Folk
Music package for a feature musical in development
The songs of JEWISH. One inherited songbook. A contemporary pulse.
The music is not decoration. It is the engine of the film: old melodies pushed through new voices until memory becomes something a young audience can claim.
The film playlist
The Songs of JEWISH.
From a wedding circle to a Friday-night table to a stage anthem, these are the songs of JEWISH: old melodies, new bodies, communal joy. Hear them all in the public playlist JEWISH — The Film · The Songs.
Yiddish
Chiribim Chiribom
Holiday
Shavuot
Holiday
Happy Purim!
Brotherhood
We Are Sisters We Are Brothers
Holiday
Hanukkah Oh Hanukkah
Holiday
Pesach (Passover)
Family
Mommy
Holiday
Passover Light
Resilience
Hold On (Hevenu Shalom Aleichem)
Wedding
Forever
Celebration
Happy Birthday
The rules of the score
Two creative constraints, both sacred.
The Two-Thirds Rule
Modern arrangement is the default.
At least two-thirds of Rebecca's songs are full modern adaptations: hip-hop, EDM, trap, flamenco, electronic ambient. Literal translation is the exception.
The Recognizable Melodies Rule
The melody is sacred.
Famous tunes such as Hava Nagila, Tumbalalaika, and Mezinka must remain recognizable through any arrangement. Everything around the melody is transformable.
The songbook
A family archive becomes a feature score.
Joseph Shapiro's mother preserved melodies that crossed borders, languages, and eras. His students do not reject that inheritance. They make it playable again.
The full score moves across wedding songs, holiday melodies, table songs, folk standards, and original English adaptations. The songs of JEWISH are gathered in the public playlist above.
The music is not theoretical. Walter J. Kin releases music as RIGLI, with a catalog of 28 original songs and roughly 10 million combined streams: about 5 million on the RIGLI YouTube channel and 5 million across streaming platforms.