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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic COZ this comng week in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoDear Friends and Colleagues
Join us for COZ 30: Tuesday February 9, 2021
Professor Mark Slobin in conversation with Joshua Waletzky take A Fresh Look at the Yiddish Folksong
Mark Slobin Winslow-Kaplan Professor of Music Emeritus at Wesleyan University, ethnomusicologist and author and Joshua Waletzky Filmmaker, singer, and composer
They…[Read more]
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Jane Enkin replied to the topic Defining Jewish Music in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 4 years, 11 months agoThe kavana is important. Someone can compose one piece as Jewish music and the next as something else. We heard David Amram on Conversations on Zoom and it was clear that he had selected his Jewish compositions for us to hear — in his case, they included Jewish text, or Jewish narrative, or motifs from Jewish folk music. There was no…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Fisher started the topic Defining Jewish Music in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoAt Monday’s (1.2.21) informal IFJMS gathering on Zoom (rather intimate – there were only 7 participants – but very interesting), the topic of Defining Jewish Music suddenly came up for discussion. For all those involved in Jewish music (even for myself, with only 3 years of experience in the field), this is a well-known (some might say, well-worn)…[Read more]
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David Fligg started the topic Holocaust Memorial Day events now available on YouTube in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 4 years, 12 months agoI draw your attention to two of last week’s Holocaust Memorial Day events which are now available on YouTube.
- ‘The Last Chords in the Auschwitz Universe’, which focuses on Gideon Klein: https://youtu.be/ZiJgcjXkdR0
- Dr. Gila Flam (National Library of Israel), delivering the annual Royal Northern College of Music HMD lecture, ‘Yiddish Songs…
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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic COZ this comng week in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years agoDear Friends and Colleagues
Join us for COZ 29: Tuesday February 2, 2021
Rabbi Boruh Cohon in conversation with Jonathan Morgan
to talk about The Fish and the Phonograph, the Life and work of AZ IdelsohnRetired Cantor and Rabbi, Baruch Cohon was revered pioneering Jewish ethnomusicologist, AZ Idelsohn’s, youngest student from the age of fi…[Read more]
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Jeffrey Fisher started the topic The Slave – A new opera by Michael Shapiro in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years agoSpectacular World of Jewish Music, a non-profit organization in Israel dedicated to “bringing Jewish music to the forefront of the stage”, is delighted to announce the planned Premiere of The Slave, a new opera by the Jewish American composer Michael Shapiro, in Jerusalem, in the 2022/23 season. The opera is based on the novel The Slave by the…[Read more]
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Uri Schreter replied to the topic IFJMS welcomes Jewish Music Studies groups and organisations. in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years agoHi all,
lovely seeing many of you at the meeting yesterday.
As requested, here’s a description of our organization, the JSMSG:
The Jewish Studies and Music Study Group (JSMSG) is a study group of the American Musicological Society (AMS). Our core activities revolve around the annual AMS conference, where we organize an academic panel about…[Read more]
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Geraldine Auerbach started the topic IFJMS welcomes Jewish Music Studies groups and organisations. in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThe International Forum for Jewish Music Studies (IFJMS) was set up (in June 2020) to facilitate connection between scholars, musicians and librarians dealing with Jewish music.
IFJMS therefore invites Jewish Music Studies groups and organisations to register here at the Jewish Music Group on the Humanities Commons website https://hcommons-staging…[Read more]
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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic Holocaust Memorial Day in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years agoOn 24 Jan 2021, at 16:17, Simon Broughton <simon.broughton@btconnect.com> wrote:
Dear Friends
To mark Holocaust Memorial Day this year, JMI is screening The Music of Terezin, a documentary I made nearly 30 years ago about the Jewish musicians and composers imprisoned in the Terezín (Theresienstadt) ghetto in WWII Czechoslovakia. (Apologies to…[Read more]
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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic Holocaust Memorial Day in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years agoMimi Sheffer Writes
Our Concert Refuge in Phantasy Will be broadcast on DeutschlandFunk Kultur on January 27th , the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, at 20:00 Central European Time.
https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/unsere-live-streams.2428.de.html
Our concert series Living Music features Jewish composers who escaped the Nazi re…[Read more]
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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic COZ this comng week in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years agoDear Friends and Colleagues
Join us for COZ 28: January 26, 2021 Cantor Jaclyn Chernett in conversation with Cantor Jalda Rebling
to talk about Nusach with KavanahJaclyn is the director of EAJL The European Academy for Jewish Liturgy EAJL) http://www.eajl.org
Jalda is the spiritual leader of congregation Ohel HaChidusch Berlin http://www.jalda-rebling.co…[Read more] -
Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic Holocaust Memorial Day in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years agoAgnes Kory Invites us to her Wigmore Hall talk: International Holocaust Memorial Day, Wednesday 27th January, 10am
she says: There is some overlap with my 15th December 2020 Zoom (COZ) talk, which I delivered for the International Forum for Jewish Music Studies (IFJMS).However, I very much hope that you will be able to log into the Wigmore Hall…[Read more]
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Geraldine Auerbach started the topic Holocaust Memorial Day in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years agoDavid Fligg says
To mark next Wednesday’s Holocaust Memorial Day, I draw your attention to two music-related events.
- Tuesday 26th January, 7pm UK time. Taube Jewish Heritage Tours presents ‘The Last Chords in the Auschwitz Universe’ about Gideon Klein’s final months, and eventual murder, in the Fürstengrube camp . You can register here.
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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic IFJMS Newsletter in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years agoWe have great pleasure in sending you Newsletter #3 of the International Forum for Jewish Music Studies IFJMS.
This Newsletter, which you will find attached as a pdf, features comments on the COZ programme from several of those who have already and those who look forward to having a Conversation on Zoom’ in this coming series. It also features…[Read more]
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Geraldine Auerbach started the topic Bloch Study Group in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThe International Forum for Jewish Music Studies welcomes the establishment of a Bloch Study Group.
Starting on Wed 13 January, Jesse Rosenberg, a member of the musicology faculty of Northwestern University, will host monthly sessions with scholars, performers, commentators and conductors who will give presentations on topics of particular…[Read more]
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Ben Brumfield replied to the topic Getting started with crowdsourcing in GLAMS and academia: your questions sought in the discussion
Crowdsourcing on Humanities Commons 5 years agoWe try to address the first question in our monthly webinars, talking about selecting materials, finding volunteers, creating task instructions, and keeping people motivated.
A rough recording (the plumber interrupts partway through) of our December webinar is recorded at https://youtu.be/xdy64yZbPHs?t=469 and the first 22 minutes from the…[Read more]
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Mia Ridge replied to the topic Getting started with crowdsourcing in GLAMS and academia: your questions sought in the discussion
Crowdsourcing on Humanities Commons 5 years agoA question that was close to my heart this month – what advice would you give to someone in the lead up to launching an online project? What might I have forgotten to do or set up?
And what’s different when you’re launching a new phase of a project versus launching an entirely new project?
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Mia Ridge replied to the topic Getting started with crowdsourcing in GLAMS and academia: your questions sought in the discussion
Crowdsourcing on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoI noticed this question from Nina Janz some time ago, and I’ve (finally) shared it as I think it’s reasonably common in some fields:
‘I am looking for any standardisations or guidelines for transcriptions (online) in e.g. #crowdsourcing projects – I would use ISAD(G) – but it includes more titles, other than full-text transcripts’
My initial…[Read more]
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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic COZ this comng week in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoJust to remind you that there is no COZ this week.
We start 2021 on Tuesday 19 January at the usual times
With some really exciting conversations on chanukah, Nusiach, Idelsohn and Judeo Spanish Song
19 January 2021 – COZ 27 Professor Eliyahu Schleifer and Dr Naomi Cohn Zentner Lights and Blessings: Ashkenazi Chants and Music for Kindling th…[Read more]
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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic COZ this comng week in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoDear Friends and colleagues Join us for the next ‘Conversation on Zoom’
COZ 26: December 22, 2020. Michael Shapiro and Elliott Forrest
‘Composer in focus’Michael Shapiro composer/conductor In dialogue with Elliott ForrestPeabody Award winning Broadcaster/Producer/Director
The influence of Jewish heritage on Michael’s music, his Klezmer fa…[Read more]
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