Hello everyone and thank you for sharing your thoughts.
Tara and I discussed some possibilities and this is what we propose:

• 2021 Post-1945 IG meeting: Diversity and Inclusion in the Pedagogy of Contemporary Music Analysis workshop with Robert Hasegawa
• 2022 SMT Special session on pedagogy
• 2022 Post-1945 IG meeting: lightning talks on…

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Dear Friends
In advance of our COZ 48 on Tuesday 22 June, about the music of British Composer Julian Dawes, we thought it would be good to share a link to ‘Echoes of the Soul’ CD extracts featuring music we shall discuss during the COZ, so participants can enjoy an aperitif.   This is the l…[Read more]

Dear Geraldine,
The video is now posted to the Bloch playlist:

Best regards,
Jesse
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Ernest Bloch Society Meeting, 18 November 2020 – YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh1mivMUQzA&gt;
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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

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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

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Oh geez, yes. That’s on me. My apologies. The IG I attend most often is
still working out it’s 2021 activities . . .

Got it! Sorry, I misunderstood the source of confusion. I think this discussion is to plan a session for the 2022 conference.

Best,
Chris

(Right, Chris—had meant that the Xenakis celebration could wait for 2022.)

I really like the Xenakis session idea! I don’t know much about Xenakis’s music, and I’d love to learn from people who have studied it. (Sorry Keith—Xenakis was definitely born in 1922.)

The pedagogy idea is great, too. I could contribute a proposal to be considered for that session, something I couldn’t do for Xenakis.

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Hi, all,

I, too, am in favor of a pedagogy-focused, Post-1945-sponsored session, especially if it’s broadly conceived (as it currently seems to be).

Hope you’re all well!

Hi everyone,

long-time listener, first-time ‘caller’ . . .

I like Antares’s ideas about pedagogy, and think that a session on that
would be timely—whether it’s carefully limited to post-1945 or not. So,
I’ll second that.

Maybe Xenakis waits until next year, where he hits that nice, round number?

Hi Amy, thanks for your thoughts! To clarify, this isn’t for the interest group meeting itself—this would be for a special session proposal that would go through the normal SMT proposal process. If accepted, it would be a normal paper session that is “sponsored” by the IG. This is something a few of the IGs have done in recent years. The special s…[Read more]

I have been vocal about my support for workshop-type presentations in the past, but I realize that lightning talks are the most common structure for the IG meetings. Here is one compromise that fills in the gap: summary discussions of the general techniques common in any of the anniversary composers. It would be very useful, for instance, for…[Read more]