Culture in Quarantine: Music
Faced with the pandemic and the necessity of social distancing this March, YIVO quickly pivoted to online learning and Live online programming in order to provide for our community—both local and global. Here’s a roundup of our recent music-related programs.
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BEYLE100: Celebrating a Century of the Yiddish Songs, Poetry & Artistic Vision of Beyle Schaechter-GottesmanAired: August 9, 2020Concert | An online concert celebrating the 100th birthday of Yiddish songwriter, poet, and singer Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman (1920-2013), featuring many of the Yiddish world’s leading contemporary performers. (This program is conducted primarily in Yiddish.)
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Continuing Evolution: Yiddish Folksong in Classical MusicAired: June 30, 2020Concert | A premiere of new works commissioned by YIVO, by composers Martin Bresnick, Marti Epstein, Aaron Kernis, Judith Shatin, and Alex Weiser.
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Sephardic Art Song: A Musical Legacy of the Sephardic DiasporaAired: June 23, 2020Lecture and Concert | Lori Şen discusses the history, language, and culture of the Sephardim, with a special focus on the elements and stylistic features of Sephardic music, followed by a recital of Sephardic songs with Lori Sen, Jeremy Lyons, and Alexei Ulitin.
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Ten Children’s Songs of Y. L. Peretz by Moses Milner (1921)Aired: June 11, 2020Concert | Lucy Fitz Gibbon and Ryan MacEvoy McCullough perform 10 Children’s Songs of Y. L. Peretz (1921) by composer Moses Milner.
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Where is Our Homeland? Songs from Testimonies in the Fortunoff Video ArchiveAired: April 27, 2020Concert | The Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble & Sasha Lurje perform Where is Our Homeland, an album of songs transcribed from Holocaust survivors’ testimonies in the Fortunoff Video Archive.
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Beethoven in the Yiddish ImaginationAired: April 22, 2020Concert | A performance of Ode to Joy in Yiddish translation, a bilingual dramatic reading of a Yiddish retelling of an apocryphal story of the origins of the Moonlight Sonata, and performances of two of Beethoven's masterworks with Jewish connections. |