Events
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
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
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
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.
Clawing at the Limits of Cool:
Miles Davis, John Coltrane and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever
A talk and book signing with Farah Jasmine Griffin (Columbia University) and Salim Washington (Brooklyn College)
When Miles Davis invited the young John Coltrane to join his quintet in 1955, a collaboration was born that would change the landscape of jazz. In their new book, "Clawing at the Limits of Cool,” Farah Jasmine Griffin and Salim Washington focus on the profound implications of this collaboration.
Wednesday November 11, 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
This concert is free and open to the public.
Founded in 2001, Columbia Classical Performers seeks to support the community of classical musicians on campus who wish to perform in an intimate, stress-free environment for their peers. CCP works to give musicians performance opportunities by providing venues all over campus, coordinating recital logistics, publicizing events, and planning post-concert receptions. CCP has a dual function: to allow musicians an outlet to share their music with the public, and to provide the Columbia community with free, high-quality classical music. For more information please visit the CCP website at
http://sites.google.com/site/columbiaclassicalperformers/
or email
cuclassicalperformers@gmail.com
The Columbia Collegium Musicum performs Motets and Songs of Josquin.
Directed by Michael Shaw
St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009 at 8PM
Admission is free and open to the public.
In Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century, Greil Marcus delved into the cross-currents, tangles, and whirlpools that made such vastly different movements as dada, lettrism, the Situationist International, and punk part of a single current. To mark the just-published 20th-anniversary edition of the book, Columbia University in partnership with the ARChive of Contemporary Music present Greil Marcus in a one-man performance of Lipstick Traces. The event will take place on Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. at Altschul Auditorium, 417 International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street and is free and open to the public.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:
Manuel Pedro Ferreira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
"Congregati sunt inimici nostri: A Survey, a Codex, and The Holy War"
Friday November 20th, 4pm
Respondent: Sean Hallowell
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
A Voice Recital by students of Patrick Calleo and Sarah Wolfson
Friday, November 20, 2009 at 7:00 PM
301 Philosophy Hall (Graduate Student Lounge)
Pianist Kimmy Szeto will
accompany singers who will perform arias and songs by Puccini, Mozart,
Handel, Weill, Arlen, Wildhorn, and more.
Free and open to the public.
For more information, click here.
Sitarist Pradeep Ratnayake, who spent 2008-9 visiting in the Department as a Fulbright Fellow from Sri Lanka, offers a concert of South Asian and fusion musics featuring many friends, including Columbians Arthur Kampela and Terry Pender, on Friday, Nov. 20th at 8:30 PM, Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall.
TIckets at Carnegie Hall box office, or online at www.carnegiehall.org
CCP In Concert: Free Chamber Music
Monday, November 30, 6pm
301 Philosophy Hall (Graduate Student Lounge)
Program:
Beethoven Piano Sonata Op. 2 No. 2
Bach Partita No. III, BWV 1006 in E Major
Sibelius Violin Concerto
Beethoven Sonata Op. 111
301 Philosophy Hall (Graduate Student Lounge)
Free and open to the public
For more information please visit the CCP's new website:
http://sites.google.com/site/columbiaclassicalperformers/home/calendar
Ramin Arjomand, solo piano
Monday, November 30, 8PM
301 Philosophy Hall (Graduate Student Lounge)
Improvisations for our Time
Experimental music
Free and open to the public
Composer/pianist Ramin Arjomand received his DMA in Composition from Columbia and is
currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia.
Website: www.raminarjomand.com
Beyond Bach: Early Music for Solo Cello
Tuesday, December 1, 2009 at 8:00 PM
St. Paul's Chapel, Columbia University
Part of the MPP's Early Music Columbia's series
Andre Laurent O'Neil, baroque cello
Free and open to the public.
This program will include short works by Colombi, Gabrielli, Vitali, Scipriani, Duport,
and Andre Laurent O'Neil, as well as two Bach suites.
Faculty House Garden Room 2, Columbia University
Free and open to the public
Reception to follow
MPP celebrates its past, present, and future with a special chamber concert featuring
Music Performance Program Faculty, students, and alumni.
For more information please visit music.columbia.edu/mpp or email mpp@columbia.edu
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:
Elizabeth Davis, Columbia University, and Bob George, Founder and
Director, The ARChive of Contemporary Music
"A Force for American Music: The Alice M. Ditson Fund and The ARChive of Contemporary Music"
Friday December 4th, 4pm
Respondent: David Gutkin
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
CU Guitar Ensemble End-of-Semester Concert
Friday, December 4, 2009 at 6:00 PM
301 Philosophy Hall (Graduate Student Lounge)
Co-Directed by Marco Cappelli and Arthur Kampela
Free and open to the public
CU Jazz Vocal Ensemble in Concert
Friday, December 4, 2009 at 7:00 PM
112 Dodge Hall (Enter from College Walk)
Directed by Christine Correa
Free and Open to the public
A Voice Recital by students of Patrick Calleo and Sarah Wolfson
Friday, December 4, 2009 at 8:00 PM
301 Philosophy Hall (Graduate Student Lounge)
Free and open to the public
CU Big Band & CU Jazz Ensembles Fall Concert
Miller Theatre, 116th St. and Broadway
CU Big Band
Don Sickler, director
CU Jazz Ensembles
Ole Mathisen, Don Sickler, and Ben Waltzer, directors
with guest soloist Jimmy Heath, tenor and soprano saxophones
Free Admission
Open to the Public
CU World Music Triple-Header featuring Japanese Gagaku, Klezmer, and Bluegrass Ensembles
Sunday, December 6, 2009 at 5:00pm
301 Philosophy Hall (Graduate Student Lounge)
5pm CU Japanese Gagaku Ensemble
6pm CU Klezmer Band directed by Jeff Warschauer
7pm Lion in the Grass, the CU Bluegrass Band directed by Toby King
MPP Holiday Party to follow
Free and open to the public
CU Orchestra in Concert
Monday, December 7, 2009 at 8:00pm
Roone Arledge Auditorium, Lerner Hall
CUO FALL PROGRAM
Directed by Jeffrey Milarsky
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'une faune
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
INTERMISSION
Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1919 version)
For more information please email cuo@columbia.edu or visit columbia.edu/cu/cuo
CU Orchestra in Concert
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 at 8:00pm
Miller Theatre, 116th St. & Broadway
CUO FALL PROGRAM
Directed by Jeffrey Milarsky
Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'une faune
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
INTERMISSION
Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1919 version)
For more information please email cuo@columbia.edu or visit columbia.edu/cu/cuo
