The Center for Ethnomusicology at Columbia University is proud to announce this year's colloquium series!

Veit Erlmann
Music as Law: "The Lion King," Intellectual Property, and South African Cultural Heritage
Location:  The Center for Ethnomusicology, 701C Dodge Hall
Tuesday, February 2, 5:30pm

Martin A. Mills
Chanting, Mantras, and the Presence of Divinity in Tibetan Buddhist Ritual
Co-sponsored by the East Asian Languages and Cultures Department
Location: EALAC Lounge Room 403 Kent Hall
Monday, March 1, 5:00pm

Amanda Weidman
Female Voices in the Public Sphere:  Playback Singing as Cultural Phenomenon in South India
Location:  The Center for Ethnomusicology, 701C Dodge Hall
Tuesday, March 9, 5:30pm

Kiri Miller
How Musical Is Guitar Hero?
Location:  The Center for Ethnomusicology, 701C Dodge Hall
Tuesday, March 30, 5:30pm

Amanda Minks
Postcolonial Play: Socializing Race and Language on the Carribean Coast of Nicaragua  read more »

The Spring 2010 Music Colloquium Series, Department of Music, Columbia University, is proud to present the following speakers:

Joy H. Calico, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, and Vanderbilt University
"Schoenberg's A Survivor from Warsaw behind the Iron Curtain (1958-68)"
Friday March 5th, 4pm
Respondent: Juliet Forshaw
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Ethnomusicology

Suzannah Clark, Harvard University
"On the Imagination of Tone in Schubert's Trost (D523) and Gretchens Bitte (D564)"
Friday April 16th, 4pm
Respondent: Caleb Mutch

Walter Frisch, Columbia University
"Appreciating Arlen"
Friday April 30th, 4pm
Respondent: Hannah Clancy

ALL TALKS IN ROOM 620 DODGE HALL AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Back on campus but feeling out of the loop?  Get back into the swing of spring by checking out the latest CU Music Performance Program E-Newsletter!

The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University and American Composers Orchestra announce a new collaborative project: the Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute (JCOI). With generous support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, this program will provide instruction to jazz composers in working with the symphony orchestra, an area that many jazz composers wish to engage, but for which access to educational and performance opportunities are few. JCOI will take place in two stages: the Intensive and the Readings.

From July 20 to 24, 2010, up to 35 participants, selected from a national pool of applicants, will take part in the JCOI Intensive on the Columbia University campus, where they will work with prominent composers, performers, conductors, and music industry leaders in seminars, workshops and performance labs in orchestration, instrumentation, contemporary techniques, score preparation and ideas for incorporating improvisation within an orchestral framework. Professional development workshops will address promotion, publishing, copyright and commissioning agreements, and other career essentials.

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Don't miss the last weekend of end-of-semester concerts on campus.  To read more about them in our CU Music Performance Program newsletter, click here.

Fall 2009
Department of Music
End of Semester Meeting
and Holiday Party
Wed. Dec. 16

Dept. Meeting 11AM
622 Dodge Hall

Holiday Party 12 Noon
620 Dodge Hall

All affiliates, students, friends
welcome!

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The end-of-semester concerts have begun!  From Friday through Tuesday, treat yourself to a study break while enjoying live guitar, singers, jazz, world music, or the renowned CU Orchestra!  All concerts are on campus, free, and open to the public.  For a list of free concerts on campus this week, click HERE.

Congratulations to Tyler Bickford, a PhD candidate in ethnomusicology at Columbia, who has just been awarded two prestigious prizes for recent conference papers:

1) The 2009 Lise Waxer Prize from the Popular Music Section of the Society for Ethnomusicology, recognizing the most distinguished student paper in the ethnomusicology of popular music presented at the SEM annual meeting in Wesleyan, CT, October 2008, for his paper entitled: "Media Consumption as Social Organization at a New England Primary School."

and

2) The 2009 Hewitt Pantaleoni Prize from the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (MACSEM) for the best student paper presented at the Middle Atlantic SEM Chapter meeting in New York, March 2008, entitled: "The Social Economy of Headphone Use in a New England Primary School."

Learn more about Tyler Bickford's work at his personal website.

We congratulate George Lewis, the Edwin Case Professor of American Music, whose 2008 book A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music (Univ. of Chicago Press) has been awarded the "Music in American Culture" prize for "outstanding scholarship in the music of the United States" by the American Musicological Society, at the AMS 2009 annual meeting in Philadelphia.

A Power Stronger Than Itself was also recently awarded The American Book Award by the Before Columbus Foundation.

We congratulate Fred Lerdahl,  Fritz Reiner Professor of Music, who has been honored as the Composer of the Year by the Classical Recording Foundation, for his Music of Fred Lerdahl, Volume 2 (Bridge Records 9269).

The album features his orchestral work Cross-Currents (1987), performed by the Odense Symphony Orchestra, Waltzes (1981) for violin, viola, cello and contrabass, Duo for violin and piano (2005), and Quiet Music for orchestra (1994).

The Center for Ethnomusicology holds copies of, and rights to, the Laura Boulton Collection of Traditional Music, consisting of field recordings of folk and traditional musics made around the world by collector Laura Boulton, from the 1930s through the 1960s.  In 1933 and again in 1940, Boulton recorded a total of 129 Hopi songs, ranging from secular to spiritual genres.  (The 1933 recordings were made at the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition; the 1940 recordings at Hopi.)
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Prof. Fred Lerdahl has been honored by the Canyonlands New Music Ensemble as the Maurice Abravanel Visiting Distinguished Composer.  The Canyonlands Ensemble performed works by Prof. Lerdahl (and Columbia postdoctoral fellow in Music Aaron Einbond) at a concert on Nov. 4, 2009 at the University of Utah.

For more information, click here (http://www.betsysview.com/2009/10/fred-lerdahl-honored-as-maurice-abravanel-distinguished-composer/)

In Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century, Greil Marcus delved into the cross-currents, tangles, and whirlpools that made such vastly different movements as dada, lettrism, the Situationist International, and punk part of a single current. To mark the just-published 20th-anniversary edition of the book, Columbia University in partnership with the ARChive of Contemporary Music present Greil Marcus in a one-man performance of Lipstick Traces. The event will take place on Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. at Altschul Auditorium, 417 International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street and is free and open to the public.
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The Center for Ethnomusicology's NSF-funded project to repatriate Laura Boulton's 1946 Alaskan Iñupiat recordings, led by Prof. Aaron Fox and Postdoctoral Fellow Chie Sakakibara,  has recently been featured in an article on the Polar Field Services' Notes blog. Read the article here.


Aaron and Chie will be in Alaska from Nov. 20-29.

This concert is free and open to the public.

Founded in 2001, Columbia Classical Performers seeks to support the community of classical musicians on campus who wish to perform in an intimate, stress-free environment for their peers. CCP works to give musicians performance opportunities by providing venues all over campus, coordinating recital logistics, publicizing events, and planning post-concert receptions. CCP has a dual function: to allow musicians an outlet to share their music with the public, and to provide the Columbia community with free,  high-quality classical music.  For more information please visit the CCP website at
http://sites.google.com/site/columbiaclassicalperformers/
or email
cuclassicalperformers@gmail.com
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The Columbia Collegium Musicum performs Motets and Songs of Josquin.

Directed by Michael Shaw

St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009 at 8PM

Admission is free and open to the public.

Columbia Composers' Colloquium with Edmund Campion (Columbia University, DMA'93)
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009; 4:10 to 6:00pm Room 620, Dodge Hall

"Mere Self-Expression and Other Time-worn Models in My Recent Music."

Edmund Campion, Professor of Music Composition, UC Berkeley, and Co-Director at the The Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), presents analysis and perspective on two recent works:  Practice, for orchestra and computer and 600 Secondes dans le Vieux Modele for instrumental ensemble. 600 Secondes was commissioned by Radio France and received its premiere with the Zellig Ensemble and Francois Xavier Roth in the 2009 Radio France Presences Festival.  Practice, was commission by the American Composers Orchestra and most recently performed by the Nice Philharmonic with Peter Rundel and the Berkeley Symphony with Kent Nagano.  Campion is in New York to  perform a 50 minute set at
Roulette on November 12, 2009.  The concert will feature 6 new works for live performer  read more »