Events

Argento New Music Ensemble: NEW MUSIC ON THE CUTTING EDGE
Argento begins a three-concert series at the Italian Academy with a
showcase of extreme contrasts: static meditations vs. relentless
virtuosity.

Tickets: Adult - $15, Students - $10
Ticket inquiries: (212) 854-2306 or on the Italian Academy's website

Program:
Scelsi - Xnoybis for solo violin (1964)

Sannicandro - Constructa for septet (2007) (US Premiere)

Lachenmann - Dal Niente

Lachenmann - Mouvement (vor der Erstarrung) for chamber orchestra (1983/1984/2008) (2008 version World Premiere)

Columbia University Gagaku Ensemble presents a short performance at the conclusion of “Ancient Soundscapes: New Echoes,” a symposium and musicale

Kay Kaufman Shelemay is the G. Gordon Watts Professor of Music at Harvard University. She is the author of Music, Ritual, and Falasha History
(1986), which won both the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award in 1987 and the Prize of
the International Musicological Society in 1988. Other major publications include A Song of Longing: An Ethiopian Journey (1991);Ethiopian Christian Chant: An Anthology (1993-97), co-authored with Peter Jeffery; and Let Jasmine Rain Down: Song and Remembrance Among Syrian Jews (University of Chicago Press, 1998). All Ethnomusicology Colloquia are free and open to the public.

RAPAPORT PRIZE FOR SUMMER STUDY

Thanks to a generous alumnus, Richard Rapaport, you can receive funds to study at a summer music festival of your choice.  Open to instrumentalists, singers, composers, and conductors.  PRIORITY GIVEN to those who have played an active role in the Music Performance Program.  No audition or performance for is required for the Rapaport Prize, but an interview is mandatory. 

 On March 28th you should bring the following:

1) A letter of recommendation from your teacher.

2) A letter of acceptance from the festival, which also states the funds needed. 

AUDITIONS FOR YAMAHA HALL CONCERT

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. 

The 2008 Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology Conference (MACSEM) will be held on March 29th and 30th at Columbia University. Please visit MACSEM2008 at ethnocenter.org for more information.

The 2008 Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology Conference (MACSEM) will be held on March 29th and 30th at Columbia University. Please visit MACSEM2008 at ethnocenter.org for more information.

Listen to Lion in the Grass, the Columbia Bluegrass Band live on WKCR’s The Moonshine Show, 89.9 FM NY

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.

"Lion in the Grass," Columbia's Bluegrass band, performs a "Low Down" as part of Columbia Days on Campus.  This event is free and open to the public.

NYU Steinhardt, Music and Performing Arts Department and Columbia University's Music Performance Program invite you to a unique collaboration. There's a new Subway Series in town. This Spring, Columbia and NYU go head to head in a bold concert series celebrating the best of uptown and down, with performances in Morningside Heights and Greenwich Village. Join us for two colorful evenings of music-making and a little friendly crosstown rivalry.

Admission is FREE.

Columbia New Music presents the Orfeo Duo playing music of Morningside Heights and Harlem composers. This event is free and open to the public.

Sarah Weiss studied at the University of Rochester/Eastman Conservatory and New York University, receiving her PhD from NYU in musicology in 1998. She has taught at the University of Sydney, Australia, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Harvard University. She joined the faculty of the Department of Music at Yale in 2005. Primarily conducting research amongst performers in Central Java and Sulawesi, Indonesia, her geographical interests also include performance fromaround Asia.

Spring Concert Program

 John Adams - Lollapalooza

Haydn - Cello Concerto in D

Caleb van der Swaagh, cello

Mark Seto, conductor 

Verdi - La Traviata, Prelude to Act III

Respighi - The Pines of Rome

Daedalus String Quartet Presentations at:

9:15-10:15 am and 10:45-11:45 am

Columbia University Orchestra Event, “Music from the Inside, an X-RAY View”

The Columbia University Orchestra and Music Director Jeffrey
Milarsky will host a series of two open rehearsal/performances for the
entire Music Humanities department and all participants. These
events, which will be held in Roone Arledge Auditorium, will be an exciting view into the art of musical performance and how musicians prepare and present these masterpieces of Western Art.