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04 / 25
Start: 11:00 am
End: 12:00 pm

The Center for the Core Curriculum and the Music Humanities Program present:
The Annual Music Humanities Course-Wide Lecture
featuring the renowned neurologist and writer:
Dr. Oliver Sacks
(Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, and Columbia Artist).

Dr. Sacks will speak on: "Musicophilia: Music and the Brain."

The lecture will take place on Friday, April 25 at 11AM
in the Roone Arledge Auditorium
of Columbia's Lerner Hall, and it is free and open to the public.

(get directions)

Learn more about Oliver Sacks here.

(Photograph by Eileen Barroso for Columbia News.)

Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm

A Historical Musicology Colloquium featuring Joseph Dubiel (Columbia University).  Respondant TBA.

All HM Colloquiua are free and open to the public.
Contact dmc2127@columbia.edu for more information.

Start: 5:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm

This will be our last concert for the school year!  Join us for another great evening of music performed by Columbia students, followed by a reception. 

Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm

Featuring works of Columbia Undergraduate composers. This event is free.

 

Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm

Columbia University Big Band in Concert with special guest Bobby Watson
Directed by Don Sickler


THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Start: 8:30 pm
End: 10:00 pm

Michael Skelly's piano students - Nathan Dadap, Christopher Haas, Chris Morris-Lent, Emmy Smith, Andrew Wan, and Claire Zukowski play Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, and Bartok.

 FREE and open to the public.

04 / 26
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm

Rebecca Fuller performs Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, and Prokofiev.

FREE and open to the public. 

Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm

FREE ADMISSION

Playing works by Mahler, Robert Cuckson, and Arvo Part.

04 / 27
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm

FREE ADMISSION w/ CUID, $5 non-CUID

Program (chosen by the seniors!):
Canzona - Peter Mennin
Emblems - Aaron Copland
Chorale Prelude: Turn Not Thy Face - Vincent Persichetti
American Faces - David Holsinger
Ride of the Valkyries - Richard Wagner, arr. Robert Longfield
Symphony no. 3 - Alfred Reed
II.  Variations on the "Porazzi" Theme of Wagner
Italian in Algiers Overture - Gioacchino Rossini, arr. Lucien
Cailliet

Start: 4:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm

FREE ADMISSION

Program:
Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 4 in G Major
Transcribed for chamber ensemble by Erwin Stein
Samantha Grenell-Zaidman, soprano
Mark Seto, conductor

Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
Artists International presents...


~~The G-Sharp Duo ~~

in their NY Debut concert

featuring


Emilie-Anne Gendron
, violin


Yelena Grinberg
, piano*

*Recipient of the 2008 Outstanding Alumni-Winners Award in Piano*

Program:

04 / 28
04 / 29
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 7:00 pm

The Department of Music presents a colloquium by Josh Pilzer (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Music at Columbia University) entitled: A Survivors' Music Manifesto: On the Singing of Korean Survivors of the Japanese Military 'Comfort Women'

The colloquium will take place in 701C Dodge Hall, on Tuesday April 29, at 5PM. It is free and open to the public, and a reception will follow the colloquium.

In Taegu

Please note the 5PM start time is one hour later than many of our previous events.

Josh Pilzer is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Music at Columbia. He holds an MA in Ethnomusicology from University of Hawai'i and a PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago. His research and teaching focus on Korean and Japanese folk and popular singing and the experience, memory, and memorialization of traumatic events in East Asian modernity. He is currently working on a manuscript based on his doctoral dissertation, about singing in the lives of Korean survivors of Japanese military sexual slavery. He received the Society for Ethnomusicology's Charles Seeger Prize in 2001; his articles have appeared in Ethnomusicology, in The Courtesan's Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Oxford University Press 2006), and elsewhere.

Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm

The Columbia Music Department, Music Performance Program, and Music at St. Paul's Present:

The Collegium Musicum

REJUVENATIONS

Directed by Sean M. Parr

 

Performing
Mozart's Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, K.339 with orchestra. Also
featuring works by Allegri, Bach, Faure, and Gesualdo, and premieres by
Columbia Composers.

Carl Bettendorf

Anthony Cheung

04 / 30
05 / 1
05 / 2
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm

Accompanied by pianist Sam Sternberg.

05 / 3
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm

Center for Traditional Music and Dance, Ukrainian Wave, Columbia Teachers College Music and Music Education Department and New York Bandura Ensemble present:

05 / 4
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm

Kathleen O'Rourke, music major at Barnard College, cordially invites you to attend her
senior vocal recital on Sunday, May 4th at 6:30pm in Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall. The
evening's repertoire will include arias from the oeuvre of Mozart, Schumann, Massenet,
Gounod, Menotti, and Bernstein. Reception to follow.

Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm


Come hear the premieres of four new pieces written by composers in Prof. Tristan Murail's
Advanced Composition class.

The Talea Ensemble and conductor Carl Christian Bettendorf

performs new works for septet by Jordan Paul, Gabriel Kass, Ravi Kittappa, and Hunter Hunt-Hendrix.

301 Philosophy Hall at 8 PM, Sunday, May 4, 2008.

Free admission.

Come support your talented composer colleagues and friends!

05 / 5
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm

Joint voice recital by Rose Andreatta, Elisabeth Fabila, Julie Schoonover, and Sarah Terry, members of the Columbia University Voice Ensemble Class.  Includes music by Mozart, Schumann, and Puccini.  Accompanied by pianist Sam Sternberg.

05 / 6
Start: 8:00 pm

The Columbia University Wind Ensemble performs with the InterSchool Orchestra of the NYC Symphonic Band, the Morningside Orchestra, and Turtle Bay Orchestra.

Start: 8:00 pm
End: 10:00 pm
The Manhattan Sinfonietta
Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor and music director

Young Lions: World Premieres of new works for large chamber ensemble by advanced
composition doctoral candidates
Michael Klingbeil, Aenon Jia-en Loo, Katharina
Rosenberger
.

Merkin Concert Hall
129 W. 67th St.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008, 8PM
Free admission, with a reception to follow

http://www.manhattansinfonietta.org

05 / 7
Start: 9:00 pm
End: 11:00 pm

 

bleugrass

Don't miss your last chance to party with Lion in the Grass, Columbia's Bluegrass Band.

Come one, come all to their final spring concert.

Wednesday, May 7th

9:00 - 11:00 pm

05 / 8
05 / 9
05 / 10
05 / 11
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm

Come for the first Overlook Concert of the spring season featuring the CU Wind Ensemble. Bring a group of friends and listen to some great music in Riverside park!

This is part of the 'Overlook Concerts" Series featuring Columbia's music ensembles. This event is co-sponsored by the Music Performance Program and the Riverside Park Fund.

Free and open to the public.

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05 / 17
05 / 18
05 / 19
05 / 20
Start: 7:30 pm
End: 9:30 pm


Geoffrey Burgess
, who has been visiting on the Columbia Historical Musicology faculty this
year, is also a renowned oboist, and next week will collaborate with the Choir of Trinity
Church
at Wall Street in music of the French Baroque: not his usual area of opera, but in
a program of music from the Chapelle Royale.


Tuesday, May 20, 2008 @ 7:30 pm

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