The Wheel: Songs from the Road

Presented in partnership with YI Love Jewish as part of their YIDFEST 2024 series.

“Phenomenal… Klezmer musician to the core!” – New York Theatre Wire

“…the brave sound of klezmer, played with a full heart and as loud as the clarinet can blow.” – TimeOut New York

“Forefront of contemporary Jewish music.” – Jewcy.com

Musicologist, singer, and composer D. Zisl Slepovitch presents a collection of rare, beautiful, and sometimes revelational songs and instrumental pieces that he recorded from mostly elderly Jewish people and discovered in the archives together with his Mentor Dr. Nina Stepanskaya in Eastern Europe. Zisl Slepovitch is an internationally renowned multi-instrumentalist (clarinetist, saxophonist, flutist, pianist, keyboardist, singer), conductor, composer, arranger, translator, and music and Yiddish educator.