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
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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

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]

VOC #6 Sephardi v Ashkenazi

Is the role of a Sephardi cantor the same – or very different from the Ashkenazi?

Register here http://bit.ly/eca-voc

Hear from some exceptional practitioners from the UK and North America who have worked in both spheres and can explain.

This session is co-hosted by the Cantors Association of America and moderated b…[Read more]

‘Bloch and Menuhin’ Wednesday 12 May 2021 5.00pm UK time

Join Malcolm Singer to hear about the close relationship between composer Ernest Bloch and Violinist Yehudi Menuhin

Yehudi pithily said of Ernest Bloch that he ‘was my first composer and I was his last performer.’ Indeed, Bloch’s Abodah was the first piece written especially for the young…[Read more]

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Join us for COZ 43: Jewish Saharan Songs for Childbirth Tuesday 11 May

Vanessa Paloma Elbaz and Anija Dokter 

Dr Vanessa Paloma Elbaz is Research Associate at the Faculty of Music of the University of Cambridge and Peterhouse and the Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow at INALCO and

Dr Anija Doktercompleted her PhD in…[Read more]

Somehow the Time for COZ was left out

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Every Tuesday: 09:00 Pacific time / 12.00 Eastern USA / 17:00 UK / 18:00 Western Europe / 19:00 Israel (Come early The room will open 10 minutes early for greetings

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Join us for COZ 42: Tuesday, 04 May, 2021
Marsha Dubrow talks with Michael Isaacson on

‘Minhag America‘: Modern Jewish Sacred Music

Dr Michael Isaacson

Composer, conductor, producer, author, and educator par excellence with over 500 published Jewish sacred and secular works. He is a multi-award winner for his extra…[Read more]

COZ Today Reminder

Dear Friends and Colleagues Join us for COZ 41:  The Caravan Orchestra Project

Tuesday, April 27, 2021
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Dr Abigail Wood

Senior Lecturer, Department of Music Haifa University

Andreas Schmitges

Professional klezmer musician (guitar and mandolin) discuss

The Caravan Orchestra Project – A collaboration between Yi…[Read more]

VOC #5   The Carlebach Conundrum

VJoin the Europen Cantors Association to hear what a Carlebach service means? and what  the effect is on the congregation and the tradition?

Tune in on Wednesday 28 April to hear from 5 panellists in conversation with Russell Grossman of ECA Register at http://bit.ly/eca-voc      

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Dear Friends and Colleagues

Join us for COZ 41:  The Caravan Orchestra Project

Tuesday, April 27, 2021
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Dr Abigail WoodSenior Lecturer, Department of Music Haifa University

Andreas Schmitges  Professional klezmer musician (guitar and mandolin) discuss

The Caravan Orchestra Project – A collaboration between Yiddish Summer Wei…[Read more]

Dear Friends and Colleagues Join us for COZ 40: Chassidic cantorial revival  

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Dr Jeremiah Lockwood

Musician (Sway Machinery) part time cantor, and scholar at Stanford University with

Meier Boruch Kohn one of the foremost liturgical experts in the Brooklyn Satmar Chassidic community and his son

Yoel Kohn a cantorial…[Read more]

IEBS Bloch Study Group (BSG)  Wednesday April 14

Jesse Rosenberg, head of the IEBS Bloch Study Group will himself be presenting on

Bloch’s reception in Fascist Italy in the 1930s (BSG)

sessions take place on the second Wednesday of every month, via Zoom at 09:00 Pacific time / 12.00 Eastern USA /  17:00 UK /  18:00 Western Europe /  19:00 …[Read more]

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Join us for COZ 39: New approaches to Ladino Song  

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Prof Edwin Seroussi Emanuel Alexandre Professor of Musicology at the Hebrew University and Director of the Jewish Music Research Centre.

with Courtney Blue

an American-Israel graduate student at the Department of Musicology of the H…[Read more]

Dear Friends and Colleagues Join us for COZ 38: Tuesday, April 06, 2021
‘Composer in Focus’ Bruce Adolphe

Jeff Janeczko, Curator and Chief Operating Officer of the Milken Archive of Jewish Music, talks to

Bruce Adolphecomposer, author, and public speaker known to millions of Americans for his public radio shows.

Jeff Janeczko is also a Vis…[Read more]