The Jewish Music Forum Presents:Jewish Music and Humor April 29, 2018 Conference Schedule
9:00am- Coffee and Pastries
9:30am: Welcoming Remarks: How do Jews Sound Funny? Dr. Gordon Dale, Executive Director of the Jewish Music Forum, HUC-JIR
9:45am: Humoring the Stereotype into a Liminal Space: Lipa Schmeltzer's "Gelt" Dr. Tina Frühauf (Columbia University, CUNY, RILM), followed by a conversation with Lipa Schmelzer, Badkhan and Singer
10:30am: Sephardic Songs: The Lighter Side, A Lecture-Demonstration Dr. Judith Cohen (York University)
11:15am: Coffee Break
11:30am: Music and Humor Where None Should Be: The Holocaust Dr. Michael Beckerman (NYU), Dr. Bret Werb (Holocaust Memorial Museum), Dr. Aviva Atlani (University of Toronto), Samantha Cooper (NYU), and Dr. Mark Slobin (Wesleyan University)
12:30pm: Lunch Break
1:30pm: Keynote: Scoring Jewish Comedy: The (Very) Early Years Dr. Daniel Goldmark (Case Western Reserve University)
2:30pm: Panel: Jewish Comedians and Music in America “Did Someone Call Me Schnorrer?”: On the Marx Brothers’ Jewish Musical Humor Olivia Cacchione (Northwestern University) Mickey Katz: A New Jewish Comedic Musical Frontier Dr. Mark Kligman (UCLA) The Jewish Humor of Allan Sherman: The Broadway Parodies Dr. Ira Epstein (CUNY)