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20 лет спустя
Twenty years ago my professor, research partner and friend Nina Stepanskaya, Z"L and I went to our first - out of a couple dozen - ethnographic expedition, and one of the three to Vitebsk. Beginning 2001 through 2008 (after Prof. Stepanskaya's untimely passing in 2007) we recoreded dozens of people in 22 Belarusian towns. Some recordings were made ( Read more... ) -
Yiddish Schmooze with Zisl Slepovitch
Come to Yiddish Schmooze (online) with Zisl Slepovitch this Sunday, October 24, 1pm US Eastern Time at The Workers Circle, with Nikolai Borodulin leading the conversation. It will be (unapologetically) in Yiddish, but / and you will hear some music, too. Register today.
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Cry, My Heart, Cry! April 28 concert
Carnegie Hall's Voices of Hope festival in partnership with YIVO Institute for Jewish Research present Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble and Sasha Lurje in the new program, Songs from Testimonies in Fortunoff Video Archive, Volume 2, on Thursday, April 28, 2021, 1pm EDT (GMT -4). Register for FREE now.
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Ensemble XTerranica: 5 лет спустя
Ансамбль «Экстерраника» - Ensemble XTerranica. Единственный концерт, 9 марта 2016 года. «Хангу из Подолоя». Аврам Пенгас (гитара), Зои Акуа (скрипка), Ларри Игл (барабаны, видео), Тейлор Бергрен-Крисман (контрабас), Зисл Слепович (бас-кларнет).
Впоследствии идея этого ансамбля реализовалась в виде Zisl Slepovitch Trio c Надавом Левом на гитаре и ( Read more... ) -
A Valts - a nay zinglid
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Bulgar from Funeral Season: Quarantine version
Bulgar from the Funeral Season documentary directed by Matthew Lancit, that I scored back in 2012. Here's the Quarantine-2020 version.
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Why Is Water Wet, or another WWWeird Question from Quora
Inspired by Merlin Shepherd’s funny comment on my Facebook post about yet another, khm, interesting question posted on Quora, I wrote and performed this piece on June 6, 2020, to the words of Merlin's comment, verbatim. I think that website deserves a vocal cycle, in logical continuation of the satire and humo(u)r traditions in music. Spoiler alert ( Read more... ) -
Happy 1st Birthday, Frida!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, FRIDA! It's been a year since I acquired the basset horn that is really becoming my voice. I have played it on recent klezmer quarantine videos, as well as in live performances with Zisl Slepovitch Trio, Dance Clarinets, and even Yiddish Fiddler. As some other of my instruments, this beautiful and truly versatile instrument has ( Read more... )
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