Scholars, practitioners and archivists engage in dialogue with a colleague about their special interests and approaches to their work. The discussion is open to all who tune in.
Every Tuesday: 09:00 Pacific time / 12.00 Eastern USA / 17:00 UK / 18:00 Western Europe / 19:00 Israel
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RECENT AND FORTHCOMING CONVERSATIONS – 2022
COZ 63
11 January Judeo-Spanish songs: geographical and metaphorical travels
Judith Cohen in conversation with Jessica Roda
COZ 64
18 January Jewish Music at our Fingertips – the new website of the European Jewish Music Centre, Paris
Herve Roten with Martha Stellmacher
COZ 65
Jan 25 The Jewish music of David Ezra Okonsar
Alex Klein with David Ezra Okonsar
COZ 66
Feb 1 Yiddish music archives as a living space between research and creativity
Eleonore Biezunski with Mark Slobin
COZ 67
Feb 8 Bringing Jewish music to the concert stage: London and Jerusalem
Yaakov Fisher with Geraldine Auerbach
COZ 68
Feb 15 The Music of Josef Tal part 1
Jehoash Hirshberg and Michael Wolpe, hosted by Malcolm Miller
COZ 69
Feb 22 The Music of Josef Tal part 2
Jehoash Hirshberg, Shoshana Ze’evi, Yosef Goldenberg and Liran Gurkevich, hosted by Malcolm Miller
COZ 70
Mar 1 Contesting the Boundaries of Moroccan Jewish Identity
Samuel Torjman Thomas
COZ 71
Mar 8 Musical notes, Jewish and otherwise
Marsha Dubrow and Judith Shatin
COZ 72
Mar 15 Musical riches and transnational networks: the Kiselgof-Makonovetsky Digital
Manuscript Project
Christina Crowder in conversation with Phil Alexander
COZ 73
Mar 22 Discovering and Presenting the Music of Terezin on stage and TV
Simon Broughton in conversation with Geraldine Auerbach
COZ 74
Mar 29 Exploring Jewish Music Sound Recording Collections in the United States
Judith S. Pinnolis and Mark Kligman
COZ 75
Apr 5 – Di Megile fun Vaymar, part 1: The Book of Esther for 21st-century Weimar
Alan Bern
COZ 76
Apr 12 – Di Megile fun Vaymar, part 2
Alan Bern
Apr 19 & 26 – no session (pesach)
COZ 77
May 3 – Hallel: Psalms of Praise
Beny Maissner
COZ 78
May 10 – The Music of Max Stern
Max Stern in conversation with Alex Klein
COZ 79
May 17 – The Oral History Project of American Jewish Music
Mark Kligman, Jeff Janeczko, Beth Kraemer
COZ 80
May 24 – Musician in focus
Paul Shapiro in conversation with Jeff Janeczko
COZ 81
May 31 – Jewish music from the American Musicological Society
Amanda Ruppenthal Stein, Ann Glazer Niren, Samantha M Cooper
COZ 82
June 7 – composer in focus
Michael Hunter Ochs in conversation with Lorry Black
COZ 83
June 14 – Laughing at Hitler: Soviet Yiddish Music and Humour During World War II
Anna Shternshis and Psoy Korolenko
(please note – this is a re-broadcast of a session given by the Jewish Music Forum (ASJM) on March 21, 2022)
COZ 84
June 21 – Michael Jolles’ Encyclopaedia of British Jewish Cantors, Chazanim, Ministers and Synagogue Musicians
Dr Michael Jolles, David Prager and Cantor Yehuda Marx
COZ 85 – FINAL SESSION BEFORE SUMMER BREAK
June 28 – György Kurtág’s Kafka: Alienation and Consolation in Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments for Soprano and Violin
William Kinderman in conversation with Malcolm Miller
To arrange your own COZ: Pick a partner and subject, contact phil.alexander@ed.ac.uk to fit this in to the weekly Tuesday COZ programme.