back to upcoming COZ conversations
Below you can find a list of all previous Conversations on Zoom. Most are available to watch and listen again, and many are also accompanied by a report from a scholar in the field. Click on any week to learn more, and for links to archived recordings.
2021 sessions
COZ 62
14 December The last works of Noah Schall
David Presler in conversation with Sidney Dworkin
on Cantor Presler’s publication T’hillot Netsach, and his Hazzanut Notation Series
COZ 61
7 December – Ayal Adler in conversation with Malcolm Miller
COZ 60
30 November – Judit Frigyesi in conversation with Alex Klein
COZ 59
23 November Jewish Saharan Women’s songs for birth part 2
Vanessa Paloma Elbaz with Jonathan Glasser
COZ 58
16 November Who Killed Hazzanut?
Joshua Markovitz with Charles Heller
COZ 57
9 November Words and Music from the American Jewish experience
Jeremiah Lockwood with Rokhl Kafrissen and Eléonore Biezunski
COZ 56
2 November The Music of Terezin: Resistance and Memory
Rachel Adelstein with Karen Uslin
COZ 55
26 October – Wolf Krakowski in conversation with Jeff Janeczko
COZ 54
19 October Performing Chassidishkeit: Spirituality and Identity in Chabad niggunim
Michel Klein with Ellen Koskof
COZ 53
12 October Re-Collection: The Life and Work of Hazzan Zalman Pollak (1901-1985)
Amalia Kedem with Rafi Barnett
COZ 52
27 July – Dr Ilana Webster-Kogen Joe Loss Senior Lecturer in Jewish Music, SOAS, University of London
COZ 51
20 July – Mark Kligman on Mickey Katz, King of the Wild Frontier
COZ 50
29 June – Assaf Shelleg with Mark Kligman
‘Israeli Art Music as Art Music’
COZ 49
6 July – Samantha M Cooper with Dr Peter Graff and Dr Dorothy Glick Maglione
Jewish Immigrant Encounters with Music and Theatre in the United States
COZ 48
22 June – ‘Composer in focus’ Malcolm Miller and Julian Dawes
COZ 47
15 June – Yehuda Marx with Nathan Goldman
In defence of chazzanut
COZ 46
8 June – Cantor Benjamin Maissner with Alex Klein
From Shtibl to Pirchei Kodesh
COZ 45
1 June – Isabelle Ganz with Susana Weich-Shahak
Judeo-Spanish Song – from field recordings to professional ensembles (rescheduled from 16 February)
COZ 44
25 May – Teryl Dobbs with Stephen Muir
Tracking down composers from the Warsaw Ghetto
18 May – no session today – end of Shavouot
COZ 43
11 May – Dr Vanessa Paloma Elbaz with Dr Anija Dokter
Jewish Saharan songs for childbirth in the context of ancient Semitic ritual poetics
COZ 42
4 May – ‘Composer in Focus’ Marsha Dubrow with Michael Isaacson
COZ 41
27 April – Abigail Wood with Andreas Schmitges
Caravan Orchestra project: a collaboration between Yiddish Summer Weimar, Liszt Academy in Weimar, and University of Haifa
COZ 40
20 April – Jeremiah Lockwood with Meier Boruch Kohn, one of the foremost liturgical experts in the Brooklyn Satmar Chassidic community, and his son Yoel Kohn
COZ 39
13 April – Edwin Seroussi with Courtney Blue
New approaches to Ladino Song
COZ 38
6 April – UCLA ‘Composer in Focus’ Jeff Janeczko with Bruce Adolphe
COZ 37
30 March – Boaz Tarsi with Amalia Kedem
Does Ashkenazi Synagogue Music Have A Theory? part 2 Facing the facts (partial view)
COZ 36
23 March – Boaz Tarsi with Amalia Kedem
Does Ashkenazi Synagogue Music Have A Theory? part 1: What happens when you do not let the facts confuse you
COZ 35
16 March – Ilana Webster-Kogen with Phil Alexander
COZ 34
9 March – Joshua Horowitz and Friends
COZ 33
2 March – Dr Gordon Dale with a panel from Hebrew Union College
COZ 32
23 February – Professor Jehoash Hirshberg and Dr Irit Youngerman
COZ 31
16 February – Isabelle Ganz and Susana Weich-Shahak
COZ 30
9 February – Mark Slobin with Joshua Waletzky
COZ 29
2 February – Baruch Cohon and Jonathan Morgan (great grandson of AZ Idelsohn)
COZ 28
26 January – Cantor Jalda Rebling and Cantor Jaclyn Chernett
COZ 27
19 January – Professor Eliyahu Schleifer and Dr Naomi Cohn Zentner
2020 sessions
COZ 26
December 22 – Michael Shapiro. Elliott Forrest, ’Composer in focus’
COZ 25
December 15 – Agnes Kory, David Fligg Hungarian, Holocaust
COZ 24
December 08 – Daniel Katz, Boaz Tarsi
COZ 23
December 01 – Mark Kligman, Jeff Janeczko, David Amram ’Composer in focus’
COZ 22
November 24 – High Holydays, 6 Cantors liturgical
COZ 21
November 17 – Ofer Ben Amots, Rakefet Bar-Sadeh ’Composer in focus’
COZ 20
November 10 – Alex Klein, Cantor Sol Zim liturgical
COZ 19
November 03 – Lorry Black, Gila Flam
COZ 18
October 27 – Cantor Jalda Rebling, Cantor Jack Kessler liturgical, nusach
COZ 17
October 20 – Alexander Knapp, Charles Heller liturgical, nusach
COZ 16
October 13 – Martha Stellmacher, Sylwia Jakubczyk-Ślęczka, Veronika Seidlová
COZ 15
October 06 – Joel Rubin, Joshua Horowitz, Mark Kligman klezmer
29 September – no session this week
COZ 14
22 September – Zisl Slepovich, Stephen Naron Yiddish, Klezmer, Holocaust
COZ 13
September 15 – Yaacov Fisher, Alex Jacobs, Andrew Hopkins: Musical Theatre
COZ 12
September 08 – Jerry Glantz the ‘Night Project’ liturgical Holocaust
COZ 11
September 01 – Samuel Adler, Jeff Janeczko, Mark Kligman ’Composer in focus’
COZ 10
August 25 – Rachel Adelstein, Danielle Padley choral liturgical
COZ 9
August 18 – Mimi Sheffer, Ofra Yitzhaki classical liturgical
COZ 8
August 11 – David Fligg, Eva Fox Gal Holocaust classical
COZ 7
August 04 – Mark Kligman, Baruch Cohon liturgical
COZ 6
July 28 – High Holydays 2020 6 cantors liturgical
COZ 5
July 21 – Malcolm Miller, Malcolm Singer ’Composer in focus’
COZ 4
July 14 – Jeremiah Lockwood, Hankus Netsky liturgical
COZ 3
July 7 – Jehoash Hirshberg, Tzvi Avni ’Composer in focus’
COZ 2
June 30 – Matthew Austerklein, Abe Lubin liturgical
COZ 1
June 23 – Dr Naomi Cohn Zentner, Eli Schelifer liturgical