Dear Friends and Colleagues

Join us for COZ 37: Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Does Ashkenazi Synagogue Music have a Theory?

Part 2:  Facing the facts (partial view)

Dr Boaz TarsiAssociate professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary

And Dr Amalia KedemMember of the Music Department and Sound Archive of the Israel National Library in…[Read more]

The deadline for submission of abstracts for the section ‘Migrations and Transformations in Jewish Music’ at the Conference “Artistic Realities of Jewish Art” of the State Institute for Art Studies of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation is postponed to April 1, 2021. We are looking forward to submissions!

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Join us for COZ 36 and COZ 37: a two-parter on Tuesdays, March 23 and  30, 2021
Does Ashkenazi Synagogue music have a Theory?  

Dr Boaz Tarsi Associate professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary
Dr Amalia Kedem Member of the Music Department and Sound Archive of the Israel National Library in Jerusalem
Does A…[Read more]

Reminder of change of time in the UK and Europe today 16 and 23 March only.

COZ 35: March 16, 2021 Sounding Jewish in BerlinTuesdays:/ 09.00am Pacific time / 12.00noon Eastern USA / 4.00pm UK /  5.00pm Western Europe /  6.00pm  Israel

Dr Ilana Webster-Kogen

Joe Loss Senior Lecturer in Jewish Music SOAS University of London

Dr Philip Al…[Read more]

TIME SHIFT ALERT!!! affecting COZ  35 and 36 only  

The USA has put their clocks forward already this weekend and the rest of us are only doing so on Sunday 28 March!

So, for the next two weeks (Tuesdays 16 and 23 March) The USA will stick to the times as before – but for everyone else the COZ session will be one hour earlier!!

For the next two…[Read more]

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Join us for COZ 35: March 16, 2021

Sounding Jewish in Berlin 

Dr Ilana Webster-KogenJoe Loss Senior Lecturer in Jewish Music SOAS University of London

Dr Philip AlexanderBritish Academy Research Fellow, Reid School of Music University of Edinburgh

Discuss Phil’s new book:Sounding Jewish in Berlin: klezmer and the…[Read more]

IEBS Ernest Bloch BSG 3: Wed March 10

Join Joshua Friedlander who will talk aboutErnest Bloch: A Native American Musical Journey

This presentation will focus on the various influences on Bloch’s Violin Concerto of 1938, with special emphasis on Native American influence.
There will be time for questions and discussion after.

Joshua F…[Read more]

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]

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]

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]