Information zur Barrierefreiheit: Der Große Sitzungssaal der Philosophischen Fakultäten (PT 3.0.79) ist ein ebenerdiger Raum und mit Rollstuhl und Gehhilfe zu erreichen.
Veranstaltungssprache: Englisch
Der Workshop ist Teil einer Veranstaltungsreihe mit Dr. Slepovitch:
02.07.2025 | 17:00 | Lecture recital „In Many Tongues“
03.07.2025 | 10:15 | Masterclass „Voices from the Ghetto“
Dr. Zisl Slepovitch offers an immersive, comprehensive Yiddish song workshop. In addition to addressing the purely performance aspects, such as vocal style, accompaniment, working with lyrics, and building internal dramaturgy, he will provide extensive historical, linguistic, and musical context for each song.
The workshop will open with a nign – a wordless Hassidic tune, which serves as a form in introduction and meditation, and followed by several hand-picked songs by the known and anonymous authors, covering different themes, and creating an insight into various styles of this genre. The workshop is just as about “how” as it is about “what.”
Prerequisites: music skills (including sight-reading) and Yiddish comprehension are helpful, but are not a requirement. Handouts will include melody charts, original texts in Roman transliteration, as well as English translations for each song.
Dr. D. Zisl Slepovitch is a native of Minsk, Belarus, who has resided in the United States (New York) since 2008. He has earned Ph.D. in musicology at the Belarusian State Academy of Music. His primary research focus is on the traditional Jewish music in Eastern Europe. Slepovitch is a multi-instrumentalist klezmer, classical, and improvisational musician (woodwinds, keyboards); a composer, arranger, conductor, a music and Yiddish educator.
Slepovitch is a founding member of the critically acclaimed klezmer collective Litvakus and Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble. He has served in multiple performance and creative roles in numerous productions by the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (New York), State Jewish Theatre (Bucharest).
He serves as the Musician-in-Residence at Yale University’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, and in that capacity produced three critically acclaimed records. Among Slepovitch’s numerous theatre, film, and TV credits are the Defiance movie, Eternal Echoes album (Sony Classical), Rejoice with Itzhak Perlman and Cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot (PBS), and Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish (off-Broadway).
Die Veranstaltung wird von Prof. Dr. Katelijne Schiltz (Lehrstuhl für Musikwissenschaft) und Prof. Dr. Sabine Koller (Professur für Slavisch-Jüdische Studien) in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Leibniz ScienceCampus „Europe and America in the Modern World“ und dem Zentrum Erinnerungskultur organisiert.
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