Tevye Tradition Fiddler On The Roof

Tradition is the first song from fiddler on the roof.

Tevye tradition fiddler on the roof. You could say as the dairyman tevye does in fiddler on the roof that it s like a fiddler on the roof trying to scratch out a pleasant simple tune without breaking his neck in the off. In the song the main character tevye explains the roles of each social class fathers mothers sons and daughters in the village of anatevka and how the traditional roles of people like the matchmaker the beggar and the rabbi contribute to the village. When the local matchmaker yente arranges the match between his older daughter tzeitel and the old widow butcher lazar wolf tevye agrees with the wedding. Tradition is a song from fiddler on the roof performed by 2016 broadway cast.

It is based on tevye and his daughters or tevye the dairyman and other tales by sholem aleichem. Tradition is the opening number for the 1964 broadway musical fiddler on the roof. Fiddler on the roof is a musical with music by jerry bock lyrics by sheldon harnick and book by joseph stein set in the pale of settlement of imperial russia in or around 1905. The milkman reb tevye is a poor man that has been married for twenty five years with golde and they have five daughters.