COZ 55

Dear friends and colleagues

Join us for the next COZ # 55, Tuesday October 26 

Jeff Janeczko in conversation with Wolf Krakowski

A look at the remarkable career and music of  Wolf Krakowski (born 1947) – a Polish-Canadian Yiddish-speaking songwriter, singer, and guitarist.

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‘Conversations on Zoom’…[Read more]

COZ today   
Michel Klein with Ellen Koskoff
Performing Chassidishkeit: Spirituality and Identity in Chabad niggunim

Every Tuesday: 09:00 Pacific time / 12.00 Eastern USA /  17:00 UK /  18:00 Western Europe /  19:00  Israel Follow the link below for zoom detai…[Read more]

STOP PRESS – for the first COZ of the new season Tuesday October 12
Dear friends and colleagues 

We are delighted that Dr Amalia Kedem has stepped into the breach when Cantor Robert Kieval had to withdraw to go and have open heart surgery. (We wish him a speedy recovery)  

So, please join us for COZ 53  tomorrow to hear

Dr Amalia Kedem of Nati…[Read more]

Reminder, COZ sarts again next week – Tuesday 12 October
Dear friends and colleagues

Join us for the first COZ of the new season

COZ 53, Tuesday October 12 – The Cantorial and Synagogue Music Archive 

Dr Jeremiah Lockwood UCLA Research Fellow and Cantor Robert Kieval Hazzan Emeritus, B’nai Israel, talk about
The Cantorial and Synagogue Mu…[Read more]

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

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

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 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]