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Ruth A. Solie, Smith College
Respondent: Kristy Riggs
Columbia's Music Colloquia are free and open to the public.
Refreshments will be served after the talks.
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Callahan at dmc2127@columbia.edu.
Keynote Speakers:
Philip Auslander (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Nadine Hubbs (University of Michigan)
All events are free and open to the public.
Keynote Speakers:
Philip Auslander (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Nadine Hubbs (University of Michigan)
All events are free and open to the public.
All Ethnomusicology Colloquia are free and open to the public.
A Historical Musicology Colloquium featuring Geoffrey Burgess (Columbia University) and Sean Parrresponding.
All HM Colloquia are free and open to the public.
Contact dmc2127@columbia.edu for more information.
Woodwind instruments are made from Mpingo Wood, also known as African Blackwood and grenadilla. Oboes, clarinets, bagpipes, flutes, piccolos, and fingerboards for stringed instruments including guitars, are made of Mpingo. So are the highly prized sculptures made by the Makonde people. Mpingo grows in Tanzania and Mozambique, and worldwide, individuals and organizations work to conserve and preserve it. Over the past several years, Brenda Schuman-Post has taken on the task of bringing awareness to those involved in Western Classical Music of the impact that their culture is having on other peoples. As an oboist, she herself depends on the availability of Mpingo. This timber has been culled from areas in Southern Africa over the past two centuries, and its progressive depletion has created increased impoverishment among the indigenous peoples of the area.
The Center for Ethonmusicology at Columbia University is excited to host Sima Arom, Director Emeritus of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
All Ethnomusicology Colloquia are free and open to the public.
The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University and the Columbia Business School present four leading experts in the field of business in a discussion of the role of improvisation in emerging models of organization and leadership.
The Center for the Core Curriculum and the Music Humanities Program present:
The Annual Music Humanities Course-Wide Lecture
featuring the renowned neurologist and writer:
Dr. Oliver Sacks
(Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, and Columbia Artist).
Dr. Sacks will speak on: "Musicophilia: Music and the Brain."
The lecture will take place on Friday, April 25 at 11AM
in the Roone Arledge Auditorium of Columbia's Lerner Hall, and it is free and open to the public.
(get directions)
Learn more about Oliver Sacks here.
(Photograph by Eileen Barroso for Columbia News.)
A Historical Musicology Colloquium featuring Joseph Dubiel (Columbia University). Respondant TBA.
All HM Colloquiua are free and open to the public.
Contact dmc2127@columbia.edu for more information.
