Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements Nov. 20, 2009
To minimize wear and tear on the untershames, three requests: 1. Send time-sensitive notices well in advance. 2. Send material as plain text: no HTML, other coding, or attachments; and write MENDELE PERSONALS in the subject line. 3. Correspond directly with the person who or organization which has posted the notice, *not* with your ever-beleaguered untershames. _______________________________________________________________________ Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:36:00 -0500 From: Debra Caplan <[email protected]> Subject:Goldfaden's Yiddish operatta at Harvard, Dec.2-6 Shulamis: Harvard's First Bilingual Yiddish Opera Onstage at the Agassiz Theater December 2-6 in Cambridge, MA Nearly 70 years since the Yiddish stage was silenced by World War II, voices will rise again to revive Avrom Golfaden~Rs Yiddish operetta, Shulamis, premiering in Harvard University~Rs historic Agassiz Theater, Dec. 2-6. This landmark bilingual production of Shulamis will premiere just over a century since the death of Goldfaden. Featuring a new English translation by renowned Yiddish translator Nahma Sandrow, a haunting musical score compiled by Folksbiene artistic director Zalmen Mlotek, a live orchestra, masks, and innovative choreography, Shulamis will charm and inspire both Yiddish theater aficionados and those who are new to the Yiddish theater. Shulamis, by Avrom Goldfaden Directed by Cecelia Raker and Debra Caplan Produced by Debra Caplan Music Direction: Lidiya Yankovskaya Choreography: Gabrielle Orcha Translated by Nahma Sandrow Musical arrangements: Zalmen Mlotek December 2, 3, 5, and 6 at 8 PM Matinee December 6 at 2 PM Tickets: $15 general, $10 students/seniors. Group discounts available. Music in Yiddish, Dialogue in English (with supertitles) All performances will take place in Harvard's historic Agassiz Theater in picturesque Radcliffe Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Agassiz Theater is located just a few blocks from the Harvard Square T Station at 5 James Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Information and tickets: www.shulamis.org or 617-496-2222 Contact: Debra Caplan [email protected] Debra Caplan Graduate Student Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Harvard University [email protected] ____________________________________________________________ Please do not use the "reply" key when writing to Mendele. Instead,direct your mail as follows: Material for Mendele Personal Notices & Announcements, i.e. announcements of events, commercial publications, etc., always in plain text (no HTML or the like) to: victor.bers at yale.edu (IMPORTANT: in the subject line write "Mendele Personal") Material for postings to Mendele Yiddish literature and language, i.e. inquiries and comments of a non-commercial or publicity nature: mendele at mailman.yale.edu IMPORTANT: Please include your full name as you would like it to appear in your posting. No posting will appear without its author's name.Submissions to regular Mendele should not include personal email addresses in the body of the message, as responses will be posted for all to read. In order to spare the shamosim time and effort, we request that contributors adhere, when applicable, as closely as possible to standard English punctuation,grammar, etc. and to the YIVO rules of transliteration into Latin letters, which are explained in summary form at http://www.yivoinstitute.org/about/index.php?tid=57&aid=275 . All other messages should be sent to the shamosim at this address: mendele at mailman.yale.edu Mendele on the web: http://mendele.commons.yale.edu/ The Mendele webpage currently gives access to issues starting with the inauguration, dated May 15, 1991 up to Vol. 16.027 (April 5, 2007).Issues starting with Vol. 18.004 (July 3, 2008) up to the most recent.can be found at http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/mendele/ We are now working to fill the hole between those two sets and add a search routine To join or leave the list: http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele _______________________________________________ Mendele mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/mendele
