Monday, 9 September - Ashkenazi Nusach and Prayer Modes
Venue: Neues Haus 1
11.30 13:30 Registration
1:30-2:00 Official Opening Introductions
Welcome Address by Prof. Dr. Sarah Ross, Director of the EZJM and Prof. Dr. Eckart Altenmüller, Vice President of the Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media
2:00-3:30 Keynote 1. Judit Frigyesi: Life Experience and Musical Structure, or What Makes a Melody “Jewish”. Round Table Discussion with Veronika Seidlová
Session 1. Nusach and Prayer Tunes
4:00-4:30 Miranda Crowdus: The Synagogue Music of the Romaniote Jews: Challenges in Documentation and Analysis
4:30-5:00 Giula Shamilli: Avinu Malkeinu: Jewish Prayer and the Classical Traditions of the Middle Eastern Music
5:00-6:00 Parallel sessions
a) Jalda Rebling: Workshop. T´hillim - Renewing the Old Psalmody in Our Modern Liturgy? A Work in Progress Experience
b) Yoni Rose accompanied by Andor Izsák: Concert. From Slavery to Freedom
6:00-7:30 Reception meal
7:30-8.30 Performance Session with compositions by Daniel Katz, David Ezra Okonsar and Samuel Alman
Tuesday, 10 September - European Roots and Beyond
Venue: Senatssaal, Hindenburgstr. 2-4
Session 2. Oral and Written Traditions. Dedicated to the Memory of Victor Tunkel
9:30-10:00 Benjamin Wolf: Modal Modulation in the ‘Old Melodies’ of Marcus Hast
10:00-10:30 Benjy Fox-Rosen: The Paradox of Continuity: The Vienna Stadttempel Choir
10:30-11:00 Jeremiah Lockwood: Animating the Archive: “Golden Age” Records and Cantorial Revival in the Brooklyn Chassidic Community Today
11:00-11:30 Veronika Seidlová: Cantorial Recordings in Communist Czechoslovakia: On the Social Life of Audio Recordings of Jewish Liturgical Music from/in Prague and their “Agency"
1:30-3:00 Contemporary Synagogue Music in Germany. Round Table Discussion with Cantors in Germany
Session 3. Cantors as Composers
3:30-4:00 Malcolm Miller: Liturgy for the Concert Hall: Musical Influences in the Songs and Chamber Works of Samuel Alman (1877-1947)
4:00-4:30 Marsha Dubrow: In the Key of Female: Music and Gender in the Modern American Cantorate
4:30-5:00 Tamara Jurkić Sviben: Chief Cantor David Meisel - a Religious-Cultural Transfer of Synagogue Worship in Northern Croatia between the two World Wars
5:30-6:00 Lecture Recital. Assaf Levitin: Coplas Sefardies by Alberto Hemsi (Neues Haus 1, Lecture theatre 202)
6:00 7:00 Jeanne Zaidel Rudolf: The Power of the Nigun (Lecture theatre 202)
8.00 Conference dinner with open mic entertainment at the Liberal Jewish community
Wednesday, 11 September - The American Experience; Cultural Sustainability
Venue: Senatssaal, Hindenburgstr. 2-4
Panel 1. Education and New Rituals in American Jewish Liturgical Music
9:30-10:00 Coreen Duffy: Synagogue Music in the Secular Spotlight: Nudging Jewish Choral Repertoire Toward the Concert Canon
10:00-10:30 Lorry Black: Music of the Holocaust in Synagogue Practices
10:30-11:00 Judah Cohen: The Education Track: Debbie Friedman in Houston
11:30-12:30 Keynote 2. Mark Kligman: American Jewish Liturgical Music: European Roots and New Influences
Session 5. Women
1:30-2:00 Mili Leitner Cohen: Chodesh tov! Women and the Weaponization of Liturgy at the Kotel
2:00-2:30 Danielle Padley: The Female Voice in Anglo-Jewish Worship: Home, Holy Days and Holidays
2:30-4:00 Knowledge Café with tea/coffee – Jewish Music and Cultural Sustainability
4:30-6:30 Sightseeing tour
8:00-9:30 Public Concert. Jewish Women Composers. A concert with commentary, featuring compositions from the 19th century until today. EZJM Ensemble (Neues Haus 1, Lecture theatre 202)
Thursday, 12 September - Synagogue Music(s) in Theory and Practice
Venue: Senatssaal, Hindenburgstr. 2-4
Session 6. Composers and Works
9:30-10:00 Liran Gurkiewicz: Max Brod: Musical Narratives in Jewish Music
10:00-10:30 Sylwia Jakubczyk-Ślęczka: Liturgical Compositions of the Prewar Galician Synagogues. Modernization or Stagnation?
10:30-11:00 Hervé Roten: Psalm Recitation in the Spanish-Portuguese Rite (France): Formulation Processes and Musical Syntax
Panel 2. Manuscript and Printed Sources of 19th Century Jewish Liturgical Music in Europe
11:15-11:45 Mark Kligman: From Meshorerim to Early Choral Music of the Synagogue 1790-1840
11:45-12:15 Daniel Katz: A Chestnut, a Grape, and a Pack of Lion: A Shabbat with Cantor Shlomo, Better Known as Kashtan
12:15-12:45 Geoffrey Goldberg: The Role of the Meshorer in the Training of the Ashkenazic German Cantor and the Musical Impact of the Demise of the Meshorer-Assistant between ca. 1830–1850
2:00-3:30 Closing session