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

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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]

Thanks, Walt!

Thanks to those with suggestions for my African American pop music course. I’ve finished drafting a 73-page syllabus with lengthy bib and tracklist that’s too large to attach here. Please email me at weverett at umich.edu [with @ for ” at “] and I’ll be happy to send you a copy.

Keith, my favorite rock octatonic passage is the guitars/bass trio in the transition of “You Never Give Me Your Money.”

There are a number of equal divisions of the octave, such as in the Fifth Dimension’s “Up—Up and Away,” the Doors’ “Touch Me” and Lorraine Feather’s “The Girl with the Lazy Eye.” I may list others in Foundations of Rock. Have fu…[Read more]

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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

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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]

thanks, Beth–good to hear from you. My bib and listening guide is coming along by leaps and bounds, but I hadn’t come across that journal yet. I’ll put my syllabus up by the end of the month.

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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]

Hi Walt,

Not sure if you’re familiar with the Journal of Hip Hop Studies, but it’s a wonderful open-access, peer reviewed journal that you might find useful for your course.

Enjoy!

Beth