Congratulations on the fine Newsletter of the Jewish Music Research Centre. This will certainly help to keep us all connected and infromed.

Hi everyone,

We are still looking for volunteers for the Special Session Proposal Committee! If you are interested but would rather not post on the discussion board, feel free to email me directly: antares [at] pdx.edu.

Best,

Tara (and Laura)

Dear Colleagues and Friends

Thank you and have a lovely summer

A big thank you, from all of us, to Ilana Webster-Kogen and Clara Wenz for a scintillating session today, on an area not often covered so far, to end our COZzes for the year.  We really enjoyed your enthusiastic presentation and the conversation which followed.

I want to thank all…[Read more]

COZ 52 – Dear Colleagues and Friends,
Please join us for COZ 52: Tuesday 27 July (the last COZ this season – starts again 5 October)

Ilana Webster Kogen in conversation with Clara Wenz – “Torah Scrolls from the Dar al-Islam: Theorizing a Diasporic Afterlife”
Tuesday 27th July 2021 : 09:00 Pacific time /  12.00 Eastern USA /  17:00 UK  / 18:00 We…[Read more]

Watch out for some exciting surprises for COZ 51: Today, 20 July:

Mark Kligman (left)Mickey Katz Endowed Chair in Jewish Music UCLA and Joel E Rubin (right)Assistant ProfessorVirginia University

Talk about  Musician and Comic Mickey Katz, King of the Wild Frontier

One important clarification: you cannot submit a proposal if you are on the committee!

-Tara

Thank you so much, Jesse!
Best,
Jen Malvin

Dear Jennifer,
Here’s the Zoom link:

https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/98715929073?pwd=Wmo2ZjVMeE5MM2x6NVlWNmF2aXM0UT09<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/northwestern.zoom.us/j/98715929073?pwd=Wmo2ZjVMeE5MM2x6NVlWNmF2aXM0UT09__;!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!GObzsUCzsVU-w4-YUX5x-U14jEp4dDnH5fzsv3Q3SYQGqLteR_u-GabqKWBQYyiVsw2fheYRifA$>

Best regards,
Jesse

Greetings,
Thank you, and I just wondered where the Zoom link is to join this
intriguing and interesting presentation by Mr. Silberstein.

Can you send me the Zoom link?
Thanks so much,
Jennifer Malvin (Los Angeles, Ca.)

ERNEST BLOCH’S PIANO SONATA: A PIANIST’S PERSPECTIVE.

Greetings all,

We look forward to seeing you all at the 7th meeting of the Ernest Bloch Study Group, which takes place this Wednesday, July 14,

at 5 PM London time, 9 AM on the West Coast of the United States, 11 AM Central time, and 12 noon Eastern time 6pm Europe, 7.00pm Israel – the usu…[Read more]

Shelleg/Miller Israeli Art Music COZ Rescheduled! – 13 July.

Dear Friends and Colleagues  Join us for COZ 50: Tuesday 13 July, 2021

‘Israeli Art Music as Art Music’(more details and bios in the attached poster)  

Dr Assaf Shelleg  Assistant Professor of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and award-winning author, talks about his…[Read more]

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Join us for COZ 49: Tuesday 06 July, 2021 

Jewish Immigrant Encounters with Music and Theatre in the United States

Samantha M Cooper with Dorothy Glick Maglione and Dr Peter Graff

Samantha M Cooper, PhD Candidate in Historical Musicology, New York University and Associate Executive Director of the ASJM Jewish…[Read more]

Shelleg/Miller COZ Rescheduled! – to COZ 50: 13 July

‘Israeli Art Music as Art Music’

Dear Friends and ColleaguesHuge apologies to those trying to get into the COZ Room yesterday! 

Though Mark and Lorry were away, we had made a good plan to open the room as usual –– but sadly it went wrong at the last moment and we were unable to open the ro…[Read more]

please use this link for today’s COZ

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81104050877?pwd=YTlJTE13S2RUTC9oWEdXWVBncldWZz09

geraldine

Thanks, Noah. You are absolutely correct–the format of the 2022IG is open and it won’t be planned for a while (actually, it will be planned by our new leadership team since Tara and I will be stepping down as co-chairs after this year’s meeting.)

Laura

COZ 49: Israeli Art Music as Art Music Drs Assaf Shelleg and Malcolm Miller

Dear Friends and Colleagues Join us for COZ 49:

Tuesday 29 June, 2021
‘Israeli Art Music as Art Music’ 

Dr Assaf Shelleg  Assistant Professor of Musicology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and award-winning author, talks about his recent book ‘Theological Stain…[Read more]

The overall three-event plan sounds wonderful! My one thought is that for the 2022 IG meeting, I don’t think we need to set a format yet. Amy Bauer is skeptical of lightning talks as noted above, and I’m not sure there how many people are working on Xenakis and would want to submit, so something more workshop-like might be a better fit. But of…[Read more]