Yiddish Culture FestivalYiddish Culture Festivalhttp://www.haverford.edu/calendar/details/126652Stokes Auditorium2010-03-17T19:30:002010-03-17T22:00:00
March 17, 7:30PM
Stokes Auditorium
Description
The Yiddish Culture Festival presents a talk and performance by Dr. Dimitri Slepovitch, Ethnomusicologist and Clarinetist. Dr. Slepovitch will give a talk titled "Documenting and Reviving the Jewish Musical Culture of Belarus".
Dr. Dmitri ''Zisl-Yeysef'' Slepovitch is an ethnomusicologist, clarinetist, pianist, composer, conductor, and Yiddish singer, a founding member of the Minsker Kapelye Ensemble, Minsk, and Tamevate Kapelye / Foolish Band, New York. He serves as an Assistant to the Artistic Director at the National Yiddish Theater – Folksbiene, New York. He combines performance, teaching, and research of Ashkenazi Jewish music and other Eastern and Central European musical traditions. Dmitri Slepovitch has performed with Aaron Alexander, Michael Alpert, Paul Brody, Arkady Gotesman, Psoy Korolenko, David Krakauer, Frank London, Pete Rushefsky, Selim Sesler, Yale Strom, and Theresa Tova.
Having moved to the US in 2008, Dmitri Slepovitch brought with him his collection of Litvak musical folklore containing dozens of hours of interviews and region-specific musical material. He published over 20 articles and co-authored a book, “Traditional Jewish Music in Eastern Europe” (2007, in Russian). He holds a Ph.D. degree in musicology (Jewish music) from The Belarusian State Academy of Music (2006).
Link: http://klezmer.narod.ru/
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