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Judith Cohen (Judeo-Spanish, Balladry)

Jul 10 20:00 pm -
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At which venue:
Shanlao Hutong NO. 14, Dongcheng District
60(ADV)/80(DOOR)

时间/Time: 2018年7月10日 20:00


门票/Ticket: 60(ADV)/80(DOOR)


地点/Venue: 黄昏黎明俱乐部 (DDC)


地址/ADD: 北京市东城区美术馆后街山老胡同14号


Shanlao Hutong NO. 14, Dongcheng District


电话/Tel: 010-64078969


邮箱/Mail: DuskDawnClub@gmail.com


Dr. Judith R. Cohen is a performer and ethnomusicologist specializing in Judeo-Spanish ("Ladino") Sephardic songs, as well as in medieval and traditional music, including Balkan, Portuguese, Yiddish, and French Canadian, pan-European balladry, and songs from Crypto-Jewish regions of the Portuguese-Spanish border.



Her daughter, Tamar Ilana Cohen Adams (b.1986) often performs with her. Judith's performance repertoire and lectures draw on her village field work in several Mediterranean countries and in urban immigrant communities; and on her academic research, presented in a dynamic, accessible style adaptable to audiences from sophisticated cognoscenti to school children. Her commentaries can be given in English, French, Spanish or Portuguese.


She accompanies her traditional-style singing on bowed vielle, 'ud, dulcimer and traditional percussion instruments, and is an accomplished player of recorders and pipe-and-tabor. Tamar Ilana is an accomplished traditional singer, and adds percussion, drawing on her years of flamenco dance training and her travels and fieldwork with Judith.



Judith is the General Editor for the Spain series of the Alan Lomax project, carried out with the Association for Cultural Equity and Rounder Records. Besides editing and writing extensive liner notes for the series, she has located and interviewed almost all the men and women still alive in Spanish villages whom Lomax recorded in 1952, and is working on an edition of his Spanish field diaries.


Judith was a founding member of Gerineldo, the internationally acclaimed Moroccan Judeo-Spanish ensemble, and the founder-director of Nova Tradicija, an a capella ensemble specializing in Balkan singing, as well as Na Carenza, a women's ensemble specializing in the early medieval repertoire. Judith presents multicultural and medieval programs for children through Mariposa In The Schools.



As an educator, she has worked coaching the Balkan vocal ensemble at the University of Toronto, and is currently Contract Faculty and Adjunct Graduate Faculty at York University. Among the courses, she has taught are Music of the World’s Peoples, Music of the Mediterranean, Medieval Music and Folklore of Canada.

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