IEBS Ernest Bloch BSG 3: Wed March 10

Join Joshua Friedlander who will talk aboutErnest Bloch: A Native American Musical Journey

This presentation will focus on the various influences on Bloch’s Violin Concerto of 1938, with special emphasis on Native American influence.
There will be time for questions and discussion after.

Joshua F…[Read more]

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Join us for COZ 34: March 9, 2021

Judeo-Futuristic Poetry and Music

Cosmic Diaspora: Joshua Horowitz, Jake Marmer, John Schott    

Members of the Cosmic Diaspora Trio will talk about their new record, and share their work:

Judeo-Futuristic Poetry and Music

Joshua Horowitz, award-winning composer, arranger, mu…[Read more]

Dear Friends and Colleagues Join us for COZ 32:  Tuesday February 23, 2021

for  Music in Israel’s Fromative years.

Professor Jehoash  Hirshberg

Emeritus professor at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. specialising in opera and Israeli Art Music with

Dr Irit Youngerman

Research and teaching fellow University of Haifa

Talk about ‘A Melody Th…[Read more]

Chart news for week of February 5

United Kingdom

The honor of the top 5 albums this week goes to all British artists, the top 4 all new releases making their chart debuts.

The #1 album, Celeste’s Not Your Muse, belongs to a debut album by a British woman for the first time since 2015.
The #2 album, Money Can’t Buy Happiness by rapper Fredo was…[Read more]

Due to the ongoing unprecedented ice storms in the Texas area, we may not be able to bring yo u the scheduled programme, as Isabelle is without electricity and internet.

Come in a usual and if its not possible then we will invite you to join a UCLA Milken Centre Live Zoom Masterclass with the contemporary Jewish musician Daniel Kahn.  Mark will…[Read more]

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Join us for COZ 31: Judeo Spanish Song  Tuesday February 16, 2021

Dr Isabelle Ganz

Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice, Eastman School of Music,  Mezzo-soprano and pioneer (1st L.P. 1980) in the performance of Sephardic music, forming her ensemble, Alhambra in 1981″.  http://www.alhambragroup.com

With Dr Susana We…[Read more]

The next Ernest Bloch Study Group Zoom Meeting takes place on

Wednesday February 10: at 5.00p, UK time.

Aaron Klaus talks about the Jewish Musical Markers in Ernest Bloch’s ‘Proclamation’ for Trumpet and Orchestra This presentation will provide an analysis of Bloch’s Proclamation for Trumpet and Orchestra (1955) grounded in “Jewish musical…[Read more]

Dear 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]

The 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]