So many questions and passionate responses were sparked off last Tuesday in the opening Nusach debate on COZ 17– a wonderful space to air all views.

(You can see most of this session here https://www.facebook.com/IFJMS)

Tune in there again to listen, or on Zoomto participate,  this coming Tuesday 27 October for the next thrilling instalment pr…[Read more]

Nusach Wars!

Join in the argument – is nusach dead – or just being reborn?

The next two Conversations on Zoom take on this challenge.

COZ 17: October 20: Charles Heller choir conductor for over 50 years, and Alexander Knapp scholar, composer and accompanist for cantors, put forward the warning of:

‘The Death of Nusach and Chazzanut – the Los…[Read more]

Join us for COZ 16:

Tuesday 13 OctoberMartha StellmacherAssociate of the European Centre for Jewish music Hannover

with Sylwia Jakubczyk-Ślęczka (Jagiellonian University, Kraków) and

Veronika Seidlová(Charles University Prague) 

The state of research on Jewish liturgical music in Poland and the Czech Republic

Zoom Log-in https://hcommons-stag…[Read more]

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Tuesdays: 09:00 Pacific time / 12.00 Eastern USA /  17:00 UK /  18:00 Western Europe /  19:00  Israel

COZ 15: Tuesday 06 October

Joel E Rubin  PhD in ethnomusicology from City, University London (2001) Acclaimed performer and Associate Prof Virginia. Author of New…[Read more]

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COZ 14: Tuesday 22 Sept 2020

Zisl Slepovitch  ethnomusicologist, composer, performer, conductor, educator. Musician-in-Residence (Research Affiliate) Fortunoff Video Archive

With
Stephen Naron Director…[Read more]

Thank you, Rosa, for this information, and I’d be interested to be kept updated on developments.

Best wishes,

David

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COZ 13: Tuesday 15 Sept 2020   

Yaakov Fisher
Who runs the
‘Spectacular World of Jewish Music’ festival in Israel
with
Andrew Hopkins, Alex Jacobs, Lawrence Jacobsof the Welsh Musical Theatre Orchestra

Does Musical Theatre Illuminate the Jewish Experience and ther…[Read more]

Shalom, Geraldine.

I know that Cantor David Tilman has a discussion idea about which he would like me to interview him. Whom shall we approach?

Thanks, Marshall

Marshall Portnoy, Cantor Emeritus
Main Line Reform Temple
Wynnewood, Pennsylvania

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COZ 12: Tuesday 08 Sept 2020 Jerry Glantz with Cantor and composer Joseph Ness – who recomposed and orchestrated Leib Glan…[Read more]

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COZ 11: Tuesday 01 Sept 2020Samuel Adler American composer, conductor, author, and professor. Over six decades he has served as a faculty member at both University of Rochester’s Eastman School…[Read more]

If you have ever sung in a Jewish choir, or other singing community, you will want to hear the ‘Conversation on Zoom’ This coming Tuesday 25 August, between Danielle Padley (Cambridge UK) and Rachel Adelstein (Connecticut) on Anglo-Jewish Singing Communities:  Past, Present, and Future

(The International Forum for Jewish Music Studies has its…[Read more]

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COZ 10: Tuesday 25 Aug 2020Dr Rachel Adelstein
Ethnomusicologist & Managing Editor, Musica Judaica Online Reviews with
Danielle Padley
Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Cambridge

Anglo-Jewish Singing Communities:  Past, Present, and Futu…[Read more]

Dear Colleagues and Friends

The topic that Israeli classical singer/ Berlin Cantor, Mimi Sheffer and Israeli Pianist, Ofra Yitzhaki will address on Tuesday will be

Performing the music of one’s own people as part of a classical musician’s search for artistic identity

hope to see you there

‘Conversations on Zoom’Every Tuesday: 09:00 Pac…[Read more]

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COZ 9: Tuesday 18 August 2020

Cantor Mimi ShefferIsraeli born and trained classical singer Mimi became Cantor in New York and then of the New Synagogue Orianiernburger Strasse in Berlin 

Dr Ofra Yitzhaki Pianist Doctorate from Juilliard & member of the f…[Read more]

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COZ 8: Tuesday 11 August 2020

David Fligg

Tutor in Academic Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, and author of the 2019 Czech publication ( (Letter from Gideon), the first full-length biography on Klein in a quarter of a century

Eva Fox Gal

Daughter of Austrian com…[Read more]