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]

I take it you’re looking for examples less than a decade old?

Both SZA’s “Broken clocks” (2017) and Azealia Banks’s “Anna Wintour” (2018) include melodic sequences that are constructed from pentatonic scales … so, the generic melodic intervals don’t necessarily match, but the csegs do.

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]

Hi Christine, I just thought I’d mention that it’s not obvious which “way” the numbers are supposed to be ranked. I assumed #1 was top priority and #4 was lowest but someone else may have interpreted this differently! You may wish to reply here to clarify or include that note in the instructions themselves.

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]

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Join us for COZ 29: Tuesday February 2, 2021

Rabbi Boruh Cohon in conversation with Jonathan Morgan
to talk about  The Fish and the Phonograph, the Life and work of AZ Idelsohn

Retired Cantor and Rabbi, Baruch Cohon was revered pioneering Jewish ethnomusicologist, AZ Idelsohn’s, youngest student from the age of fi…[Read more]

Hi all,

lovely seeing many of you at the meeting yesterday.

As requested, here’s a description of our organization, the JSMSG:

The Jewish Studies and Music Study Group (JSMSG) is a study group of the American Musicological Society (AMS). Our core activities revolve around the annual AMS conference, where we organize an academic panel about…[Read more]

On 24 Jan 2021, at 16:17, Simon Broughton <simon.broughton@btconnect.com> wrote:

Dear Friends

To mark Holocaust Memorial Day this year, JMI is screening The Music of Terezin, a documentary I made nearly 30 years ago about the Jewish musicians and composers imprisoned in the Terezín (Theresienstadt) ghetto in WWII Czechoslovakia. (Apologies to…[Read more]