Alphabetical Index to Website Entries: C
Jonathan Cahr: La Yeladim
Jonathan Cahar has a new CD of children songs. In Hebrew and English. Some holiday songs.
http://www.cdfreedom.com/jonathancahr/
Cambridge Chazzanut Society: Unofficial Web Page
The Cambridge University Chazzanut Society was founded last year and was inaugurated with a concert featuring the Chazzanut Society Choir and Rev Robert Brody of Kenton.
http://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/~ga204/index.html
Cantor's Assembly of United Synagogue
This site includes organizational information, articles on Jewish music, a listing of recordings and related web sites.
http://www.jtsa.edu/org/cantor/
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
Mario Castelnuevo-Tedesco
A very small site about the composer.
http://www.hnh.com/composer/castelnu.htm
Matti Caspi
A Matti Caspi fan site with links to audio and biographical information. Includes a link to Israel-at-50 site with bios of dozens of Israeli performers.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Garden/2262/
Centro di studi sulla musica ebraica
YUVAL Italia - The Italian Center for the Study of Jewish Music (Centro di Studi sulla Musica Ebraica), was founded in January 1997, in Milan, Italy. Its fundamental purpose is to provide written and aural documentation of Jewish musical traditions, particularly those in Italy. It holds a Library and a Sound Archive, and provides contacts to musicians and music festivals throughout the country. The Center, founded with the aid of Professor Israel Adler, is the first of its kind in Italy and operates in collaboration with the Jewish Music Research Center of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. YUVAL Italia is currently directed by Dr.Francesco Spagnolo. YUVAL produces a weekly live radio show from Radio Popolare, Milan.
E-mail: yuval@powerlink.it
For more information you may write to the following address:
YUVAL Italia --Centro di Studi sulla Musica Ebraica
via della Guastalla, 19
20122 Milano, ITALY.
tel/fax +39 02 55014977
http://www.powerlink.it/yuval/english.html
Chashmal
A yeshivish group, formed from several independent musicians with long careers in the music business, has formed a simcha band. Naftali Finkel, composer arranger, keyboardist; Sam Glaser, cowriter, co-composer, engineered and mixed the album; Michael Ian Elias, vocals and guitar; Moshe Schachter, vocals and keyboard. Website high on graphics and low on information, although there are several good clips. Located out of L.A.
http://chashmal.com/
Chava Alberstein: First Lady of Israeli Song
Website for Israeli musical superstar Chava Alberstein with brief biography, photos and discography. Startnet contains additional biographical sketches of Israeli musicians.
http://www.startnet.com/chava/
Chazzanut Online
A very comprehensive website about chazzanut, from Irwin Oppenheim in the Netherlands. This site has many features, including biographical materials on major cantors, notated nusach, a discography, a list of online archives and directories, but also a very important historic collection of scanned documents and manuscripts of famous cantors. Articles can be in German, Dutch or English. Yossele Rosenblatt's Recitatives, Sam Englander Piano Arrangements, Isaac Heymann's Psalms, and more.
http://www.chazzanut.com
Children's Music/Lullabies
The Jewish.com online store has a section for ordering Jewish children's music. These are primarily contemporary, modern music composed in the US.
http://www.jewish.com/store/childrensmusic.html
Di Chuzpenics
The Chuzpenics is a klemzer group performing around Germany and Poland. Their website is bilingual in German and English and has a listing of concert dates, information about their recordings and some online samples in several formats. Each of the musicians comes from different musical backgrounds.
http://www.chuzpenics.de
The Cincinnati Klezmer
Project
This site is mounted by a band founded by students at of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion who play Jewish music with others affiliated with the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
Unusual at this site is an index of downloadable arrangements of klezmer
music.
http://members.aol.com/klezme2/
Classical/Romantic/Modern Jewish Composers
Ilan Yaakov Yavor, a former student at the University of Wisconsin and a part time Hebrew teacher, put up a website dealing with Jewish composers. It's a great introduction to some of the names in Jewish music for students. However, I feel sure that Felix Mendelssohn never wore Tefilin, so, beware of some of the web tricks here.... but still fun for kids. Shows that students can create their own projects in Jewish music.....
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/1754/composers.html
Judith R. Cohen
Contains information about Dr. Judith R. Cohen of Canada and samples of Sephardic music. She performs and lectures and is a founding member of "Gerineldo, the internationally acclaimed Moroccan Judeo-Spanish ensemble, and is the founder-director of Nova Tradicija, an a capella ensemble specializing in
Balkan singing."
http://www.yorku.ca/faculty/academic/judithc/judith_cohen.htm
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
Cohen, Robert. OPEN THE
GATES!
Open the Gates! New American Jewish Music for Prayer.
"18 selections, by 18 different composers and performers--of contemporary American-Jewish religious folk music, reflecting the inclusive, intimate, and lyrical style of contemporary Jewish prayer music." produced by Robert Cohen. Liner notes include an essay "on the influences and controversy
surrounding contemporary American-Jewish music for prayer." To order the CD, send $18 (ppd) to Robert Cohen, 18 Wiltshire Road, Brighton, MA 02135.
A Collection of Chassic Niggunim
Y.S. Gutfreud, the sound engineer, should be credited for paying close attention to the quality of the music coming over the web from this site, as well as being sensitive to your download times. The chassidic site gives alternative forms for hearing some selected niggunim (songs)with full computer information for you to make judgements about what you'd like to receive.
http://www.kesser.org/audio/niggun.html
Colorado College
Jewish music course offered through the music department.
http://obenamots.cc.colorado.edu/music/courses.html
Commission on Synagogue Music: UAHC
(Union of American Hebrew Congregations)
The Commission on Synagogue Music helps coordinate programs and activities for the Reform movement's synagogue arm, including training for musicians, publication of music, festivals and events, consultation and education for accessing musical materials for congregations. Training for Synagogue musicians is offered in close cooperation with Hebrew Union College - School of Sacred Music, through annual seminars for Synagogue musicians. "Accompanists and choral directors from all over thecountry come to the School of Sacred Music in New York each summer and study topics ranging from basic Hebrew to Jewish choral music in the 19th and 20th centuries. They return to their
congregations with an increased knowledge of our (musical) traditions and lots of new repertoire."
http://uahcweb.org/music
Aaron Copland and the Landscape of Imagination
A brief biography on the life of Aaron Copland residing on the website of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
The Aaron Copland Collection at the Library of Congress
Part of the American Memories Project, this website includes links to the featured items in the Aaron Copland collections, including visual images and texts of personal letters, his own writings, his sketches and manuscripts of music, and photographs. An extensive and thorougly organized primary source on the music of Copland. Also includes an index and a search screen.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/achtml/achome.html
Copland House
The official Aaron Copland house website contains a biography with a timeline, a list of compositions and pictures of the composer in his home. Information about the new Copland Society, founded in 1996, is available.
http://coplandhouse.org/
Featured Subject: Aaron Copland
News and Reviews from the NY Times including a link to the first chapter of Howard Pollack's biograpy of Aaron Copland:The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man on the NY Times Book Reviews Archive. Also includes audio clips of Copland's works.
http://www.dl.ket.org/humanities/music/copland.htm
Who Was That Masked Composer?
A lengthy article in the Atlantic Monthly by David Shiff, a composer and professor of music at Reed College. The site also contains links to excellent Copland sources.
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/01/001schiff.htm
Country Yossi
Part of a greater website selling lots of country Yossi items including a magazine, the tapes and CD's of Country Yossi are presented.
http://www.countryyossi.com/
**Craig 'N Company
Craig Taubman has been dedicated for years writing new contemporary music for Jewish children. His pleasant and accessible style will be appealing for many American and Canadian children and others who know English and some Hebrew.
http://www.craignco.com/main.html