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Dima's Theme​/​Bessarabia

from The Musicker's Balalaika by J Roth

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This song introduces the protagonist, Dima, whose mother was a Rom (Gypsy) banished from her kumpania (traveling group) for becoming impregnated by a Russian soldier. Dima's mother dies in childbirth but Dima's "grandmama" raises him among the Roma. There Dima learns to play music and one night around a campfire hears old Betshi the storyteller recount how he once ate the bones of a frog (picked clean by ants) to become invisible and escape Beng (the Evil One.)

Dima's paternal grandmother, a pious Russian woman, comes and finds Dima and takes him away to Leningrad (St. Petersburg) where she tries to civilize him.

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from The Musicker's Balalaika, released December 7, 2006

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