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

Share the cur…[Read more]

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]

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]

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]

‘Bloch and Menuhin’ Wednesday 12 May 2021 5.00pm UK time

Join Malcolm Singer to hear about the close relationship between composer Ernest Bloch and Violinist Yehudi Menuhin

Yehudi pithily said of Ernest Bloch that he ‘was my first composer and I was his last performer.’ Indeed, Bloch’s Abodah was the first piece written especially for the young…[Read more]

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Join us for COZ 43: Jewish Saharan Songs for Childbirth Tuesday 11 May

Vanessa Paloma Elbaz and Anija Dokter 

Dr Vanessa Paloma Elbaz is Research Associate at the Faculty of Music of the University of Cambridge and Peterhouse and the Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow at INALCO and

Dr Anija Doktercompleted her PhD in…[Read more]

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Every Tuesday: 09:00 Pacific time / 12.00 Eastern USA / 17:00 UK / 18:00 Western Europe / 19:00 Israel (Come early The room will open 10 minutes early for greetings

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Join us for COZ 42: Tuesday, 04 May, 2021
Marsha Dubrow talks with Michael Isaacson on

‘Minhag America‘: Modern Jewish Sacred Music

Dr Michael Isaacson

Composer, conductor, producer, author, and educator par excellence with over 500 published Jewish sacred and secular works. He is a multi-award winner for his extra…[Read more]

COZ Today Reminder

Dear Friends and Colleagues Join us for COZ 41:  The Caravan Orchestra Project

Tuesday, April 27, 2021
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Dr Abigail Wood

Senior Lecturer, Department of Music Haifa University

Andreas Schmitges

Professional klezmer musician (guitar and mandolin) discuss

The Caravan Orchestra Project – A collaboration between Yi…[Read more]