Dr. Tyshawn Sorey Performance at Rothko Chapel Profiled by New York Times and the New Yorker
Dr. Tyshawn Sorey (DMA '17) performed for the 50th anniversary of Houston's Rothko Chapel at the end of February.
Dr. Tyshawn Sorey (DMA '17) performed for the 50th anniversary of Houston's Rothko Chapel at the end of February.
Dr. Eric Wubbels (DMA '10) was profiled in the New York Times on March 4th. The profile discusses his compositional work and process since moving to Massachusetts at the start of the pandemic.
Professor George Lewis will receive an honorary Doctor of Music from the University of Pennsylvania.
Please save the date for the symposium Kitchen Table Praxis: Recipes for Belonging in Electronic Music, happening virtually April 8, 2022, 12:30 - 6:00pm, ET.
The wonderful Naomi Waltham-Smith will deliver a keynote, entitled "Strange Sound: Capital, Race, and the Field Recorder in Urban Marginalization."
Dr. Velia Ivanova (GSAS '21, Historical Musicology) has published an article titled “Defining the Songs of Incarceration: The Lomax Prison Project at a Critical Juncture” in the February 2022 issue of the Journal of the Society for American Music.
Colloquium: Friday, April 1, 2022, at 3pm, 622 Dodge Hall
Konrad Sierzputowski (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)
"Filth, Glitter, and Blood: Transformations of Polish Queer Opera and Musical Theater after 1989"
Colloquium: Friday, March 25, 2022, at 3pm, 622 Dodge Hall
Ayana Smith (Indiana University Bloomington / Italian Academy, Columbia University)
"Specularity, or What a Comet, the Telescope, and Mirrors Have to do with Seventeenth-Century Opera"
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Colloquium: Friday, April 29, 2022, at 3pm, 622 Dodge Hall
Julia Hyland Bruno (Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience, Center for Neuroscience and Society, Columbia University)
"A Comparative-Species Perspective on Vocal Interactivity"
Colloquium: Friday, April 15, 2022, at 3pm, 622 Dodge Hall
Kofi Agawu (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
"African Art Music and the Challenge of Postcolonial Composition"
There is a call for papers for the Columbia Music Scholarship Conference, which is being held through Zoom on April 23, 2022. The deadline for papers is March 4, 2022.