The Center for Ethnomusicology is pleased to present a public colloquium featuring  Sonia Seeman (Assistant Professor, Department of Music, University of Texas at Austin), entitled:

Metaphoricity, Iconicity and Mimesis: Towards a Musical Semantics of Social Identity in Turkish Roman (“Gypsy”) Music

The colloquium will be held from 4-6PM on Tuesday, November 6, 2009, in 701C Dodge.  It is free and open to the public. For more information, please click here.

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Columbia Music Scholarship Conference 2010
Call for Abstracts on the theme:
MUSIC AND MONEY: Examining Value in Music
 
The Columbia Music Scholarship Conference invites graduate students to submit abstracts to be selected for presentation at our seventh annual meeting, which will take place on March 6, 2010 at Columbia University. We are soliciting proposals from scholars active in all fields related to the academic study of music. If relevant to the conference topic, proposals are also welcome from scholars in other disciplines within the humanities and social sciences, and from students in the fields of arts administration and music education.
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Professor Walter Frisch elaborates on the complicated task of a music historian: How does one reconcile the aesthetic and intrinsic qualities of music with the broader cultural and historical contexts in which it was composed and heard?

November 2nd, 6 - 7 pm
PicNic Cafe 2665 Broadway
$10 cover

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Historical Musicology Program
2009 AMS Meeting Preview Colloquium

Friday, Nov. 6, 2-5PM, 622 Dodge Hall

Featured speakers:
Louise Chernosky
Kristy Riggs
Ryan Dohoney
Daniel Callahan

The event will be moderated by Prof. Walter Frisch.  It is free and open to the public. 

(Please click the poster image to view the program in detail at a larger size.)

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Clawing at the Limits of Cool:
Miles Davis, John Coltrane and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever
A talk and book signing with Farah Jasmine Griffin (Columbia University) and Salim Washington (Brooklyn College)

When Miles Davis invited the young John Coltrane to join his quintet in 1955, a collaboration was born that would change the landscape of jazz. In their new book, "Clawing at the Limits of Cool,” Farah Jasmine Griffin and Salim Washington focus on the profound implications of this collaboration.

Wednesday November 11, 2009 TIME TBA
301 Philosophy Hall, Columbia University Morningside Campus
Free and Open to the public

For more information on the Center for Jazz Studies events, please visit www.jazz.columbia.edu or call (212) 851-1633

The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University (CJS) cordially invites you to our upcoming events. The Center sees jazz as a music without borders or limits, and as a model for the integration of forward-thinking modes of scholarly inquiry with innovative teaching and community dialogue.

The four events listed below are free and open to the public, and we welcome your participation. Also please feel free to forward this email to fellow jazz aficionados. We look forward to seeing you.

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Friday, October 30, 11am to noon, 622 Dodge

Meeting of Music Department Graduate Students, with faculty, to discuss the Arts & Sciences Academic Review of the Department taking place this year. The Academic Review takes place once every ten years (the last was in 1999) and involves a departmental self-study, visits by external reviewers, and a final assessment by the Academic Review Committee of Arts & Sciences. The graduate program is an important component of this review, and input from graduate students in all areas is essential. Please come to this meeting to share ideas, thoughts, concerns. Refreshments will be served.

Walter Frisch, DGS Music

Are you a musician?

Did you grow up learning an instrument? Did you take music lessons as a child? Did you ever have a teacher who inspired you and opened for you a new world of expression?

There are children who can't afford this opportunity, but you can make it possible.

The Columbia Musical Mentors program is seeking instrumental instructors for the upcoming 2009-2010 school year. We provide weekly, one-on-one lessons to elementary school students at P.S. 145 (105th Street and Amsterdam) who would not otherwise be able to afford lessons. No teaching experience is necessary, just a willingness to share your enthusiasm for music. All musicians, no matter what instrument they play, can participate.

It takes just one hour a week to give private music lessons and mentor a child. Can you help make a difference in a young life?

For more information, email Jonathan Maimon at jrm2144@columbia.edu before this FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2ND.

 
The Department of Music at Columbia University is pleased to announce two Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowships, to begin in September 2010.  We seek scholars or composers in the early stages of their academic careers (with doctorates received after June 30, 2007 or with all  requirements completed by June 30, 2010) whose research, creative work, and teaching will add to the intellectual vigor and diversity of musical life at Columbia.  read more »