Anne Gefell (1955-2017)
posted
Sep
5,
2017
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Anne Gefell, the Departmental Director of Academic Administration and Finance.
Impressionisms and Expressionisms
Mon, Sep 25 - 8:00pm
Reid Hall, Columbia Global Centers | Paris
4, rue de Chevreuse, 75006 Paris
En tout cas, si "impressionnisme" signifie avant tout le contraire "d'expressionnisme", je pourrais être d'accord. (In any event, if “Impressionism” really means the opposite of “Expressionism,” I could agree.)
-Tristan Murail, program notes for Treize Couleurs du soleil couchant
Alessandra Ciucci Publishes Article in Ethnomusicology Forum
posted
Sep
18,
2017
Alessandra Ciucci, Assistant Professor of Music, has published "Performing 'L-alwa:' A Sacred and Erotic Journey in Morocco" in Ethnomusicology Forum vol. 26 No. 2 (2017): 151-70.
Andrew Goldman: Musical Improvisation as a Way of Knowing
posted
Sep
18,
2017
Dr. Andrew Goldman, Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience, will deliver the talk, "Improvisation as a Way of Knowing."
Marin Alsop Wins 2017 Ditson Conductor’s Award
posted
Sep
17,
2017
Marin Alsop, distinguished conductor and Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, is the recipient of the 2017 Ditson Conductor’s Award for the advancement of American music, Columbia University has announced.
Publishing Workshop
Wed, Oct 4 - 12:15pm
The Heyman Center for the Humanities and the Society of Fellows in the Humanities invite graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, faculty, and PhDs in the humanities to a workshop on academic publishing led by Professor Ellie Hisama. Topics to be covered include deciding where and when to submit your work, preparing an article and book proposal for submission, responding to readers' reports, working with editors and publishers, securing permissions, and negotiating a book contract.
Book Launch: Arlen and Harburg's Over the Rainbow
Sun, Oct 15 - 4:00pm
Come to Book Culture at 536 West 112th Street, Sunday, October 15th at 4pm, for a special discussion of Arlen and Harburg's Over the Rainbow with the author, Walter Frisch, and Kevin Fellezs.
Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow/Lecturer Position
posted
Sep
1,
2017
The Department of Music at Columbia University invites applications for Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowships. Appointment will be at the rank of Mellon Teaching Fellow/Lecturer, for a period of two years to begin July 1, 2018.
Paula Harper and Michael Weinstein-Reiman Present at Feminist Theory and Music 14
posted
Aug
30,
2017
PhD candidates Paula Harper (HM) and Michael Weinstein-Reiman (Theory) presented papers on Beyoncé and Nicki Minaj at the international biennial Feminist Theory and Music conference at San Francisco State University, July 27-30. Congratulations, Paula and Michael!
Featured New and Elective Courses FALL 2017
posted
Aug
23,
2017
This semester, the Department of Music is offering courses on Beethoven, Divas, Monsters, Material Girls: Women in Music Video; and Transpacific Musicology: Monsters, Princesses, Bombs at Sea. Graduate seminars include Music and Early Modernism, 1880-1920; Ruth Crawford Seeger; and Analysis of Musical Form.
Tyshawn Sorey in The New Yorker magazine and The New York Times
posted
Jul
3,
2017
Illustration by Gaurab Thakali for The New Yorker
Tyshawn Sorey (DMA '17) is featured in an article by Alex Ross in The New Yorker of July 10/17, 2017 and in a New York Times profile (August 2, 2017).
Music Faculty and Grad Students Receive CAETR Grant
posted
Jul
3,
2017
Columbia Music faculty and graduate students, led by Prof. Ellie Hisama, have been awarded a grant from the Collaborative to Advance Equity through Research (CAETR) at Columbia University, for a project entitled For the Daughters of Harlem: Working with Sound.
George Lewis Receives Honorary Doctorate from New College of Florida
posted
Jun
14,
2017
On May 26th, Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music George Lewis gave the commencement address at the New College of Florida, where 181 students received diplomas.
Columbia Composers at the Ojai Music Festival
posted
Jun
8,
2017
This year's Ojai Music Festival prominently features several Composition alumni and faculty: Courtney Bryan, Mario Diaz de Leon, George Lewis, and Tyshawn Sorey.
Sean Hallowell Receives Stanford Thinking Matters Fellowship
posted
May
31,
2017
Sean Hallowell (PhD, 2013) is a 2018-2020 recipient of the Thinking Matters Fellowship at Stanford University. The Fellowship offers an opportunity for recent recipients of doctoral degrees to teach in an innovative liberal education program with a cohort of like-minded colleagues from a wide variety of different disciplines.
New Releases by George Lewis
posted
May
31,
2017
Several new recordings of Professor George Lewis' compositions have been released: The Will To Adorn, with International Contemporary Ensemble; Creative Construction, with Splitter Orchester; Not Alone, with Seth Parker Woods on cello; and Spinner, with Mariel Roberts on cello.
Emily Clark awarded Fulbright and GSAS Traveling Fellowships
posted
May
26,
2017
Ethnomusicology PhD candidate Emily Clark has been awarded two fellowships, including a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship(DDRF) and a GSAS Mellon Humanities International Travel Fellowship from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia.
Congratulations to our Graduates!
posted
May
24,
2017
Congratulations to all of our graduates from the 2016-2017 academic year!