{"id":47799,"date":"2025-10-24T01:47:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=47799"},"modified":"2025-10-23T16:52:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T23:52:57","slug":"series-explores-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2025\/10\/24\/series-explores-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Series explores music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Building Bridges, Kolot Mayim Reform Temple\u2019s annual six-part free lecture series, returns this year, beginning Nov. 2, 11 a.m., on Zoom. The theme for this season is Kolot Zemirot: The Many Voices of Jewish Music, exploring the role of music in shaping and sustaining Jewish identity across generations worldwide.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The series opens with Dr. Lori \u015een presenting Classical Echoes in Ladino: Sephardic Songs Reimagined. Rooted in the folk melodies of Sephardi Jews and shaped by centuries of migration, Sephardi art song brings a distinctive voice to the Western classical stage. \u015een explores the transformation of Ladino folk songs \u2013 an expressive Judeo-Spanish language enriched with influences from Turkish, Arabic, Greek and other cultures encountered throughout the Sephardi diaspora \u2013 into Western classical art song.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Through musical examples, historical context and stories from her research, \u015een reveals a genre that not only preserves Jewish memory but also expands understanding of what Jewish classical music can be. Her presentation offers listeners a rare sound world that bridges history, culture and art.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u015een is a Turkish mezzo-soprano and Fulbright alumna known for her versatility across opera, art song, musical theatre and jazz, with an international performing and teaching career. She uniquely bridges the worlds of art and science with a background in physics coupled with vocal pedagogy and voice science. As a dual citizen of Turkey and Spain, her multicultural perspective drives her pioneering research in Sephardi art song. She is recognized as the first to catalogue Western classical settings of traditional Sephardi folk songs and to create a Ladino diction guide specifically for singers.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Currently assistant professor of vocal pedagogy at Shenandoah University and part of the voice faculty at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, \u015een has shared her work worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Building Bridges series, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/kolotmayimreformtemple.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kolotmayimreformtemple.com<\/a>. The series is partially supported by the Jewish Federation of Victoria and Vancouver Island. Donations are gratefully accepted, with tax receipts for gifts over $25.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><i>\u2013 Courtesy Kolot Mayim Reform Temple<\/i><i><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building Bridges, Kolot Mayim Reform Temple\u2019s annual six-part free lecture series, returns this year, beginning Nov. 2, 11 a.m., on Zoom. 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