Good Rameau’rning. Starting the day with Les Paladins. #rameau #baroque #piano
OTD Mozart finished his Clarinet Quintet in A Major, a beloved piece of chamber music repertoire.
Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish at klezmer clarinet cadenza and Bottle Dance
Final theme from my music to Yelena Shmulenson’s play “Accused in 1952” #bassclarinet #composer
The acoustics at Augsburg’s former Kriegshaber Synagogue is nothing short of flattering. #clarinet
Yusef Lateef - Saxophone Sagacity (excerpts)
Klezmer visit to StuyHS
Paul Austerlitz’s Spirit Clarinet Orchestra at Downtown Music Gallery (May 6 ‘25) #improvisedmusic
Julius Hemphill’s sextets with JD Parran & Dance Clarinets members. #jazz
Magid klezmer book gets performed in Vilnius by Kapela Kotra.
Dance Clarinets - bass clarinet improv
Bass clarinets + Contra alto + piano improv moment (Dance Clarinets)
Dance Clarinets jazz orchestra - tonight at Greenwich House Music School. #jazz
Dance Clarinets jazz orchestra in concert - 4/15/25 7:30p Greenwich House Music School
Judith Cohen & Zisl Slepovitch: March 29, 8pm @ Barbès Brooklyn NY. #ladino #klezmer
Dance Clarinets jazz orchestra playing Oliver Lake & more on Apr. 15, 2025!
4/15, Dance Clarinets at Greenwich House Music School (NYC). Music by “Jabbo” Ware, Hemphill & more
Klezmer at Brookfield Place with Shoko Nagai’s Menorahs 🕎 #clarinet #selmerparis
Magid klezmer book 1 release concert feat Litvakus Dec 10, 8pm! #klezmer
Mozart loved clarinet, and it shows! #mozart #clarinet
#SingForHope piano in the hood.
Dance Clarinets feat. bass clarinets - April 23, 7:30p. #jazz #bigband #bassclarinet #clarinet
Rockin Big Alice on bass clarinet(s) - Dance Clarinets band led by JD Parran. #bassclarinet #bigband
Not quite ready for my prime time on 🎻, but I have other options to offer 😉#clarinetist
Sight-reading Don Pullen’s Big Alice with Dance Clarinets. Solo tuba part 🧐 #jazz #bassclarinet
Julius Hemphill - C/Saw with Dance Clarinets. #clarinet #bassclarinet #bigband #music
Playing at Kobi Halperin fashion show, Illuminations of Hope, at #NYFW #clarinetist #fashionshow
Playing at Kobi Halperin fashion show, Illuminations of Hope, at #NYFW #clarinet
Songs from Testimonies at FAU: Szydłowiec Nign #klezmer #clarinet
Auld Lang Syne in Yiddish at Stephen Wise Free Synagogue
Peshe fun Reshe fragments from Amid Falling Walls (Folksbiene) w/ Rachel Zatcoff.
Monk - Crepuscule with Nellie. Dance Clarinets. #bigband #jazz #bassclarinet
A minute of morning pre-service improvisation. #klezmer #clarinet #jazz
jamming on Sukkot (klezmer/ jazz) (2021)
Gas-nign: klezmer flute moment, sitting in with a student #klezmer band at Trip to Yiddishland
Wedding vibes tonight
Redele from Propoisk - Zisl Slepovitch & Olena Yeremenko
Debuted on my new flute yesterday. Loving this #miyazawa
Dance Clarinets: Music of Duke Ellington and Jabbo Ware
Nigunim.improv 3/30 7:30pm in Midwood, Brooklyn!
‘Jabbo’ Ware’s music - Dance Clarinets #jazz #bigband
Yiddish Fiddler - last moments 😢❤️🎶
Till next time, Fidler afn dakh! #YiddishFiddler
Last notes of my last gig of 2022. It has been very full. Grateful.
Hanukkah greetings from WhEE (WhereElse Ensemble)
Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish - playing through Jan 1. NYTF.org
Playing #ShineALight event w/ @Folksbiene Yiddish Fiddler cast
Fiddler on the Roof theme on the slide whistle - Dinah Slepovitch
D. Zisl Slepovitch, Ph.D. is an ethnomusicologist, educator, clarinetist / reed player, conductor, pianist, composer, and Yiddish singer, founder of Litvakus, Zisl Slepovitch Trio, Zisl Slepovitch Ensemble and Minsker Kapelye, Yiddish Language and Culture Instructor at The New School. He has had great pleasure and fun to work with Michael Alpert, Paul Brody, Hankus Netsky, Frank London, to name a few; arranging music for the Itzhak Perlman and Cantor Helfgot album (Sony Classical); wrote, co-produced, arranged, and performed shows presented by the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, as well as a number of other US and European companies. His favorite film work was that in Defiance directed by Edward Zwick. Zisl loves teaching and believes that one can learn from everyone, whether teaching, studying, or working together.
Joined 8 September 2008