Hawai’ian Slack Key Guitar Legend CYRIL PAHINUI, Sat 10/13, 8pm (FREE)

The Center for Ethnomusicology’s “Native Sounds North & South” Series presents: CYRIL PAHINUI Hawai’ian Slack Key Guitar Virtuoso and Singer Saturday Oct. 13, 2012 8pm (note new time!) Davis Auditorium (CESPR/Schapiro Center, Enter from 120th St. and Broadway) This rare East Coast appearance of the noted guitarist is FREE and open to the public. For […]

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John-Carlos Perea, Elliot Humberto Kavee, AKU-MATU in concert, Sat 9/22, 7pm

The Center for Ethnomusicology’s “Native Sounds North & South” Series presents concert of Jazz and Hip-Hop by Native American/Native Alaskan recording artists: JOHN-CARLOS PEREA and Elliot Humberto Kavee and AKU-MATU Saturday September 22 Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Center (click for map) Columbia University Morningside Campus 7PM-10PM FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC       […]

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Prof. Susan Boynton at the “Book History Colloquium”, Thu 9/20, 6-7:30pm

Prof. Susan Boynton, historian of medieval music, liturgy, and monasticism,  and faculty in the Music Dept., presents a lecture titled “The Visigothic Script in the Age of Print: Politics and the History of Paleography“, on  Thursday, 9/20, from 6 – 7:30 pm, as part of the “Book History Colloquium“, presented by the Rare Book and […]

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Free workshop on Personal Digital Archiving, Thu 9/13, 1pm, in 523 Butler

    Avoid plunging into your own personal digital Dark Ages! Learn about some strategies and tools which may help you manage and archive your (no doubt growing amounts of) digital data. At this workshop, sponsored by the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS), Libraries staff will present on some of the issues and will […]

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Friday, Sept. 7, 2012 is Brazilian World Music Day!

Join the Archive of Contemporary Music (ARC) in celebrating Brazilian World Music Day on Friday, Sept. 7, 2012. Resources on popular Brazilian music in all forms have been contributed by participants from around the world, to build what ARC describes as “a free, permanently available, online database of Brazilian recordings and their locations around the […]

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Good Music, for a Good Cause! Saturday 4/21, 7:30pm

Join the Society of Emerging Artists, an orchestra featuring talented musicians from Columbia (including from Columbia Classical Performers), as well as from Juilliard, Manhattan School of Music, and NYU, in a benefit concert for the New York City Coalition Against Hunger. The suggested donation is $5-10. The concert will be held at Holy Trinity Church, […]

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Columbia New Music concert, Sat 4/7, 5pm in Lerner C555

How about celebrating spring with some newly-hatched music? Columbia New Music, in collaboration with Columbia Classical Performers, present a concert of new music by student and faculty composers. The concert is on Sat 4/7, at 5pm, in C555 Lerner Hall. Music will include pieces by Adrian Montufar Herrera, Solomon Hoffman, Tareq Abuissa, Conrad Tao, and […]

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“Ghost in the Instrument” Festival at Columbia, week of 3/19

The Computer Music Center at Columbia University presents a week of lectures, concerts, and workshops, “Ghost in the Instrument: Aspects of Musical Research and Composition“. The event is on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the PRISMA International Forum. All events are FREE and open to the public (registration is required for the software […]

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Congratulations to Yoshiaki Onishi for 2011 Gaudeamus Prize!

Congratulations to Columbian and current Teaching Fellow in the Music Dept. Yoshiaki Onishi on winning the 2011 Gaudeamus Prize, for his composition “Départ dans…”. Details of the award can be seen at this link. Some of his work will also be featured in the upcoming Gaudeamus Muziekweek New York, Jan. 25-28, 2012, presented by Issue […]

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