Reminder: Tomorrow Mark Kligman will be in conversation the legendary Baruch Cohon

Mark Kligman
Professor of Ethnomusicology and Musicology, Herb Alpert School of Music UCLA and Director of Lowell Milken Fund for American Jewish Music in dialogue with
Baruch Cohon
Rabbi and cantor in California lecturer University of Judaism, Hebrew Union Musical…[Read more]

Shalom, Geraldine. Is there a meeting tomorrow at Noon Eastern Tine? Thanks, Marshall

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

Thanks so much for posting, Noriko–huge help!

Thanks for posting, Brad! Btw, I’ve already gleaned appropriate items from the syllabi posted at the PMIG site.

Hi all,

Thanks to Walt and Brad for getting the conversation started.

1.I think in a course on African American music, it is important to include the voices of Black scholars. Here are a few, keeping analysis in mind:

Shelley, Braxton D. 2019. “Analyzing Gospel.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 72 (1): 181–243. https://doi.org/10.1…[Read more]

Hi Everybody. I replied to Walt privately with some readings from my own version of this class, but it’s too important not to share here as well:

Attas, Robin. 2019. “Music Theory as Social Justice: Pedagogical Applications of Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly.” Music Theory Online 25/1
< http://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.19.25.1/mto.19.25.1.attas.h&hellip;[Read more]

 The next ‘Conversation on Zoom’ (COZ) Tuesday 4 August 2020
Mark Kligman

Professor of Ethnomusicology and Musicology, Herb Alpert School of Music UCLA and Director of Lowell Milken Fund for American Jewish Music in dialogue with

Baruch Cohon

Rabbi and cantor in California lecturer University of Judaism, Hebrew Union Musical editor on the 3rd…[Read more]

 The next ‘Conversation on Zoom’ (COZ) Tuesday 28 July 2020

What’s on your mind?

The High Holydays 2020: how will they sound in Lockdown, and what are the implications for Cantors in the future?

Curated by Russell Grossman for ECA with international cross-denominational panel including Alex Klein, Manchester and Jeremiah Lockwood, Califo…[Read more]

Next week’s ‘Conversation on Zoom’ (COZ) Tuesday 21 July 2020

Join Malcolm Miller and Malcolm Singer discussing ‘The Composer in Lockdown: Malcolm Singer’s Jewish Works’ 

Tuesday 21 July 2020: Pacific: 09:00 /  Eastern USA: 12.00 /  UK: 17:00 /  Western Europe 18:00 /  Israel 19:00  (The room will open 15 minutes early for greetings and soc…[Read more]

Next week’s ‘Conversation on Zoom’ Tuesday 14 July (COZ) 14 July 2020

We invite you to join Jeremiah Lockwood PhD candidate at Stanford University Graduate School and accomplished radical Jewish musicians- (Sway Machinery), in dialogue with and Hankus Netsky Multi-instrumentalist, composer, teacher and scholar, founder-director of the Klezm…[Read more]

The ‘Speed Sessions’ (last Tuesday of the Month in the COZ slot) will be an opportunity to speak about ‘What is on your Mind’. The Theme for 28 July is:

‘High Holidays: what will they sound like in Lockdown and how might this impact on cantors in the future’.

This is a cross demoninational platform.

If you woud like to speak for ten minutes…[Read more]

Tuesday 7 July 2020
Pacific: 09:00 /  Eastern USA: 12.00 /  UK: 17:00 /  Western Europe 18:00 /  Israel 19:00  (The room will open 15 minutes early for greetings and socialising).

We invite you to join Professor Jehoash Hirshberg and Rakefet Bar-Sadeh
in dialogue with Israeli Composer Tzvi Avni (b 1927)about his long creative career, with exam…[Read more]

Reminder for COZ this wee: Tuesday 30 June

Cantor Matthew Austerklein  Beth El Congregation, Akron, Ohio
in dialogue with
Cantor Abraham Lubin
Past-President of the Cantors Assembly on sixty-five years as a cantor across three continents.

See the updated COZ Ongoing document attached with all the programmes.

Zoom Log-in https://hcommons-staging.&hellip;[Read more]

The recording of the first Conversation on Zoom (Professsor Eliyahu Schleifer and Dr Naomi Cohn-Zentner, 23 June 2020) as well as the Powerpoint Presentation is available for download here.

Many thanks to both speakers and the large audience (more than 70 participants)!