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Lori Cahan-Simon
American. Yiddish singer. Performs with her ensemble, using varied Yiddish programs of holiday songs, children's songs and folk and theater favorites at festivals, concerts, schools, at simkhes.
Abigail Cantor
American klezmer musician. Madison, Wisconsin.
Neshama Carlebach
Daughter of famed singer Shlomo Carlebach. Tours widely in the United States, Europe and Israel. Neshama performs many "women only" concerts for orthdox Jewish women as well as mixed concerts in other venues. She has a website which lists her discography.http://www.neshamacarlebach.com/home.html
Jackie Carlyle
Jewish singer/songwriter. Her song about Israel, SOULS IN THE BREEZE is on
the Jewish Agency for Israel website. Clips of her singing are on her website. I have always felt that writing came through me; it was a gift given to me by some higher power, especially the words. If I had the choice, I don t think I would have chosen this path for myself; I feel it chose me. Jackie s song You Are My Anchor" was #2 on the charts under Elton John s Circle of Love in Holland. He website includes a bio, photos, clips and links.
http://www.jackiecarlyle.com
Nellie Casman
Born 1896 in Proskurov, Russia. Died, May 27, 1984 in New York City. Casman came to US in early 1900s. She began in the Yiddish theater as a child star. She performed in Yiddish theater in South America, Europe and throughout the US playing comic Yiddish roles. Nahama Sandrow, in her book Vagabond Stars, refers to Casman as "one of the rare female kuplétists, tiny and round..." The kuplét was a comedic patter song that had little to do with the action of a show. In some shows Casman combined this with the "red hot mama" style where she "starts to shake her bosom, which makes one cozy curve from shoulder to waist. She vibrates all over, till even the absurd red flower sticking up on top of her head jiggles, too and she looks down at her own chest with such childlike surprise and satisfaction that the audience roars with delight." She performed in shows such as "The Girl from Argentina" and "The Drunkard". These antics and her suggestive lyrics were criticized by some, but audiences loved her. She also wrote music. The most famous tune she composed was, "Yosel, Yosel." Casman married Samuel Steinberg with whom she collaborated on "Yosel, Yosel" and many other songs and shows. They wrote "The Showgirl" a musical comedy that was performed in 1982 at the Shalom Yiddish Musical Comedy Theater at Town Hall in New York. Casman lived in Manhattan and died at St. Vincent Hospital at age 88. (Special thanks to Victor Berch, retired Brandeis University Special Collections Librarian, with research help for this entry.)
Nira Chen
Israeli. Born, Kibbutz Ein Harod. Studied piano in Jerusalem. Wrote several piano pieces, children's songs, popular songs, such as "Iti Milvanon", and 'folk songs', including the world famous "Dodi Li", which many people today think of as a genuine folk tune. The tune is often used for choirs, but has received many arrangemenets, such as this one available online at the Boosey and Hawkes website:
http://www.boosey.com/pages/making/composer/sample_detail.asp?sampleid=10287
A pdf score of the music appears at:
http://members.aol.com/gabrielaw9/dodi.pdf
Susan Cogan
Born Toronto, Canada. Moved to Jerusalem, Israel in 1966 where she began singing at the age of 15. In the 1970s in the duo Susan & Fran, these Canadian women achieved fame, with their songs now standards in Israel. Recorded, "Susan Cogan o-n-e", a collection of her original folk and soft-rock songs. Toured Canada in 1981. In 1991 Susan created the indie label and recording studio "Nomad Music" together with producer Paul Brosseau. Released CD "Space-Age Primitives" (1993). CD "Gypsy Hill(1999) CD "Mayim" (2001), a collection of popular Israeli songs ranging from the 1920’s to the 1970’s, in Hebrew. Song "Israel Shemah".
http://www.susancogan.com/
Beth Cohen
American violinist. Plays Klezmer, Sephardic, Israeli, Middle-Eastern and some Romani music and other ethnic music.
Dalia Cohen
Israeli musicologist. Professor Emeritus of of the Department of Musicology at The Hebrew University and the Jerusalem Academy of Music. Her research interests include music theory, universals in music, music perception and cognition, learned and natural musical schemata, sytle as determined by both the aesthetic ideal and cognitive constrains, vocal communication among humans and animals, symmetry in music, musical language of Bach, Arab music in theory and practice. She has published numerous books on these subjects as well as numerous papers, books, conference presentations. Often collaborates with Ruth Katz in the field of cognition in music. Wrote her dissertation on Zimrat hahimnônim sel ha-'arauim ha-rtôdoksim we-bay-yevanim haq-qatôlim be-yisra-el [The Hymn Singing of the Greek Orthodox and Greek Catholic Arabs in Israel]. Ph.D., Musicology, Jerusalem, 1968. Co-author with Ruth Katz, Palestinian Arab Music: A Maqam Tradition in Practice (2005). "Perception and Responses to Schemata in Different Cultures: Western and Arab Music," in Music and Altered States, November, 2005; "Remarks on the Significance of Rules of Musical Style" in Style and Meaning in Language, Art, Music, and Design, AAAI Press,Technical Report FS-04-07. Cohen, Dalia, Roni Granot, Hillel Pratt, amd Anat Barneah; "Cognitive Meanings of Musical Elements as Disclosed by Event-Related Potential (ERP) and Verbal Experiments," Music Perception11: 153-184. Dalia Cohen and Ruth Katz (Hebrew University), "Universal Constraints Concerning Music: The Meaning of Stylistic Rules in Different Cultures", paper at 16th Annual Meeting of the ESEM: John Blacking's Legacy
7-10 September 2000, The Queen's University of Belfast. Dalia Cohen Israel) / Ruth Katz (Israel), "Characterizing various styles of world music." at XIXth European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM)
Vienna - Gablitz, September 17-21, 2003. "The Interdependence of Notation Systems and Musical Information," , with Ruth Katz, Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council, 11, 1979:100-113. "Gestalt Phenomena in Musical Texture" with Shlomo Dubnov in Music, Gestalt, and Computing - Studies in Cognitive and Systematic Musicology, 1997: 386 - 405. "'Separation' and 'Directivity' as Guiding Principles in the Comparison Between Eastern and Western Music." In Proceedings of the World Congress on Jewish Music, ed. Judith Cohen. Tel Aviv: The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature (Naidat Press), 1978b.
Harriet Cohen
British pianist. Born 2 Dec 1895 and died London 13 Nov. 1967. Eldest daughter of Florence White and Joseph Woolf Cohen. Studied with Tobias Matthay at the Royal Academy of Music (1912-1917). Known for her performances of Bach. Ralph Vaughan Williams dedicated a Concerto to her, which she premiered in 1933. Lover of the composer, Arnold Bax, but they were never married. She made the first recodings of his music. In 1948, she injured her hand, but continued to play for a time with one hand. Her memoirs are A Bundle of Time (1969).
Judith Cohen
Canadian ethnomusicologist and performer of Sephardic, Crypto-Jewish, Judeo-Spanish ("Ladino")and Medieval music. Born in Montreal 1949, Dr. Cohen received her PhD from Université de Montréal in 1989 with a dissertation on Sephardic music in Canada. She travels widely researching medieval and Crypto-Jewish music in Spain and Portugal. She gives lecture-recitals, often accompanied by her daughter Tamar. Her CDs include: "GERINELDO: Chansons traditionnelles jud'o-espagnoles" (1994) and "Empezar quiero contar: Canciones de Sefarad," (2000). Her website Judith Cohen includes a vitae, list of publications and lectures and discography. Dr. Cohen has published online articles and bibliographies including:A short bibliography of Sephardic Music
Myrna Cohen
American. Cantorial Soloist at Temple Emanu-El in San Diego, California, composer and singer. "Myrna received her Bachelor of Science degree in Education and Music from the University of Pittsburgh, and was employed as a counselor and youth advisor at the Irene Kaufman Center, as well as being a music specialist at the Beth Shalom Synagogue Sunday School." Albums by Myrna Cohen include: Special Days & Lullabies and Quiet Time, Special Days: Songs for Children, and Swinging Chai. Easy to learn songs for very young children.
http://www.soundswrite.com/swmc.html
Angie Irma (Reinhart) Cohon
American. Educator, editor, poet. Born, September, 1890, Portland, Oregon. Died, 1991. Her parents were J.F. and Amelia (Marks) Reinhart. Attended HUC, 1909-1910. BA, University of Cincinnati, 1912. Irma Cohon wrote the first English language history of Jewish music (A.Z. Idelssohn's book was 1929): Introduction to Jewish Music in eight illustrated lectures (publ. before 1923), published by the National Council on Jewish Women (the 1923 edition by Bloch is a second edition). She collaborated with HUC prof, A.Z. Idelsohn, on Harvest Festivals, A Children's Succoth Celebration. Cohon wrote poetry and several other works including A Brief Jewish Ritual (Women of Mizpah, 1921). On June 12, 1912, A. Irma Cohon married Rabbi Samuel S. Cohon (see Manuscript Collection No.276). They had one son, Baruch Joseph. Cohon's brother was Harold Reinhart, 'a prominent liberal rabbi in London, England.' Her papers and music manuscripts are housed at the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati.
Adrienne Cooper
Yiddish singer and co-founder of KlezKamp. Born in Oakland, California on September 1, 1946. She studied German lieder and French art song in Israel with Mina Lief. Inspired and coached by Lazar Weiner in New York, Ms. Cooper focused on Yiddish song, concertizing widely. Her CDs include "Dreaming in Yiddish" (1995) and "Ghetto Tango"(2000).She joined "Mikveh", a women's klezmer band, and sang in their premier CD in 1998.
Ruth Samsonov Cooper
Israeli-born Canadian music pianist, teacher. Born 1918, Israel. Died, 1992 Toronto? Canada. Studied piano with Stefan Wolpe in Israel. Studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and earned the LRAM, 1944 in piano, voice, and conducting. Studied with Harold Craxton and Sir Henry Wood. Following the war, Samsonov returned to Israel and began performing and taught. In 1954, she moved to Toronto,Canada, where she taught piano. She was a Jewish music educator in Toronto for many years.
Joanne Couch
Cantorial soloist in Cleveland. She and her husband have a group called Bright Seraphim.
Lloica Czackis
Mezzo-soprano. Born in Germany to Argentinian parents in 1973. Grew up in Venezuela. She played and sang with her musical family Latin American folk music. She formally studied singing and choral conducting in Buenos Aires, and completed her training at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. Her repertoire ranges from the Renaissance to the avant-garde and from folk to tango, including oratorio, opera, and works written especially for her. Since 1999, she conceived and produced programs on Latin American and European 20th Century music, Yiddish song, cabaret and tango. She also performed in renowned venues in Buenos Aires and Europe. Her 2002 Millennium Award-winning show Tangele: The Pulse of Yiddish Tango (www.lloicaczackis.com/tangele.htm), features songs from the Yiddish theatre in Buenos Aires and New York and from ghettos and concentration camps in wartime Europe. Czackis was invited to appear in numerous venues and international festivals across Europe. In 2003, Lloica performed with Zalmen Mlotek in the launch of the International Forum for Yiddish Culture in London, and as an actress and singer in the play Davka by Jane Liddell-King, at the ADC Theatre in Cambridge (UK). She also premièred Terezín Karussell, a recital of tangos, art and cabaret songs written by Terezín composers, first with David Bloch on piano at the Brundibár Festival in Manchester and later in London and at the UK Leamington Festival in 2004. In addition to her musical career, Lloica researches the Yiddish tango. Her research was published in the Jewish Quarterly (UK), in the book "Recreando la Cultura Judeoargentina/2- Literatura y Artes Plásticas", Editorial Milá, Buenos Aires, 2004. She's also given illustrated lectures across the UK. Lloica is the 2004/5 Vladimir and Pearl Heifetz Memorial Fellow at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and is currently an MPhil student at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, in Paris. Photo Credit: Malcolm Crowthers, from Lloica Czackis website.