Graduate Students Meeting
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
Share this on Facebook!CU Musical Mentors program seeking instructors. Deadline Friday 10/2
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.
Two Post-Doctoral Fellowships in Music at Columbia University
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 »
Music Practice Rooms and Policies for the 2009-10 Academic Year
Important Facts and Policies for 2009-2010
If you live in a Columbia University dormitory, there are twelve 24-hour access practice rooms on campus – six in Schapiro Hall, three in Broadway dorm and three in the East Campus dorm. If you don’t have a dorm card, you are eligible to use any one of the six rooms in Schapiro Hall, but you still need a COLUMBIA ID card, or one from a Columbia affiliate institution (Barnard, Union Theological College, Jewish Theological, Medical College and a few others).
Bob Ostertag -- Creative Life: Music, Politics, People, and Machines
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2009, 7:30 PM
620 DODGE HALL, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MORNINGSIDE CAMPUS
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Creative Life: Music, Politics, People, and Machines
Bob Ostertag, University of California, Davis
Bob Ostertag will read and discuss issues from his new book, Creative Life: Music, Politics, People, and Machines (University of Illnois Press, 2009). In this dazzling set of writings from a musical artist who has worked on the cutting edge of new music for thirty years, Professor Ostertag explores the common ground and points of friction among music, creativity, politics, culture, and technology. In terrain ranging from the guerrilla underground in El Salvador's civil war to the drag queen underground in San Francisco and New York, these essays combine journalism and autobiography to explore fundamental questions of what art is and what role it can occupy in a violent and fragmented world, a world in which daily events compromise the universality toward which art strives. Drawing on his intimate engagement with political conflict in Latin America and the Balkans, Ostertag identifies an art of "insurgent politics" that struggles to expand the parameters of the physical and! social world.
read more »CU Composers Sam Pluta & Lu Wang Win 2009 ASCAP Awards
Fall 2009 Music Registration Information
Important information for Theory Classes and Placement Exam Info and Music Humanities Registration and Exemption Exam Info is available at the front desk of the Music Department Office, 621 Dodge Hall. Please come by to pick it up between the hours of 9:30am and 5:00pm.
Copies of all of the materials above are also posted on the Music Department bulletin board in the 6th floor hallway of Dodge Hall.
Featured New Courses and Elective Offerings -- Fall 2009
CMC in Portugal
Faculty and students from the Computer Music Center were featured guests at the 2009 "Escrita na Pasaigem" ("written on the land") festival held in central Portugal, July 1-10. Graduate students Jeff Snyder and Daniel Iglesia presented their interactive music performance and graphics work at four cities in the Alentejo area. Brad Garton and Terry Pender performed improvisational music (alongside Gregory Taylor of Cycling '74 software) as "PGT" with Portugese musicians playing traditional instruments. Click here for a sampling of music and photos from the festival.
Brown Bag Jazz Wednesdays in July
Columbia University School of the Arts and the School of Continuing Education are delighted to announce our free July lunchtime concert series, Brown Bag Jazz, beginning this Wednesday, July 8th and continuing every Wednesday in July. Performances will feature student musicians from the CU Jazz Ensembles and friends.
Please join us for our inaugural concert, with a performance by The Lucky Chops Brass Band, on Wednesday, July 8th, on the Dodge Hall Plaza, from 12:15 pm - 1:15 pm.
Information about The Lucky Chops Brass Band can be found on their facebook and myspace pages -- see links below.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lucky-Chops-Brass-Band/8882786074
http://www.myspace.com/luckychopsbrassband
In the case of inclement weather, the performances will be held in the main lobby of Dodge Hall.
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George Edwards named MacDowell Professor Emeritus of Music
Steve Lehman Octet Performs at Le Poisson Rouge
Representing an all-star assemblage of the most technically advanced players in contemporary jazz, the Steve Lehman Octet will present a set of cutting-edge music in celebration of their recent release Travail, Transformation & Flow, on the Pi Recordings label. Widely regarded as one of the most advanced musical minds of his generation, Lehman integrates delicate and highly nuanced spectral harmonies into meticulously crafted rhythmic settings. The result is an all-encompassing musical universe that advances a singular conception of rhythm, harmony, and improvisational form.
Travail, Transformation, and Flow is created with support from Chamber Music America's New Works: Creation and Presentation Program, funded through the generosity of the Doris Duke Foundation.
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www.lepoissonrouge.com
Time Out New York: read more »
2009 Commencement Party at the Music Department
MOVING SOUNDS FESTIVAL 2009 ARGENTO CHAMBER ENSEMBLE AND CHRISTOPHER JUST
*SNEAK PREVIEW CONCERT | MOVING SOUNDS FESTIVAL 2009*
*ARGENTO CHAMBER ENSEMBLE AND CHRISTOPHER JUST*
The *Argento Chamber Ensemble* teams up with Austrian DJ *Christopher Just*in a program juxtaposing works of emerging American composers, DJs and turntable artists. The program will include the world premiere of *Michael
Klingbeil’s* *Subterrain*, for clarinet, strings, and live electronics, as well as *Enno Poppe’s* ultra-complex *Geloeschte Lieder* for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, and cello.
Christopher Just, Michael Klingbeil, Enno Poppe
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This event is produced in cooperation with Argento New Music Project, Mica Austria, and Columbia University. Curated by Michel Galante and Peter Rantasa.
*RESERVATIONS*
Free Admission. Reservations required. Call (212) 319 5300 ext. 222 or read more »
MPP: Gagaku, Daedalus Plays CU Composers, a Chamber Soiree, and Singers Galore!
1) TONIGHT! The Columbia University Gagaku Ensemble Spring Concert
Wednesday, May 6 at 7:00 PM
St. Paul’s Chapel
Free and open to the public
Playing ancient court music of Japan, a type of music rarely played outside of Japan.
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2) TONIGHT! Wednesday, MAY 6 at 8:00 PM
Dont miss the final concert of the spring THREE SOPRANOS series at the Italian Academy. Concert Artist Guild first prize winner soprano Sarah Wolfson will perform three songs by Hugo Wolf, new settings of the same texts by Carl Bettendorf (who will be present for the World Premiere performance), Luciano Berio's Sequenza III and wonderful Folk Songs, with members of the Axiom Ensemble conducted by Jeffrey Milarsky. Tickets at the door are just $15, $10 for students and seniors.
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3) Voice Recital by Julie Schoonover and Sarah Terry
Thursday May 7th at 7:00 pm
301 Philosophy Hall read more »
Congratulations to Music Graduate Students
Singing the Present through the Past
Department of Music, Columbia University
is pleased to present
“Singing the Present through the Past: ‘Kharbusha’ at a Wedding Celebration in Morocco”
Alessandra Ciucci, Columbia University
Respondent: Farzaneh Hemmasi
Friday, April 24, 2009
4:00PM, 622 Dodge Hall
The talk is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served after the talk.
Congratulations to Sean Parr!
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Columbia Composers + So Percussion
Roulette
http://roulette.org
20 Greene Street (between Canal and Grand Streets)
New York, NY
Gongs, wood, metal, clay, skins. Hand built instruments and stunning virtuosity. So Percussion performs six new premiers by Columbia Composers Steve Lehman, Mahir Cetiz, Courtney Bryan, Dan Iglesia, Lu Wang, and Sam Pluta.
Columbia Composers + ICE
Leonard Nimoy Thalia @ Peter Norton Symphony Space
www.symphonyspace.org
The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) will present a concert of recent chamber works by graduate composers working in the Music Department at Columbia University: Geof Holbrook, Michel Galante, Eric Wubbels, Kate Soper, Mario Diaz de Leon, Andile Khumalo, and Bryan Jacobs.
GSAS Music Department Alumni Reunion
The Graduate School of Arts & Sciences hosted an alumni reunion for six departments, including Music, on Saturday, April 4, 2009. About twenty former MAs, PhDs, and DMAs came for the day of activities, which included a series of presentations by current graduate students and a lecture by Prof. Elaine Sisman.
Ethnomusicology graduate student Marti Newland, with Prof. Emeritus Edward Lippman (PhD '52) and his wife.
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