Events

Directed by Professor Chris Washburne, the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program offers both undergraduate and graduate students jazz performance opportunities and private lessons. There are a variety of jazz ensembles, both large and small, instrumental and vocal,that cover a wide range of musical styles.  All ensembles perform at an intermediate level or higher and require some past jazz experience. The jazz ensembles include:
    Big Band
    Small Groups
    Jazz Vocal Ensemble
    Latin Jazz

Auditions for the Jazz Performance Program are held in the Fall semester only.  Please be sure to sign up for a time slot ahead of time.  Audition sign up sheets will go up on the bulletin board outside of 618 Dodge Hall in August.All auditions will take place in 112 Dodge Hall (enter from College Walk).

Instrumental
Wednesday, September 9, 2009 from 4:00 – 10:00 PM
Friday, September 11, 2009 from 2:00 – 6:00 PM

Vocal
Friday, September 11, 2009 from 10:00AM – 2:00 PM


Audition Requirements:

Conducted by Gail Archer, the Barnard-Columbia Chorus and Chamber Choir includes members of the entire university community - undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and alumni - and annually presents the traditional Columbia Candlelight Concert in St. Paul’s Chapel in December and a spring concert in April. The choir has joined forces with orchestras to perform masterworks by composers from Monteverdi to Stravinsky. All voice parts are welcome after an informal audition. The Chorus rehearses twice a week in 405 Milbank (Barnard campus), with additional rehearsals before each concert.  Their first rehearsal of Fall 2009 will be on September 15, 2009 at 6PM in 405 Milbank Hall on the Barnard campus.  All voices are welcome. For more information, please email Gail Archer at garcher@barnard.edu.  Class registration is through Music @ Barnard.

The Columbia Klezmer Band, advised by renowned Klezmer Conservatory Band member Jeff Warschauer, is recruiting new musicians. Auditions will take place on Wednesday, September 16 from 8-10 PM in Dodge Hall, room 405. If you are interested in learning Eastern European folk tunes and you want to have lots of fun experiencing a unique musical style, contact Hannah Yudkin at hy2216@barnard.edu for more information.

You are Invited:

MPP Welcome Party and Piano Recital by Michael Skelly
Date: Thursday, September 17, 2009, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Faculty House Garden Room 2, 400 W. 117th St. (East Campus)
Free and open to the public.

7-8pm Reception
8-9pm Piano recital by Michael Skelly with Julia Bruskin, cello

Deborah Bradley-Kramer and Eleanor Lipat-Chesler of the CU Music Performance Program invite all new and continuing Music Performance Program chamber and lesson students, Music Associates, Jazz, Bluegrass, Klezmer, Gagaku, Voice ensemble members, and Music Department faculty, students and staff for our Fall 2009 welcome party.  Enjoy meeting new faces, greeting old friends, and gearing up for a fun year of music-making together.  All are welcome!

The evening will feature a piano recital by CU Music faculty member Michael Skelly with Julia Bruskin, cello.

PROGRAM

Beethoven   Sonata in e minor, Op. 90

MPP Director Deborah Bradley-Kramer invites all new and continuing Music Performance Program chamber and lesson students, Music Associates, Jazz, Bluegrass, Klezmer, Gagaku, Voice ensemble members, and Music Department faculty and staff for our Fall 2009 welcome party.  Enjoy meeting new faces, greeting old friends, and gearing up for a fun year of music-making together.  The evening will feature a piano recital by Columbia Music Faculty member Michael Skelly with Julia Bruskin, cello.

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.

DOLAN PRIZE AUDITIONS: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 from 9:30-12:00, Room 405

This Prize is for undergraduate students who are already taking lessons with an outside teacher, and wish to continue to do so. Priority is given to students taking lessons on an instrument not offered at Columbia. Audition requirements: Perform one piece and bring a recommendation letter from your teacher, stating her/his fee.

Questions?  Please contact the CU Music Performance Program at  mpp@columbia.edu.

Columbia University Center for Jazz Studies in collaboration with Harlem Stage presents
Uptown Nights 2012: The Hip Hop Experiment

A hot new series of high-powered performances and social-mixing  

Featuring live performance by Marc Cary
And his Black Instruments Band

With special guests Phonte (Little Brothers), Peven Everett, Jessica Care Moore, DJ Jazzy Jay, Chance a Million, Crystal Monee Hall, Len Tuac Xiang and many more.

Saturday September 26, 2009
6pm Conversation with Marc Cary & George E. Lewis (Columbia University)
8:30pm Main Event
11:30pm DJ set

Harlem Stage Gate House
150 Convent Ave. @ 135th Street
New York, NY 10031

$15 Cover Charge
Buy Tickets at HarlemStage.org or call 212-281-9240 ext. 19/20

Receive $1 off when you use code MCCOL

Columbia University Center for Jazz Studies in collaboration with Harlem Stage presents
Uptown Nights 2012: The Hip Hop Experiment

A hot new series of high-powered performances and social-mixing  

Featuring live performance by Marc Cary
And his Black Instruments Band

With special guests Phonte (Little Brothers), Peven Everett, Jessica Care Moore, DJ Jazzy Jay, Chance a Million, Crystal Monee Hall, Len Tuac Xiang and many more.

Saturday September 26, 2009
6pm Conversation with Marc Cary & George E. Lewis (Columbia University)
8:30pm Main Event
11:30pm DJ set

Harlem Stage Gate House
150 Convent Ave. @ 135th Street
New York, NY 10031

$15 Cover Charge
Buy Tickets at HarlemStage.org or call 212-281-9240 ext. 19/20

Receive $1 off when you use code MCCOL

COLUMBIA VOICE ENSEMBLE CONCERT
By students of Sarah Wolfson and Patrick Calleo

Friday, October 2, 2009 at 7:00 PM
301 Philosophy Hall
FREE and open to the public

PROGRAM
Eloise Eonnet
O mio babino caro from Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini
La Habanera from Carmen by Georges Bizet
 
August Du Pont
My Friends from Sweeny Todd by Steven Sondheim
River by Joni Mitchell
 
Emily Buttner
Far From the Home I Love from Fiddler on the Roof  by Jerry Bock
I Know Things Now from Into The Woods by Stephen Sondheim
 
Sarah Terry
What Good Would the Moon Be from Street Scene by Kurt Weill
Back to Before from Ragtime by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty
 
Elisabeth Fabila
Seeing You from Right This Way by Sammy Fain and Irving Kahal

Christina Macchiarola
On My Own from Les Miserables by Claude-Michel Schonberg
Never Never Land from Peter Pan by Jule Styne
 
Kurt Kanazawa
Ah! Per sempre io ti perdei... from I Puritani by Vicenzo Bellini

Come out for CCP's first showcase of the Fall Semester!
FREE and open to the public.  Reception to follow.

Founded in 2001, CCP is a student-run organization that works to give musicians performance outlets while presenting free high-quality classical music to the Columbia community.  For more information, contact cuclassicalperformers@gmail.com

Music for shamisen, koto, and shakuhachi with Yoko Hiraoka and Ralph Sauelson.  A free one-hour lecture-demonstration that is open to the public.

For more information please contact the Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies at (212)854-7403 or medievaljapan@columbia.edu

Department of Music is cosponsoring with EALAC and the Donald Keene Center a lecture by Giorgio Biancorosso, University of Hong Kong:

Music as Anamorphic Spot: The Radio Broadcast in *Tengoku to Jigoku* ("High and Low," dir. A. Kurosawa, 1963)
October 8th (Thursday) 6:00-7:30pm
Room 403 Kent Hall
Map: http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/kent.html

Lecturer bio:

The Daedalus Quartet performs for CU Music Humanities classes
First set at 9:10am
Second set at 10:35am

A Group-in-Residence of the CU Music Performance Program, the renowned Daedalus Quartet will perform all five movements of Bela Bartok's Fourth Quartet, in two separate one-hour performances.  This event is free, and members of the public may also observe.

Featuring:
Min-Young Kim, violin
Kyu-Young Kim, violin
Jessica Thompson, viola
Raman Ramakrishnan, cello

Thelonious Monk:
The Life and Times of an American Original

A book signing, conversation, and music performance with Robin D.G. Kelley (University of Southern California) and composer/pianist Randy Weston

Prize-winning historian Robin Kelley will discuss his most recent book, Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (Simon and Schuster, 2009), the first book on the pianist and composer based on exclusive access to the Monk family papers and private recordings. In addition, Professor Kelley will explore Monk's legacy in words and music with pianist and composer Randy Weston.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 7:30 pm
Dwyer Cultural Center
258 St. Nicholas Ave at 123rd Street
Free and open to the public

Presented by the Columbia/Harlem Jazz Project, with support from the Office of the President, Columbia University

The CU Music Performance Program presents:
The Daedalus Quartet: Night of the Living Daed

A Group-in-Residence of the CU Music Performance Program, the renowned Daedalus Quartet will perform Beethoven's Quartet Op. 131.  

Featuring:
Min-Young Kim, violin
Kyu-Young Kim, violin
Jessica Thompson, viola
Raman Ramakrishnan, cello

Take a break from your studies and experience classical music in a whole new way. Enjoy a midnight snack, and bring a sleeping bag and pillow if you like!  This event is free and open to the public.

For more information please visit music.columbia.edu/mpp

"In The Best Possible Light": A Conversation with Herman Leonard
A discussion of "In The Best Possible Light: Herman Leonard's Jazz," an exhibition of Leonard's work at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Exploring the Aesthetics of the jazz image with one of the leading photographers of our time.

With Herman Leonard, photographer; Kellie Jones, Professor of Art History, Columbia University; and Leonard exhibition co-curators C. Daniel Dawson, Diedra Harris-Kelley and Garnette Cadogan.

Introduced and Moderated by Robert G. O'Meally, Zora Neale Hurston Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Founder, The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University

Monday, October 19, 2009, 7:30 pm
301 Philosophy Hall, Columbia University Morningside Campus
Free and open to the public

The Louis Armstrong Lecture
James Brown’s Body and The Revolution of the Mind
A talk with author Greg Tate (Visiting Louis Armstrong Professor, Columbia University)

Louis Armstrong Visiting Professor Greg Tate discusses his upcoming book on the life and cultural legacy of “The Godfather of Soul.”

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 TIME TBA
301 Philosophy Hall, Columbia University Morningside Campus
Free and Open to the public

For more information on the Center for Jazz Studies events, please visit www.jazz.columbia.edu or call (212) 851-1633

2009-10 DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC COLLOQUIUM SERIES

Most Department colloquia are held in 622 Dodge Hall and are free and open to the public.

For the Fall 2009 Music Colloquium Series we are proud to present:

Amy Beal, University of California, Santa Cruz
"The Music of Carla Bley"
Friday October 23rd, 4pm
Respondent: Beau Bothwell
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Jazz Studies

Please visit http://music.columbia.edu/colloquia for  other presentations in this colloquium series!

Please see the event listings on the right sidebar of this page for detailed information or last-minute changes. To inquire about our colloquium series, please contact the organizer, Prof. Karen Henson, at: kh2174@columbia.edu

Columbia Classical Performers
Works by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Isang Yun, Piatti, and Vaughn Williams

Hilary Baboukis, soprano
Catherine Rice, oboe
Alex Fortes, Ken Hamao, and Alexandra Rice, violin
Eli Lara, Elizabeth Lyon, and Tavi Ungerledier, cello
Josh Arky, bass
Xiaoyin Chen, Mi-Eun Kim, Wei Sim, and Becky Lu, piano

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 7:00PM
Miller Theatre • 116th St. and Broadway • For more information call 212-854-7799
This concert is free and open to the public.

Professor Walter Frisch elaborates on the complicated task of a music historian: How does one reconcile the aesthetic and intrinsic qualities of music with the broader cultural and historical contexts in which it was composed and heard?

November 2nd, 6 - 7 pm
PicNic Cafe 2665 Broadway
$10 cover

Historical Musicology Program
2009 AMS Meeting Preview Colloquium

Friday, Nov. 6, 2-5PM, 622 Dodge Hall

Featured speakers:
Louise Chernosky
Kristy Riggs
Ryan Dohoney
Daniel Callahan

The event will be moderated by Prof. Walter Frisch.  It is free and open to the public. 

(Please click the poster image to view the program in detail at a larger size.)

The Center for Ethnomusicology is pleased to present a public colloquium featuring  Sonia Seeman (Assistant Professor, Department of Music, University of Texas at Austin), entitled:

Metaphoricity, Iconicity and Mimesis: Towards a Musical Semantics of Social Identity in Turkish Roman (“Gypsy”) Music

The colloquium will be held from 4-6PM on Tuesday, November 6, 2009, in 701C Dodge.  It is free and open to the public. For more information, please click here.