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

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]

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
[https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Uh1mivMUQzA/hqdefault.jpg]<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh1mivMUQzA&gt;
Ernest Bloch Society Meeting, 18 November 2020 – YouTube<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh1mivMUQzA&gt;
Members of the…[Read more]

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/ 

Share event on Facebook here https://fb.me/e/2hgjWjaD9

IFJMS Jewish…[Read more]

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]