Alex Weiser
@AWeiserComposer
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Composer, @KCNewMusic Co-Founder, @YIVOinstitute Public Programs; Albums on @CantaloupeNY & @BrightShinythgs —https://t.co/fullYxns5X
New York City
Joined July 2014
Thrilled to announce: THE GREAT DICTIONARY OF THE YIDDISH LANGUAGE world premiere production September 18th and 21st at @yivoinstitute as its annual Nusakh Vilna event & part of its 100th anniversary centennial celebration in partnership with @AOPopera, @yidishlige, & ASJM
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RT @yivoinstitute: Premiering at YIVO, this new opera tells the moving story of a linguist determined to preserve Yiddish after the Holocau….
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RT @AWeiserComposer: Thrilled to announce: THE GREAT DICTIONARY OF THE YIDDISH LANGUAGE world premiere production September 18th and 21st….
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If you’re interested in helping us make this production possible, we would be incredibly grateful for your support which can be made as a fully tax-deductible donation to @yivoinstitute here: /End.
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And check out this wonderful write-up in @ingeveb by Ofer Dynes:
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In The Great Dictionary of Yiddish Language: A Chamber Opera, composer Alex Weiser and librettist Ben Kaplan endow enchantment and glamor on their decidedly ung
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If you're curious to delve deeper before the performance check out this clip from the concert performance we did last May at the @bangonacan Long Play festival:
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The character of Yudel Mark is haunted by three ‘alefs,’ three divine emanations of the Yiddish language—played by three mezzo-sopranos—who compel him to breathe new life into Yiddish as he works to complete the dictionary.
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Here is a bit about GDYL: With a runtime of 50 minutes, the opera is performed by an ensemble of five singers, combining characters based on historical figures — Yudel Mark and Max Weinreich — with those inspired by Jewish mystical themes.
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. scenic designer Michael Bennett Lewis, projection design by Camilla Tassi, lighting design by Stacey Boggs, and costume design by Matsy Stinson.
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Ben Kaplan and I are thrilled about our brilliant, talented team: Director Rebecca Miller Kratzer, tenor @JasonWeisinger, baritone @InGidWeTrust, mezzo-sopranos @Gornsteinonline, Kate Maroney, and Kelly Guerra, conductor David Bloom. .
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RT @eddyportnoy: What other opportunity will you have to see an opera about the intense lexicographical disputes surrounding the creation o….
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RT @yivoinstitute: WORLD PREMIERE: a new chamber opera with music by Pulitzer Prize finalist Alex Weiser and libretto by Ben Kaplan, which….
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RT @yivoinstitute: “US Constitution and Declaration of Independence in Yiddish is featured in the forthcoming 100 Objects from the Collecti….
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July 4, 1924. The Declaration of.Independence “will outlive them” Yiddish cartoon. @yivoinstitute weekly centennial celebration archival treasures video, this week brought to you by @eddyportnoy.
YIVO Senior Academic Advisor & Director of Exhibitions Eddy Portnoy discusses a political cartoon by Zuni Maud, which appeared in "Der groyser kundes" in 1924.
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RT @yivoinstitute: "The [YIVO Archives] contains what its founders envisioned 100 years ago when it was established in Vilna: a repository….
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"100 Objects from the Collections of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research" shows a sampling of the institutes archive.
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RT @yivoinstitute: "This book stands as a celebration of YIVO's 100 years of collecting. It is a showcase of the products of our unwavering….
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RT @yivoinstitute: “The act of curating 100 objects from the 24 million in our collections may seem like an impossible task, but in many wa….
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To mark its centenary, the YIVO Institute in New York has used a tiny fraction of its vast collection of artefacts to condense the Jewish story into a coffee-table book
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RT @yivoinstitute: YIVO Director of Education Ben Kaplan discusses magic lantern slides featuring images of Yiddish theater artists. https:….
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