom love deserts. Tears and ice and rivers and f lowersstill set the real and symbolic scene. And with vivid and delicate imagination, Yeston haspicked up these hints from his great predecessor, and translated them, not just intoEnglish, but into contemporary life.

— Bernard Jacobson

Since its first performances in 1991, when Andrea Marcovicci premiered the work atWeill Recital Hall as part of Carnegie Hall’s Centennial Season, December Songs hasenjoyed a rich life in the concert hall, on the cabaret stage, and in the recording studio. In 1997, soprano Harolyn Blackwell featured it on her album Strange Hurt; in 2002, it was reconceived as a ballet by Lynne Taylor-Corbett and presented at the CarolinaBallet . December Songs received premieres in 2004 in the United Kingdom, inGermany, and in France, the latter in a one-woman show presented at the Théâtre duRenard in Paris by Isabelle Georges, with Stan Cramer at the piano. Le Parisien foundher “pétillante, talentueuse, exquise” [“sparkling , talented, exquisite”] with “Une voix decrystal” [“a crystalline voice”], and Le Point raved, “Elle bouge et rie comme personne,comme si elle avait inspiré Aragon!” [“She moves and laughs like no one else, as if she hadinspired French resistance poet Louis Aragon!”] Maury Yeston subsequently attended aperformance and was moved to write a new song, “Strange,” for Isabelle to use as anencore. This new recording is drawn and expanded from those performances.

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1 strange

StrangeHow we met was very strangeI could not expect a change Could happen in my lifeBut, surpriseI looked into your eyesAnd from then I knewI would always love you…

Who Could have thought it could

be youI’d give all of myself toThe timing all was wrongYet, somehowIt doesn’t matter nowYou can break my heartI will always love you.

Always and moreYou broke throughMy core…

ThoughYou may never love me soToo much in the way, I knowWe never truly kissBut, you seeThat precious part of me You’ll forever own

I will alwaysI will alwaysI will alwaysLove you.

I cannot startClosing down my heart…

ThoughYou may never love me soToo much in the way, I knowBut do remember this…What will beThe deepest part of meWill be yours alone…I will alwaysI will alwaysI will alwaysLoveOnly you.

December Songs

2 december snow

Snow is falling all aroundFalling everywhereI walk through it all aloneYou’re no longer there.

April, May, two years agoCountless bitter tears agoI thought your love was trueI couldn’t tell it was notI didn’t know how…No one really knew me thenNo one knows me now.

How it covers all the ground

Every step I takeThose I ventured long agoThose I’ve yet to make

Things were so much differentthen

As they’ll never be againSpring in the park had begunEach tree reached out to the

sunEach leaf so green…Under this December snowThat’s no longer seen.

How we’d laugh when wewould meet

You were my best friendHow you made my life com-

pleteI thought that could not end

I had to believe it soLove, I thought, could never goYour hand in mine for a life-

timeWe would liveAs a million people do…

Oh don’t think I’ve forgotten yetI remember youNo, you are not forgotten yetI remember you.

Oh … I remember you.

3 where are you now?

On a subway platformA homeless person stops and

asks me for twenty centsI hardly see him at allI stare in spaceI’m adriftI lose my placeThere is just one thought my

mind will allow:Where are you now!

In every window I passReflected in the glass is a

vacant pair of eyes that sitIn a head that nods and talksAs the body dumbly walksAnd the question creases deep

in the brow:Where are you now!

Now it’s eight A.M., Are yougetting out of bed?

It’s eight-fifteen. Are you stand-ing by the stove?

It’s nine-o-five. Are you puttingon your tie?

Are your curtains still blowingIn your bedroom window?

Our bedroom window…

In every tick of the clockOn every city blockIn the roar of trains that pass

me by

On the platform here designedFor the loveless and their kindI’d forget you if I only knew

how…

Where are you now?Where are you now!

4 please let’s not even say hello

We meet by purest chanceAccidentUnintendedNo time to let our feelings

show…

Two people once attachedStill not matchedStill not mendedPlease let’s not even say hello.

Please let’s not stop and talkawhile

You never know, we might con-tinue talking…

But surely you’re still youI’m still meThat’s for certainI’m still no good at letting goSo…Please let’s not even say hello.

Please let’s not even say hello.

5 when your love is new

How I remember the momentwe met

When our love was newSimple affection is all that you

needWhen your love is new

He brings you roses and mystery starts

Life is a potpourri basket ofhearts

On the day your love comesalive.

Light every candle and bask inthe glow

When your love is newGo on a walk where there’s

nowhere to goEvery day…Fountains of music will run

through your headAs you lie daydreaming, warm

in your bedWith your love.

Trust in your feelings that wellin your soul

Trust that you’re each of youHalf of one wholeOn the day your love comes

alive.

Believe in your senses, discount all your fears

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Believe, when it seems you’vebeen lovers for years

All along … All along …And you’ll believe you’re not

going to dieAnd you’ll believe there is

never goodbyeAnd in your happiness both of

you cry…How you’ll cry.

Oh how I wish I could relivethe day

When our love was newThinking, believing and feeling

that wayWhen our love was new

I could believe I’m not going todie

I could believe there is nevergoodbye

And I could tell myself lie afterlie after lie.

6 bookseller in the rain

See the bookseller in the rainAnd the books on the table

opened up to the skyIn the first light drizzle of a

grey afternoonIn the city…

See the bookseller in the rainAnd the stall that he keeps in

the streetLooking something like a trailer

in a trailer parkIn the morning when he opens

up the doorsAnd out floods a world on the

tablesAs the books open up with

their promise ofAdventureAnd their storiesAnd their peopleAnd the places you could

travel, through their picturesAnd they’re opening like

flowers…

And I tell myself I’m a part ofthem

As the printed pages fly byAnd the people all come alive

againIn a simple blink of an eye

Here a tale of woe, there acomedy

And a Dickens novel or twoAnd a story told by O’HenryI have barely time to reviewTill the first drop of rain…

See the bookseller in the rainQuickly run to the tables and

collect all the booksBring them in from the spatter

of the thunderstormPlacing cover onto cover onto

cover onto coverAnd the doors of the stall

swinging shut.Mister bookseller in the rainLet me in?I’m a closed bookToo.

7 my grandmother’s love letters

I went up to my atticTo put away your lettersIn a grey metal box, with two

broken locksNext to an old birdcage.

When I went to put your lettersinside

I found another packetCovered with dustAnd smelling of mustThat came from another age…

My grandmother’s love lettersHeld in her trembling handWhen she was seventeenThey were a world to herThey were her youthThey made her whisper lowSeventy-seven years ago

My grandmother’s love lettersSo firmly in her graspShe’d read one line and gaspThat means she breathed the

air of long agoI loved her so…

Some things you never know—What makes the tide come in

and the little flower growHow Father Time decidesWhen he’ll come for one of us

Some things you never know—What makes the eagle fly and

the southern wind blowThese things they come, they goLike portentsOmensDreams…You never know.

My grandmother’s love lettersWhen she was seventeenThink what they had to meanThey were a world to herThey were her youthShe tied them with a bowSeventy-seven years ago

My grandmother’s love lettersSo firmly in her graspShe’d read one line and gaspAnd I’m the air she breathed

so long agoI miss her so…

Some things you never know—What makes the tide come in

and the little flower growHow Father Time decidesWhen he’ll come for one of us

Some things you never know—What makes the eagle fly and

the southern wind blowThese things they come,

they goLike portentsOmensDreams…

You never know.

8 i am longing

I am longing to be lovedWho will have this willing

heart?I’ll return love for my partI’m longing to be loved.

Oh tell me who in the worldWill have all my care?Who will receive all that I have

to share?

I am longing to be lovedWho will have this willing

heart?I’ll return love for my partI’m longing to be loved.

Who will have this heart ofmine

Bursting wide with joy to give?None so loyal, true or fineWho wants this heart of mine?

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I am longing to be lovedWho will have this willing

heart?I’ll return love for my partI’m longing to be loved.

9 I had a dream about you

I had a dream about youWe were together againAs we had always been.It was the happiest dreamI think I ever have hadThat you and I’ve been in.It was a dream I don’t need to

explainWe’re in the car and we’re

driving in MaineIt’s so incredibly beautifulI don’t know where to begin…

We’re driving into the nightAnd from a magical heightWe see two orange moons.They’re hangin’ up in the skyLike a pair of contented bal-

loons.And as we stare into space in

astonishmentI turn to look at your faceAnd you kiss me…All in an instantInside of a wonderful dream.

Oh I remember two orangemoons

Rise in the sky to the sound ofloons

And you were thereMy dream.

I had a dream about youWe were together againAn old familiar pair.It was the kind of a dreamSo absolutely convincingYou believe you’re there.The open road and the dotted

white linesThe crispy smell in the air of

the pinesThe overwhelming sensationYou’re up and awake every-

where…

And when we look in the skyThey’re getting higher and

higherThose two orange moons.There’s one for you and for meAnd, impossibly, both of them

gleam.And I am holding your hand

for eternityAnd you’re beginning to sayThat you love me

If only it really had happenedIf only it really had happenedI had a dream about youBut, of course,

It was only a dream…It was only a dream…It was only a dream…I had a dream about

you but of courseIt was only a dream.

10 by the river

From the icy bridge I hear the river

Flowing out beyond the open bay

Deep beneath the waves a voice is calling

Come down to me, it seems to say…

I will understand your frozen journey

In the bends and elbowsof my flow

Come to me and be my close companion

We’ll be as oneIn what we knowWhat we know…

People will be bornPeople will dieAs before you were bornAnd long after you…Young ones will find loveHand will find handWe will flowWith no end

On and on ... on and on…

River calling come join myjourney

I will ease your burdenI will be your rest

River calling come be my loverI will bring you freedomFlow along with me to the sea

She sings to me…She sings to me…

See the snowflakes melting on my surface

As I softly lap against the shoreTake a step and come to me

my darlingHere in my armsYou’ll cry no moreCry no more…

People will be bornPeople will dieAs before you were bornAnd long after youYoung ones will find loveHand will find handWe will flowWith no endOn and on … on and on…

River calling come join myjourney

I will ease your burdenI will be your rest

River calling come be my loverI will bring you freedomFlow along with me to the sea

11 what a relief

Nothing left but the shoutingNothing left but the painNothing left but the doubtingNothing raining but rainI should be feeling despondentI should be lost in my griefBut all that I feel insideIs — What a reliefWhat a relief…

My life’s not a short storyMy life’s more than pretendMy life has its tomorrowsStories come to an endFictional hearts can be brokenReal ones don’t heal all that

wellAmazing to still be hereAnd what a relief.

No, I don’t regret the dayThat I first met youNo, there’ll never be a timeWhen I’ll forget youOh, if only half the things I’ve

lived and planned forTurn out for the best…

This will take getting used toSomething new on my mindSomehow making a new startSomehow hoping I’ll findThose moments we can

advance toMoments we have a chance toTurn a new leafThose moments are fewAnd always too brief…But what a relief!

And surely you’re still youI’m still meThat’s for certainI’m still no good at letting goSo, please let’s not even say

hello…

Snow is falling all aroundFalling everywhereI walk through it all aloneYou’re no longer there.

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Moi pareilC’est bien comme çaPour oublier c’est encore tropTôt…Je t’en prie ne dis pas un mot

Je t’en prie ne dis pas un mot.

15 l’amour voit le jour

Souviens-toi des premiers joursoù l’Amour

Si nouveau pour nousSe satisfaisait de rêves sur la

courEt le rouge aux joues

Première rose…Que le mystèr’commence

La vie s’arc-en ciel en fleurs dela chance

Le jour où l’Amour voit le jour.

Brûlez bougies à l’amour con-senti

Tout nouveau pour nousVa faire un tour du coté de nul-

l’partChaque jour…Des flots de musiqu’t’écument

la têteQuand tu somnanbul’s ta vie

sous la couettePlein d’Amour.

Fais donc confiance à ta petiteclef

Elle va ouvrir l’autre Cœur, l’aut’ moitiéDe toi même, l’amour voit le jour.

Crois tout ce que tu sens,oublie d’avoir peur

Tu vois que l’Amour vient deloin et d’ailleurs

C’est le bon…C’est le bon…Tu vas croir’ que l’éternité te

toucheQu’Adieu est un mot à bannir

de ta boucheDes rires de larmes aux soleil

qui se coucheQue de larmes.

Remonter le temps à la minuteoù

L’amour simple et fouNous faisait lever les yeux sur

un cielTout nouveau pour nous

Je pourrais croir’ que je n’vaispas mourir

Qu’adieu de tous les mots estbien le pire

Et je pourrais continuer quandj’y songe, mes mensonges.

16 l’homme aux livres sous la pluie

L’homme aux livres attend sousla pluie

Bouquins sur étagère grande

ouverte sur le cielEt les premières goutt’s d’un

sombre après-midiDans la grand ville…

L’homme aux livres attend sousla pluie

Et cette échopp’ qu’il tient dansla rue

Fait penser à la caravan’ d’un terrain de jeu

Quand à l’aurore il en ouvre lesportes

Il inonde sur les tables unmonde

Quand les bouquins s’ouvrentavec mille promesses

D’aventure

Toutes ces histoiresCeux qui les viventEt tous ces lieux où l’on

voyage, grâce aux imagesDès qu’ils s’ouvrent comme

fleurs au matin…J’me dis à moi-même je fais

partie d’ellesLe vent tourn’ les pages deux

par deuxCeux qu’on a aimé sourient et

reviennentIl suffit de cligner des yeux

Triste sir’ par là, comédie par ciEt de Dickens un conte ou

deuxUne superb’ nouvell’ par

O’Henry

Décembre

12 la neige en décembre

Tombe la neig’ sur chaque toitSur tout l’universJe la traverse sans toiToi c’était hier

Avril Mai il y a 2 ansIl y a des larmes de sangJe croyais à notre amourTu en avais fait le tourJ’ignorais pourquoi

Qui me connaissait vraimentMe connaît maintenant

Ils s’endorment sous la neigeLes pas que je faisCeux qui se sont pris au piègeCeux que je ferai

Les choses n’étaient pas encoreElles ne s’ront plus à l’auroreLe parc un jour de printempsLes chênes poussaient

doucementVers un soleil lourdDécembre et son trop de blancCouvrent haine et amour.

Nos rendez-vous faits de riresDe jour comme de nuitIls ne devait pas finirDans ce blanc bleu gris…

J’ai bien cru fondre avec elle

Cette neige jamais bleu cielTa main toujours dans la mienneComme le fontTous les maillons de la chaîne

Crois moi je n’tai pas oubliéTu es avec moiNon je ne t’ai pas oubliéTu es à mes cotésOh comment puis je oublier

13 où es tu

Le quai d’un métroLa chanson d’un SDFQui me demande la pièceC’est à peine si je le voisLes yeux dans l’videLa dérive Qui s’paye un bideUn’ seul ’pensée me traverse

l’espritOù es tu donc?

Dans chaqu’miroir, je crois voir Quelqu’un qui n’est pas moi les

yeux sur le trottoir je vois matête

Qui fait oui en pensant nonSur un corps à l’abandonEt la question froncée sur les

sourcilsOù es tu donc?

Tiens il est moins l’quart, et t’asdormi dans l’placard

Il est quarante et la cuisine esten pente

Il est neuf heures, tu vérifies lacouleur

Le vent vient-il aux rideauxDes fenêtres de ta chambre?

Avec vue sur nous…

Mais quelqu’un vient les tic tacsD’une vieille horloge qui claqueDans les bruits de train qui me

dépassentSur les quais où l’on déplaceCeux qui n’ont jamais leur placePourtant je fais toute en sou-

venir de nous

Dis moi t’es où?Dis moi t’es où!

14 je t’en prie ne dis pas un mot

Nous c’était le hasardLa rencontreQue nulle n’attendPas le moment d’ouvrir nos

cœurs

Autrefois enlacésPuis fâchésEncore blessésJe t’en prie ne dis pas un mot

Ne nous arrêtons pas chez toiSait-on jamais jusqu’où on

pourrait allerParce que tu es le même

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J’ai le temps de la lire un peuAvant qu’il ne pleuv’ sur elle…

L’homme aux livres attend sousle pluie

Il court dans tous les senspour sauver ses bouquins

Des éclairs, du tonnerre, de lapluie qui nuit

Il les allong’ song’ contre song’la couverture le dos au mur

Et les stor’s claquent sur sestrésors.

Dis monsieur livre sous la pluieFais moi entrerMoi aussiJe suis un livre fermé.

17 tes lettres d’amour grand mère

Je suis allée au grenierPour y ranger tes lettresDans un ’boite à chaussures,

y’avait pas d’serrurePrès de la cage aux oiseaux.

J’allais les ranger lorsque j’aitrouvé

Des lettres plus secrètesCouvert de toilesD’araignées le voileS’est levé sur le passé…

Tes lettres d’amour grand mère

Tremblent au creux de tesmains

Quand tu avais seize ansElles étaient tout pour toiTu étais jeuneTu lisais à voix basseEntre deux guerr’s sur ta

terrasse

Tes lettres d’amour grand mèrePrisonnièr ‘s sous tes doigtsUne seule ligne à la foisElles respiraient le vieil air

d’autrefoisJe l’aimais tant…

Ces choses que tu ignoresQui fait venir la vague, qui fait

pousser les fleursMaître du temps tu blaguesToi tu viens quand vient ton

heure

Ces choses que tu ignoresQui fait voler l’aiglon, qui fuit le

vent du nordCes choses elle viennent, elles

vontComme les présages, Les rêvesLes signes…Trop de questions

Tes lettres d’amour grand mèreLorsque l’on a seize ansOn les lit tout le tempsElles étaient tout pour toiJe te vois jeune

Tu les lis à voix basseEntre deux guerres sur ta

terrasse

Tes lettres d’amour grand mère Prisonnières sous tes doigtsUne seul’ ligne à la foisEt je respire le vieil air

d’autrefoisComme tu me manques

Ces choses que tu ignoresQui fait venir la vagueQui fait pousser les fleursMaître du temps tu blaguesToi tu viens quand vient ton

heure

Ces choses que tu ignoresQui fait voler l’aiglon, qui fuit le

vent du nordCes choses elles viennent elles

vontComme les présagesLes rêvesLes signesTrop de questions

18 je n’attends que d’être aimée

Je n’attends que d’être aiméeQui aura ce cœur en veille?Aime le, il fera pareilJe n’attends que d’être aimée.

Oh qui de vous dans ce

mondeViendra me chercher?Qui recevra tout c’que j’ai à

donner?

Je n’attends que d’être aiméeQui aura ce cœur en veille?Aime le il fera pareilJe n’attends que d’être aimée

Qui aura ce cœur à moiPlein de joie à partager?Qui connaît de cœur plus droitQui veut ce cœur à moi?

Je n’attends que d’être aiméeQui aura ce cœur en veille?Aimes il fera pareilJe n’attends que d’être aimée

19 j‘ai fait un rêve de nous

J’ai fait un rêve de nousNous étions de nouveau deuxComme nous l’étions naguèreJ’ai fait mon plus beau rêveNous le rêvions à deuxTout en nous laissant faire.C’était un rêv’ que je n’peux

expliquerNous sommes en voitur’

direction l’étéTout y est incroyable et si beauJe n’ sais par où commencer…

Tous feux éteints dans la nuitEntre colline et magieJe vois deux lunes orangesEll’s vont s’accrocher au cielDeux montgolfier’s vont se

donner le chang’Les yeux rivés au ciel, je n’en

crois pas mes yeuxJe te vois, je me sens belleTu m’embrass’s…Dans le court instantAu cœur d’un rêve presque

parfait.

Oh je me souviens des lunesoranges

Grimpant le ciel vers les voixmésanges

Et toi tu es Ce rêve.

J’ai fait un rêve de nousNous étions de nouveau deuxNous refaisions la paire.Avez vous connu ce rêveDont on ne sort qu’en pensantQu’on l’a vécu naguère.La route était ouverte blanc

pointilléL’odeur des pins commence à

nous griserL’incroyable sensation que

Tu rêv’s le monde les yeuxouverts…

Et quand nous levons la têteEll’s flott’nt de plus en plus

haut

Les deux jumelles oranges.L’une est pour moi, l’autre est

pour toiEt pourtant les lun’s palissent à

deux.Ensuite je te tiens la main pour

l’éternitéEt tu essayes de me dire Que tu m’aimes

Si seulement c’était bien arrivéSi seulement c’était arrivéJ’ai fait ce rêve de nous Mais bien sur,Ce n’était rien qu’un rêve…Ce n’était rien qu’un rêve…Ce n’était rien qu’un rêve…J‘ai fait ce rêve de nous mais

bien sur Ce n’était rien qu’un rêve.

20 la rivière

Du vieux pont de neigej’entends la rivière

Ell’ se jette au cou de la grand’baie

Du fond de l’écume une voix m’appelle

Elle semble dir’« je t’attendais »…

Tes chemins de glac’ je lescomprendrai

Si nous divaguons sur l’océanViens à moi et sois mon doux

compagnon

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Paris-born ISABELLE GEORGES developed a love of musical theater when quite young. She was performing at the world-famousCabaret des Champs-Elysées by the age of 15,and she soon after appeared in a string of musi-cal productions that included Marilyn deMontreuil, Chère Daisy, and La Crise Est Finie.At 22, she was featured in the long-runningParisian production of Barnum, and leadingroles quickly followed in Michel Legrand’s LePasse Muraille, Singin’ in the Rain (for whichshe received the coveted Molière Award),Offenbach’s La Perichole, and Cole Porter’sNymph Errant at The Chichester Festival. In1998, Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks entrust-ed her with the role of Tzipporah in The Princeof Egypt, and two years later, she played KateMcGowan in the European premiere of MauryYeston's Titanic, the Musical. A singer, actress,and dancer, she works frequently in televisionand film, performs with the Yiddish orchestraSirba Octet, and is preparing a new album withjazz pianist René Urtreger.

ISABELLE WISHES TO THANK:Pierre Marcel Blanchot • Jean Michel Bouge • Gilles GressardFrederik Steenbrink • Mine Barral Verges • Boris BergmanDavid Breval • Stephane Corrado • Thierry CronMichel Dussarat • David Fischer • Lilja HermansdottirOlivier Parody • Francois Vila • Suzanne SarquierAnd a very special thank you to Maury Yeston.

Nous serons un Pour ce chemin, Prends ma main…

Des gens vont mourir,D’autres vont naîtreBien longtemps avant toiEt bien après toi…Les jeunes verront l’amourMain dans la mainDérivons sur l’embrunC’est sans fin… c’est sans

fin…

Rivière, Rivière, voyage avecmoi

N’ai pas peur d’être libreJe s’rai toujours là

Rivière, lumière, viens sois mon amour

Je te prends comme tu esLaisse moi te bercer…

T’emporter

Elle chante tout basElle chante pour moi

Vois la neige qui fond sur mapeau de vague

Au moment où je touche larive

Fais le premier pas mon amour ma vague

Viens dans mes bras Tu n’ pleur’as plusC’est fini!

Des gens vont mourirD’autres vont naîtreBien longtemps avant toiEt bien après toiLes jeun’s verront l’amourMain dans la mainDérivons Sur l’embrunC’est sans fin… C’est sans

fin…

Rivière, Rivière, voyage avec moiVers l’amour l’océanEntre ciel et terre

Rivière, lumière, viens soismon amour

Je te prends comme tu esLaisse moi te bercer…

T’emporter

21 tu peux souffler

Il ne reste que la route Que les larmes et les crisIl ne reste que le douteIl ne pleut que la pluieJe devrais me laisser tomberEt me noyer dans mes pleursMais une petite voix me ditTu peux souffler,Tu peux souffler

Ma vie n’est pas un’ nouvelleElle est plus que paraîtreMa vie a ses lendemainsToute histoire a sa fin

Cœurs de fiction, vous vousbrisez

Les vrais ne guérissent jamaisEtonnée d’être encore làDe pouvoir souffler.

Non je n’oublierai jamais ce jour de bonheur

Ou tu as gravé ton nom aufond de mon cœurs

Oh si seulement la moitié desrêv’s que j’ai fait

Se réalisait…

Oui il faudra s’habituerA t’avoir dans la tête A penser à demanderUne autre vie peut êtreIl y aura des moments où tuVas tourner la page où tuPourras sifflerCes moments sont raresEt toujours trop courts…« Qu’importe! »Je suis libérée!

Parce que tu es le mêmeMoi pareilC’est bien comme çaPour oublier c’est encore tropTôt…Je t’en prie ne dis pas un mot

Tombe la neig’ sur chaque toitSur tout l’universJe la traverse sans toiToi c’était hier

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PRODUCTION CREDITS

Produced by TOMMY KRASKER and MAURY YESTONExecutive Producer: PHILIP CHAFFIN

Recorded June 7-8, 2005at NOLA STUDIOS, New York City

Additional recording at CLASSIC SOUNDon December 21, 2005

Engineered by BILL MOSSEdited by BART MIGALMixed by TOM LAZARUSMastered by JOE YANNECEMusic preparation: PAUL HOLDERBAUM,

Chelsea Music Service

Art Direction & Design: DEREK BISHOP DESIGN

Photos: THIERRY CRON

ALSO AVAILABLE FROM PS CLASSICSSTAN CRAMER accompanies musiciansand singers in both classic and lyric reper-toires as well as cabaret and musical the-ater. His contemporaries refer to him as“le pianiste fou,” and with good reason.Working with him in artistic projectsranging from Opéra Comique to LaPéniche Opéra is described like workingnot only with a pianist, but with a come-dian, singer, and tap dancer as well. Herecently appeared in Paris in Gershwin’sOf Thee I Sing (Pour Toi, Baby) and I Do!I Do!, which won a Molière prize. He isrecipient of the Premier Prix of harmonyand counterpoint at the ConservatoireNational Supérieur de Musique de Paris.He continues today working as author,composer, orchestrator, and songarranger, and he is planning to break into film-scoring as well.

Publishing Credit: Tracks 1, 12-21: © 2004,

Tracks 2-11 © 1991 YestonMusic Ltd. (BMI). Worldwide

rights for Yeston Music Ltd.administered by Cherry River Music Co. (BMI).

All Rights Reserved. Used by Permission.

Celebrating the heritage of Broadway and American popular song

Visit our website at www.psclassics.com

FOR PS CLASSICS, LLC.:TOMMY KRASKER, Executive ProducerPHILIP CHAFFIN, A&R DirectionBART MIGAL, Staff EngineerJASON GAINES, Editorial CoordinatorROBBIE ROZELLE, Assistant to the ProducersDistributed by IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT

The Maury Yeston SongbookSixteen of Broadway's brightest talents performing twenty all-new tracks.

“The kind of CD you'll play againand again and again, each time

hearing something new.”— Atlanta Journal-Constitution

“A perfect example of the unique artistry that makes Yeston amajor talent indispensable to contemporary musical theatre.”— Houston Chronicle

Nine: The NewBroadway Cast

Recordingstarring Antonio Banderas,

Chita Rivera, Mary StuartMasterson, Jane Krakowski

and Laura Benanti

“Sublime. Grade: A.”— Entertainment Weekly

“One of the great Broadway scores, complex and accessible at the same time. Every role is sung

more beautifully than on the original cast album.” — Dallas Morning News

PS-637p & c 2006 PS Classics, LLC. 81 Pondfield Road, #306, Bronxville, NY 10708. All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws.

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December Songs

2 December Snow3 Where Are You Now?4 Please Let’s Not Even Say Hello5 When Your Love Is New6 Bookseller in the Rain7 My Grandmother’s Love Letters8 I Am Longing9 I Had a Dream About You10 By the River11 What a Relief

Décembre

12 La neige en décembre13 Où es tu14 Je t’en prie ne dis pas un mot15 L’amour voit le jour16 L’homme aux livres sous la pluie17 Tes lettres d’amour grand mère18 Je n’attends que d’être aimée19 J‘ai fait un rêve de nous20 La rivière21 Tu peux souffler

Orchestrated and conducted by LARRY HOCHMAN