A friling zingeray: Springtime Yiddish Singing Circle

6 sessions, Thursdays: March 7, 14, 21, 28; April 4, 11 Tuition: $325 YIVO members: $250** Students: $30 (Must register with valid university email address) Registration is closed. Sign up for YIVO's email list to receive announcements of upcoming classes.

Instructor: Lorin Sklamberg

Join YIVO Sound Archivist Lorin Sklamberg for a heymish springtime singing circle surveying Yiddish folk, theater and art songs drawn from over 30 years of collecting. Repertoire will include hitherto unpublished material recorded by the legendary folklorist Ruth Rubin (as presented on YIVO’s Ruth Rubin Legacy online exhibition), Hasidic spirituals notated by the choral conductor/composer Chemjo Vinaver, folk repertoire polished into gems by the remarkable stage performer Isa Kremer and words and music from the pens of singer-songwriters Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman and Josh Waletzky, among others. Song texts in transliteration and translation will be provided; sessions will be illustrated by recordings sourced from the Max and Frieda Weinstein Archive of YIVO Sound Recordings.

Lorin Sklamberg is a founding member of the Grammy Award-winning Klezmatics. He has also appeared on recordings and in live shows with Itzhak Perlman, Chava Alberstein and Emmylou Harris, among many others, and teaches Yiddish song from São Paulo to St. Petersburg. Ongoing: Saints and Tzadiks (Irish and Yiddish songs with Susan McKeown), the Semer Ensemble (Jewish music from 1930s Berlin), Alpen Klezmer (Bavarian and Yiddish songs), Drawing Life (multi-media song cycle, JMI, London), Sklamberg and the Shepherds, In the Fiddler’s House and the Nigunim Trio. Lorin has served as YIVO’s Sound Archivist since 2000. “One of the premier American singers in any genre.” – Robert Christgau, NPR.

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