Veranstaltung: Workshop: „Zingt oyf Yiddish“

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 arequirement. Handouts will include melody charts, original texts in Roman transliteration, as well as English translations for each song.