January 23, 2025: Live concert of Songs from Testimonies featuring Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble & Sasha Lurje
Event time: Thursday, January 23, 2025 – 5:00pm to 6:30pm Location: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (BRBL) See map Admission: Free Event description: Marking the forty-fifth anniversary of the first videotaping of survivor testimony on video by the Holocaust Survivors Film Project, In the First Person is the first large-scale public exhibition of footage from the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies. In conjunction with this exhibit, the Fortunoff Archive is presenting a concert of its Songs from Testimonies project, featuring Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble & Sasha Lurje. Songs from Testimonies is a musical research and performance project based on poems and songs recounted in interviews with survivors recorded at the Fortunoff Archive. This concert will feature songs that represent a wide diverse array of musical traditions, genres and languages, from instrumental Hasidic niggunim to Polish tango and Yiddish folksongs.
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