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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.
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.
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.
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.
A Historical Musicology Colloquium featuring Laura Silverberg (Columbia University) and Ryan Dohoney responding.
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.
