Zisl Slepovitch & Stephen Naron – Fortunoff Video Archive

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Radiant Others: A Klezmer Music Podcast

Dan Blacksberg

39 episodes

3 weeks ago

Internationally renowned klezmer trombonist Dan Blacksberg sits down for in-depth and informal conversations with musicians and other artists whose work has made them an integral part of the klezmer world. Listeners get to go behind the scenes of the lives and work of the individual artists, and the modern history of klezmer music. We’ll talk about memorable moments in our artistic development, bring up wild performance stories, and ruminate what it’s like to be connected to this international community that makes up the klezmer world.

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Zisl Slepovitch & Stephen Naron – Fortunoff Video Archive

Radiant Others: A Klezmer Music Podcast

1 hour 41 minutes 53 seconds

1 year ago

Zisl Slepovitch & Stephen Naron – Fortunoff Video Archive

Radiant Others is proud to present an episode on “Songs from Testimonies – Fortunoff Video Archive” Featuring musician and scholar D. Zisl Slepovitch and archivist Stephen Naron. This is the second in our informal series about people creating present day music working with archives. The archive that is the focus of this episode is the Fortunoff Video Archive at Yale University, which holds over 12,000 hours of video testimony with survivors of the Holocaust. In this project, Zisl Slepovitch and his ensemble featuring Sasha Lurje draw out the songs and poetry shared by the people being interviewed in a dynamic music and storytelling performance. They have produced three albums of this material, the latest being Shotn/Shadows, Songs from Testimonies, Volume 3.

We dive into this very intense and serious music and music source by first relating it to our guests’ backgrounds, including Zisl’s wide ranging work and skills that made him the perfect person (as well as a highly in-demand New York musician!) for Stephen and the archive to work with in bringing these songs to the present. We talk about the scholarly and artistic process, and the ethical questions and responsibilities that must be navigated to do this work right. We also talk about the value of being able to present history, especially the history of catastrophes like the Holocaust as the stories of people’s lives, not just their deaths. Finally we invite all of you to listen to the music and to visit and make use of this vast and vital archive.

Also! The Archive is having its first ever large scale exhibition of footage from the archive at the Beineke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale, which runs though the end of January. Learn more here.

More about Songs From Testimonies
Listen to the music on streaming and at https://zisl.bandcamp.com/

Music on this episode:
Shotns
Hej Tam Na Gorce
Yinete prosklitiryo ke Stavrou Voutira
Une Fleur Au Chapeau

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Radiant Others is produced by Dan Blacksberg and Beila Ungar.
The Radiant Others podcast aims to be the internet’s central space for important conversations in Yiddish and Klezmer music. Please support our work on https://www.patreon.com/RadiantOthers

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