Dear Geraldine,
The video is now posted to the Bloch playlist:

Best regards,
Jesse
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Ernest Bloch Society Meeting, 18 November 2020 – YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh1mivMUQzA&gt;
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Dear Friends and Colleagues

Join us for COZ 48: Tuesday 22 June, 2021
Composer in Focus: Julian Dawes 

Malcolm Miller musicologist and pianist, Associate Lecturer at the Open University, UK, and lecturer at the City Literary Institute and Morley College in dialogue with British Composer Julian Dawes prolific composer for the theatre and…[Read more]

IFJMS Networks meeting 14 June 2021

Thank you all for coming to the networks meeting today – those who came to speak and those who came to listen and join in the discussion. All the presentations were very interesting. Many ideas popped up for finding ways of sharing zoom conversations and presentations of the various groups. As Gordon Dale of t…[Read more]

Dear Friends and Colleagues Join us for COZ 47: In Defence of Chazonus

Tuesday, 15 June, 2021

Yehuda MarxChazzan of Heaton Park Shul Manchestertalks to

Nathan GoldmanGraduate of Tel Aviv Cantorial Institute and cantor in Stuttgart since 2017on what led Yehuda to write his highly acclaimed book of the same title and about the problems Chazonim…[Read more]

Join us for the IFJMS Jewish Music Networks – Meeting #2:
Monday 14 June 2021   

09:00 Pacific time /  12.00 Eastern USA /  17:00 UK  / 18:00 Western Europe / 19:00 Israel
Zoom Log-in https://hcommons-staging.org/groups/jewish-music-1255310724/events/conversation-on-zoom/ 

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Dear Colleagues and Friends

Please join us for COZ 46: Tuesday 8 June, 2021
From Shtibl to Pirchei Kodesh   

Cantor Benjamin Maissner Cantor Emeritus of Holy Blossom Temple of Toronto and a teacher and performer world wide talks to  Alex Klein Director of the European Cantors Association on his cantorial journey and philosophy

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Bloch and the Viola

Rivka Golani,  talks to Alexander Knapp

Wednesday 9 June at 5.00pm British Summer Time

and we hear some of Rivka’s anmazing recordings of Bloch’s viola works

The Zoom link that takes you right to the session is:

https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/98715929073?pwd=Wmo2ZjVMeE5MM2x6NVlWNmF2aXM0UT09i

n case you need it, the ID is…[Read more]

Scroll down through thread replies for an archive of previous weeks.Apologies for the lag in chart updates, MEIEA planning has been taking my full attention. I *wrote* the chart roundups for April, but apparently forgot to post them to the internet. So let’s just skip over that and get back to it with the week before last.
Week of May…[Read more]

VOC #7 Who needs Nusach? Part 1

What do we mean by nusach and wherein lies its importance? Is this centuries-old tradition, the immutable structure for the music of Ashkenazi prayer? Or is the melody of the synagogue more changeable and less constant than we think? Is it OK to introduce modern Israeli tunes? Carlebach tunes? Secular songs or even…[Read more]

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Join us for COZ 44: Composers from Warsaw Ghetto

Tuesday,  25 May, 2021    

Professor Teryl Dobbs

Chair of Music Education in the Mead Witter School of Music, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Talks with Dr Stephen Muir Senior lecturer in music Leeds University

about
Tracking down and performing music by com…[Read more]

Chart news for the week of March 26
UK
Albums
Justin Bieber had the most streamed album in the UK this week, getting 25.4 million track hits from his new release, Justice.In physical sales, Lana del Rey set a new record for fastest-selling vinyl of the century (for a female act). Her new album Chemtrails sold 16,700 LPs this week. She has the…[Read more]

Reminder:

‘Bloch and Menuhin’

Today Wednesday 12 May 2021  at 09:00 Pacific time / 12.00 Eastern USA / 17:00 UK / 18:00 Western Europe / 19:00 Israel. The Zoom link is as follows: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/98715929073?pwd=Wmo2ZjVMeE5MM2x6NVlWNmF2aXM0UT09 The meeting ID in case you need it is 987 1592 9073 and the pass code is 4152…[Read more]

VOC #6 Sephardi v Ashkenazi

Is the role of a Sephardi cantor the same – or very different from the Ashkenazi?

Register here http://bit.ly/eca-voc

Hear from some exceptional practitioners from the UK and North America who have worked in both spheres and can explain.

This session is co-hosted by the Cantors Association of America and moderated b…[Read more]