Full Orchestra - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1198448 By Hines Hines & Dad. By Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick. Arranged by Marek Czekala. 20th Century,Broadway,Film/TV,Musical/Show. Score and parts. 59 pages. Marek Czekala #797590. Published by Marek Czekala (A0.1198448). If I Were a Rich Man is a show tune from the 1964 musical Fiddler on the Roof. It was written by Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock. The song is performed by Tevye, the main character in the musical, and reflects his dreams of glory. The title is inspired by a 1902 monologue by Sholem Aleichem in Yiddish, Ven ikh bin Rothschild (Yiddish: װען ×יך בין ר×ָטשילד; lit. “If I were a Rothschildâ€), a reference to the wealth of the Rothschild family, although the content is quite different. The lyric is based in part on passages from Sholem Aleichem’s 1899 short story The Bubble Bursts. Both stories appeared in English in the 1949 collection of stories Tevye's Daughters.WikipediaThis arrangement proves that even with a single cast of wind instruments, a piece can sound great.
