Bard Hall Players
Affiliation: College of Physicians & Surgeons
Location: College of Physicians & Surgeons Alumni Auditorium
Phone: 2123047025
Website: http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/ps/affairs/psclub/clubs/bhp.htm
E-Mail: kj142@columbia.edu, nmh2106@columbia.edu
Contact: Kim Jain, Noami Halsey
BHP is the most active medical center theater company in the country and one of the largest extracurricular groups on the Columbia Medical Center campus. Since 1963, BHP has been doing the impossible: producing three fully-mounted theatrical productions each academic year. Drawing on the creativity, design, energy, and performance skills of students and faculty, the group creates entertainment of high artistic quality that also manages to be great fun for all involved.
Arts Administration Program
Affiliation: Teachers College
Phone: 212-678-3271
Website: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/academic/arad/
E-Mail: arad@columbia.edu
Contact: Joan Jeffri, Director
The Arts Administration program reflects the conviction that the management of cultural institutions and arts organizations requires strategic planning, artistic creativity and social commitment. The arts managers capable of responding to the challenges and responsibilities of the arts must possess integrated management and financial skills, knowledge of the artistic process in which they are involved and sensitivity to the dynamics and educational needs of the communities they serve. The Program, which offers a Master of Arts degree, represents an alliance of four disciplines: arts, education, business, and law. It is designed to help professionals meet the challenges of the next decade. These challenges include questions about the long-term health of arts organizations; their missions, governance and management; sources of income, and tax regulations. Such issues as freedom of expression, First Amendment rights, censorship and government intervention in the arts have important implications for international, educational, and cultural policy, and are integral to the Program. Today, arts administration training in the United States is a model in the field,that addresses worldwide concerns.
L'Atelier: A French Performance Troupe
E-Mail: Latelier@barnard.edu
Contact: Jon Brilliant
L'Atelier (French for "the studio" or "the workshop") is Columbia's first and only French language performance group. Founded in 2003, the club aims to offer a creative outlet for French language studies. Actors learning French or French speakers eager to perform are all welcome, regardless of level. L'Atelier strives to create a creative community as well as a highly dynamic language environment. Members from Columbia College, SEAS, and GS work hand-in-hand with graduate students and occassional faculty participants. Additionally, we focus on more experimental performance, rather than the traditional canon of French theater. Previous shows include works by Ionesco, Tardieu, Claudelle, as well as a rendition of /Hiroshima Mon Amour/ and several original short films. L'Atelier also offers party events, such as a French karaoke night and a Cabaret.
Bacchantae
Bach Society
Website: http://www.bachsociety.com
E-Mail: bach@columbia.edu
Since its founding in 1999 by a group of Columbia University musicians, the Bach Society (orchestra and chorus) has become a major part of musical life both at Columbia and throughout Manhattan. Composed of Columbia students as well as young musicians from around New York, the Bach Society presents several concerts both on and off campus during each academic year. The primary focus of the Bach Society's performance activities is the music, legacy , and influence of J.S. Bach.
Barnard College Musical Theatre
Barnard-Columbia Chamber Singers
Barnard-Columbia Chorus
Bhangra
Website: http://cubhangra.com
E-Mail: bhangra@columbia.edu
Contact: Akhila Vasthare
Established in 2002, cuBHANGRA is a Punjabi Folk dance team representing Columbia University. The team's dance is first and foremost inspired by a passion for Punjabi culture. cuBHANGRA prides itself in its high energy and creative dancing style. They have placed 2nd at Bhangra Blizzard and 3rd at Bhangra Blowout. Forged in the heart of Punjab and brought together by the great city of New York, prepare yourself for the sensation that is cuBHANGRA.
C.U.M.B. (Columbia Univerity Marching Band)
Website: http://www.cumb.org
E-Mail: majordomo@columbia.edu
In the 50s, our great country was going through a lot of changes. Disco was at its peak, little Shirley Temple was charming the hearts of American everywhere, Jesus was walking the earth, and Ronald Reagan was pushing hard for the new Women's suffrage movement. The Columbia University Marching Band, which had always been slightly wacky, tooka good look at itself. "How," we asked ourselves, "could we make being in a marching band even more fun?" Well, we decided that the whole marching around and forming rhombi thing had gone out of style with World War II. So we introduced the world to the "scramble band" concept--so named for the way bandies would scramble from one interesting formation to the next. As Band became more popular, people who didn't play stuff started to join solely as an outlet for their cleverness.
Center for Ethnomusicology
Affiliation: Department of Music
Location: 701A and 701C Dodge Hall
Phone: 212-854-7185
Website: http://www.music.columbia.edu/%7Ececenter/CenterSite/index.html
E-Mail: aaf19@columbia.edu
Contact: Prof. Aaron A. Fox, Director
The Center for Ethnomusicology is a unique institution in the discipline and at Columbia University. Founded in 1967 by Professor Willard Rhodes and Prof. Nicholas England, the Center was an institutional home to the prominent mid-century music collector Laura Boulton during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Center is more than an archive of tapes and instruments. It is also the hub of the graduate program in ethnomusicology at Columbia, and of musical activity on the Columbia campus. We support the work of our graduate students and enrich the content of our undergraduate classes by sponsoring talks and performances by major scholars and musicians. We sponsor a regular slate of talks and performances of vernacular and traditional musics.
Center for Jazz Studies
Affiliation: Department of English
Location: Prentis Hall, 4th Floor
Phone: 212-851-1633
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cjs/
E-Mail: jazz@columbia.edu
The mission of Columbia University's Center for Jazz Studies is to include jazz as a part of Columbia University's core curriculum for the twenty-first century. In keeping with the great mission of Columbia University as a whole, the Center for Jazz Studies is committed to offering students a "broad range of innovative multidisciplinary programs, and through the earnest exploration of difficult questions," to provide "students from the United States and around the world with the depth of understanding and intellectual flexibility they need to respond to the challenges in the years to come."
Center for Korean Research
Affiliation: Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ckr/
The Center for Korean Research was established within the East Asian Institute in 1988 with the generous support of the Korean Committee for the Promotion of Korean Studies at Columbia University, and continued to expand with the support of the Korean Foundation. In cooperation with other organizations from inside and outside the East Asian Institute, the Center has sponsored visiting scholars and research associates as well as cultural events such as movies and concerts, monthly Contemporary Korean Affairs Seminars, and noon lecture series on Korea-related topics. Among the most important goals pursued by the Center has been the expansion of Korean instructional resources in history, political science/international relations, sociology, anthropology, business, economics, and literature. Visiting Professors from Korea affiliated with the institute have included Dr. Sung-joo Han, Dr. Sang-jin Han, Dr. Roy Kim, and others, who have offered a variety of courses at Columbia in their specific fields.
Chamber Ensemble
Citizen: The Campus Talk Show
Website: http://friendsofcitizen.org
E-Mail: talkshow@columbia.edu
Cornel West, Gloria Steinem, Bell Hooks, Hyun Kyung Chung, and Eddie Palmieri anchored the first season of Citizen: The Campus Talk Show. Hosted by Teachers College adjunct lecturer and doctoral candidate Kelvin Shawn Sealey, Citizen features celebrated guests in dialogue with the host on issues of social consequence. Each show runs approximately one hour and tickets are free to the public.
Clefhangers
Website: http://www.clefs.net
E-Mail: clefhangers@columbia.edu
The Clefhangers (a.k.a. "Clefs") are students at Columbia University who form a shockingly hot contemporary coed a cappella group in NYC. Since 1988, they've been singing their heads off from California to Georgia to Paris. Last Fall they took first place in the Quartetfinal Round of the ICCAs, winning the award for Best Choreography and Best Vocal Percussion! Check out their latest album, 47 Doors.
Collegium Musicum
Website: http://music.columbia.edu/collegium/
E-Mail: columbiacollegium@yahoo.com
The Collegium Musicum is one of Columbia University's leading choral ensembles. While traditionally maintaining a lean, intimate chamber choir size of 16 to 40 members, the repertoire of the last 10 years of the Collegium has included ventures into such ambitious repertoire as the Brahms Requiem, in collaboration with the Manhattan School of Music choir and Columbia University Orchestra. Founded in the mid-1950s, the Collegium was first conceived as an opportunity for graduate students in musicology to experience early music in a performance context that was tightly integrated with the academic curriculum. It soon developed into an ensemble featuring instruments as well as singers (with world renowned music scholar Richard Taruskin as its first gambist). The staple repertoire of the Collegium has been Medieval and Renaissance composers such as Machaut, Josquin, Palestrina, Ockeghem, Tallis, and Byrd as well as Baroque composers such as Monteverdi and Bach. The Collegium also has a commitment to perform works which are not frequently performed, as well as 20-th century and contemporary music. Recent examples of this are concerts featuring the works of John Cage and Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms. The Collegium has served as a springboard for former directors, some of whom have founded notable ensembles including Capella Nova (Richard Taruskin), Pomerium (Alexander Blachly), and Anonymous 4 (Susan Hellauer), and Eric Rice (the Collegium Musicum of University of Connecticut). Historic recordings of the Collegium can still be found at http://minstrelrecords.com/Coll_Des.htm
Columbia Classical Performers
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ccp/
E-Mail: jam2072@columbia.edu
Contact: Jamie Madell
Columbia Classical Performers is a new student-run club on campus. Their mission is to help musicians at Columbia have accessible solo performance opportunities on campus. This year, they will have four recitals per semester, with a one and a half hour cap per concert. They also help musicians plan their own solo recitals by assisting them in finding performance venues on campus.
Columbia Composers
Website: http://music.columbia.edu/%7Ecc/
E-Mail: cc@music.columbia.edu
Columbia Composers is a non-profit student-run organzation created in the 1950's to perform musical works by Columbia graduate students.
Columbia Concerts
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/concerts/
E-Mail: concerts@columbia.edu
Columbia Daily Spectator: Arts & Entertainment
Website: http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/SEC/Arts+%26+Entertainment
E-Mail: arts@columbiaspectator.com
The Columbia Daily Spectator is the second-oldest college daily paper in the country and has been financially independent form the University since 1962. The newspaper is published five days a week during the academic year and weekly during the summer. The Columbia Daily Spectator is written and edited by Columbia University undergraduates. It serves the communities of Columbia University and Morningside Heights as a forum for the expression of diverse viewpoints, a top source for in-depth and comprehensive news and features, and a rewarding extracurricular opportunity for their staff. Serving a community of over 60,000 students, facutly, administrators, and Morningside Heights residents, the Columbia Daily Spectator is the most widely read newspaper in Morningside Heights and Harlem.
Columbia Music Presents
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cmp/
E-Mail: cmpboard@columbia.edu
Columbia Musical Theatre Society
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cmts/
E-Mail: cmts@columbia.edu
Columbia Musical Theatre Society strives to bring the highest quality theatrical performances, large and small, both musicals and straight plays, to the Columbia University community. CMTS is commited to giving students an opportunity to work in any aspect of a production regardless of their major or school. Each semester, CMTS produces a number of shows, in which students independently direct, design, act, and serve in all other roles of the production. By utilizing all the talent of the Columbia community, CMTS aims to produce amateur shows on a level with the surrounding professional scene. Any affiliate of Columbia University who has participated in a CMTS-sponsored production in any capacity within the last twelve months or as Production Head at any date is considered a member.
Columbia New Music
Website: http://www.columbianewmusic.com/
E-Mail: mail@columbianewmusic.com
Columbia New Music provides a venue to join student composers and performers who are interested in new music. Showcasing the talents of both groups, we attempt to present "new music" to a broad range of listeners in order to portray the beauty and diversity of music that is informed by our modern age. Columbia New Music supports all forms of new musical creativity, from classical composition, to electronic music, to noise, experimental jazz, and other popular mediums.
Columbia University Gospel Choir
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gospel/
E-Mail: via WebPage
The purpose for the Columbia University Gospel Choir is to rejoice in the name of God through song as well as minister to the Columbia community. They are a Christian ministry dedicated to spreading the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They seek to lead others to the wonderful love and grace of Jesus Christ. The Gospel Choir relays the message of the Gospel through musical performances throughout the year. They meet to fellowship and sing praise to God.
Columbia University Jazz Ensemble
Location: 621 Dodge Hall
Phone: 212-854-9862
Website: http://www.music.columbia.edu/mpp/jazz.html
E-Mail: cjw5@columbia.edu
Contact: Prof. Chris Washburne
This ensemble offers advanced level jazz musicians in Columbia's student body an opportunity to perform in a small jazz group setting playing variety of jazz styles including straight ahead, Latin jazz, and bebop. Performances will take place at Smoke, one of New York's premier jazz clubs. The ensemble is directed by Prof. Chris Washburne. The group will be limited to eight musicians. The ensemble will meet every Friday from 1-3 PM in 112 Dodge Hall. Two Sunday afternoon performances at Smoke each semester and other additional campus performances will be required (1 credit hour). The ensemble will also perform at various social events around the campus.
Columbia University Jazz Orchestra
Website: http://www.music.columbia.edu/mpp/jazz.html
E-Mail: ds228@columbia.edu
Contact: Don Sickler
This ensemble is directed by Don Sickler and is open to both advanced and less experienced jazz performers and offers experience in small group straight ahead styles. There is no limit on the number of musicians. The ensemble meets weekly (schedule TBA) and one end of the semester concert is required (1 credit hour).
Columbia University Orchestra
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cuo/index.html
E-Mail: cuo@columbia.edu
The Columbia University Orchestra was founded by composer Edward MacDowell in 1896, and is the oldest continually operating university orchestra in the United States. As a course within the Department of Music, the principal mission of the Orchestra is to give students the opportunity to perform in an ensemble of the most challenging nature possible.
Columbia University Wind Ensemble
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/wind/
E-Mail: wind-exec@columbia.edu
The Columbia Wind Ensemble is comprised of 55 woodwind, brass and percussion players who are undergraduate students, graduate students, and community members from all academic fields. The group performs the best of the wind ensemble repertoire which vary in instrumentation and style. On average the Wind Ensemble plays four formal concerts per school year in different venues around the Columbia University campus. Membership is by audition.
Columbia Universty Glee Club
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/glee/
The Columbia University Glee Club is the oldest student organization at Columbia and one of the oldest in the country. Each semester, the Glee Club performs one large concert, in addition to singing at other functions throughout the year. The Glee Club welcomes new members, even those with minimal singing experience; auditions are not necessary.
Computer Music Center
Affiliation: Department of Music
Location: Prentis Hall, 3rd Floor
Phone: 212-854-9266
Website: http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/
E-Mail: cmc@music.columbia.edu
The Computer Music Center at Columbia University is a state-of-the-art computer music facility. The center is housed in two separate facilities: one in Dodge Hall on the main Columbia campus (1/9 train to 116th St.), and another, larger facility on the third floor of Prentis Hall (1/9 train to 125th St.). There are a lot of interesting people involved in varying ways at the CMC. Students working at the CMC come to us from many different divisions within Columbia University. The CMC's primary function is to serve the interests of graduate composers and theorists within Columbia's graduate programs in music, and to aid graduate students in other divisions (e.g. Computer Science, Psychology) in their research interests. However, the CMC has also been involved in a number of projects and events that aim to reach out to a wider community.
CU Records
Website: http://www.curecords.com
E-Mail: curecords@gmail.com
Current Musicology
Location: Dodge Hall
Phone: 212-854-1632
Website: http://music.columbia.edu/~curmus/
E-Mail: current-musicology@columbia.edu
Contact: Karen Hiles
Current Musicology (CM) is a leading forum for scholarly music research, seeking to reflect the forefront of thought in historical musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory, as well as music cognition, philosophy of music, and interdisciplinary studies. CM was founded in 1965 by graduate students at Columbia University as a semiannual review that would primarily serve the needs of musicologists who are about to undertake, are presently engaged in, or have recently completed their graduate studies. From its inception, the aim of the journal was to publish short articles of research, criticism, and opinion, predominantly by younger authors. The term 'musicology' in the journal's title is to be understood in the broadest sense possible. The wide scope of the journal is evident in special issues devoted to specific topics, in the broad range of scholarship encouraged, and in the variety of books reviewed.
Department of Music
Affiliation: GSAS
Location: 621 Dodge Hall
Phone: 212-854-3825
Website: http://www.music.columbia.edu/
Uniquely among the arts at Columbia, Music has its home in a Department, where its creators, interpreters, and scholars work together. For more than one hundred years, the Department of Music has supported musical study ranging from professional training in composition and scholarship to the criticism and appreciation of music as a liberal art, including a course in the Core Curriculum. Scholarship in Music includes the theoretical, analytical, historical, and ethnographic, combined and reconfigured by renowned faculty who also make close connections to philosophy, psychology, anthropology, history, comparative literature, linguistics, computer science, and other disciplines. Opportunities for solo and ensemble performance are likewise offered at every level, with and without academic credit, in the Music Performance Program. The Department sponsors a variety of concerts, lectures, and colloquia, all open to the public, most free of charge. Some of the Department's work is concentrated in the Center for Ethnomusicology and the Computer Music Center (formerly the Electronic Music Center), two of the most important institutions in their fields. The Fritz Reiner Center for Contemporary Music supports the regular concerts of new work given by Columbia Composers and the Columbia Sinfonietta, presentations by visiting composers, and other projects. The Department's performing ensembles include the Columbia University Orchestra, Columbia University Wind Ensemble, Barnard-Columbia Chorus and Chamber Singers, Collegium Musicum, Jazz Ensembles, World Music ensembles (among them bluegrass and klezmer), and many chamber groups. Music scores and audio and video recordings, as well as listening and viewing facilities, can be found in the Gabe M. Wiener Music and Arts Library. Department students edit and publish the interdisciplinary journal Current Musicology.
Department of Music - Barnard
Affiliation: Barnard College
Website: http://www.barnard.edu/music/
E-Mail: ga61@columbia.edu
Contact: Gail Archer, Director
Deutsches Haus
Affiliation: Department of Germanic Languages and Literature
Location: 420 W 116th St
Phone: 212-854-1858
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/german/
E-Mail: deutsches-haus@columbia.edu
Deutsches Haus at Columbia University was the first foreign language house established at an American university in 1911. Initially dedicated to preserving Germany's unique literary tradition, Deutsches Haus today wishes to encourage academic, cultural, and social exchange between members of the Columbia community and the public with programs not only in German, but in Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, and Yiddish as well. Events include academic lectures, film series, conferences, plays, recitals, and informal gatherings. At Kaffeestunde (German coffee hour), Koffieuurtje (Dutch coffee hour), and Kave Sho (Yiddish Coffee Hour) students at all proficiency levels can practice their language skills. Deutsches Haus programs are free and open to the public and provide a cultural resource for the wider intellectual and professional community of New York City.
Digital Media Center (DMC)
Affiliation: School of the Arts
Location: 301 Dodge Hall
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arts/dmc/
E-Mail: dmc-info@columbia.edu
The Digital Media Center's resources serve the graduate students of School of the Arts, allowing students to develop new aesthetic directions in their work. The Center is an affirmation of Columbia University's dedication to providing a creative and intellectual center for artistic achievement using emerging technologies. The Digital Media Center provides training in 3-D modeling, graphic design, physical computing, motion graphics, programming, sound editing, video editing, video effects, web animation, and web design. Facilities and instruction are geared primarily to the needs of students in the Film and Visual Arts divisions.
Flute Choir
E-Mail: flutechoir@barnard.edu
Contact: Anna Bennett
Fritz Reiner Center for Contemporary Music, The
Affiliation: School of the Arts
Harriman Institute
Location: International Affairs Building, 12th Floor
Phone: 212-854-4623
Website: http://www.harriman.columbia.edu/
E-Mail: harriman@columbia.edu
The Harriman Institute is the oldest and largest academic center of its kind in the United States devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Russia and the other successor states of the former Soviet Union, East Central Europe, and the Balkans. The Institute's mandate is to advance scholarly knowledge and public understanding of the polities, economies, societies, and cultures of the Eurasian landmass extending from the Elbe to the Pacific, and from the Arctic to Afghanistan. In addition, the Institute promotes advanced research and publicly disseminates information, analysis, and opinion generated by its faculty, fellows, students, and other affiliated scholars. The Institute sponsors many conferences, special lectures, and other events for the University community, the private sector, media, policymakers, secondary school educators, alumni, and other constituencies.
Heyman Center for the Humanities
Affiliation: A&S
Location: East Campus, Morningside
Phone: 2128544270
Website: http://www.heymancenter.org
E-Mail: mrh2101@columbia.edu
Contact: Rebecca Hanger
The newly reconfigured Heyman Center is Columbia University's central site for the Humanities. It brings together the interests not only of the various departments in the Humanities but also the broad conceptual, methodological and value-laden issues that are of interest to the natural sciences and the professional schools of Law, Medicine, Journalism, Arts, and International Affairs. The Heyman Center presents several events on various themes in the Humanities throughout the Fall and Spring semesters each year, which are open not only to all at Columbia but to everyone in New York City and beyond. It also has eight post-doctoral fellows at any given time, each holding a two-year Mellon fellowship in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities. It plans to have various other levels of fellowship over the next few years for junior and senior faculty both at Columbia and from other universities, as well as some 'New York City Fellows' who are distinguished artists, writers, musicians, and journalists living in the city. Every week of each semester it has a lunch for a group of Columbia faculty fellows who present their work to each other for discussion. The Heyman Center also houses Columbia's Center for Comparative Literature and Society, the Human Rights Center, a group of Columbia's emeritus faculty known as the "Society of Senior Scholars," who teach in the Core Curriculum, and The Friends of the Heyman Center, all of which host seminars and colloquia of their own throughout the year. The Lionel Trilling Seminar (once a semester) and the Edward Said Memorial Lecture (once a year) are also based at the Heyman Center. Notices for these can be found in our Events section on our website.
Ho-Heup
Horace Mann Auditorium
Affiliation: Teachers College
Location: Horace Mann Hall
Horace Mann Theatre
Affiliation: Teachers College
Location: Horace Mann Hall
The Italian Academy
Location: Casa Italiana
Phone: 212-854-2306
Website: http://www.italianacademy.columbia.edu/
E-Mail: itacademy@columbia.edu
The Academy was created in 1991 on the basis of a charter signed by the President of the Republic of Italy and the President of Columbia University. It was conceived as a center for advanced research, particularly in areas relating to Italian culture, science and society. It was also intended to provide a locus for collaborative projects between senior Italian and American scholars, particularly those open to interdisciplinary research.
Jubilation!
Website: http://www.jube.org/
E-Mail: via WebPage
Formed in 1991, Jubilation is Columbia University's original Christian a cappella group.
Kingsmen
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/kingsmen/
E-Mail: kingsmen@columbia.edu
Founded in 1959, the King's Men of Columbia College is one of the most famous a cappella groups in the United States. Consisting of no more than 11 highly talented, highly motivated young men, their repertoire encompasses barbershop, gospel, traditional school songs, Christmas tunes, contemporary selections, and some witty songs that they wrote themselves.
Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program
Phone: 212-854-9862
Website: http://www.music.columbia.edu/%7Ececenter/JazzConcentration/
E-Mail: cjw5@columbia.edu
Contact: Chris Washburne
The Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program in the Music Department at Columbia University offers both undergraduate and graduate students jazz performance experience and private lessons. Listed below is information regarding those opportunities.
La Maison Française
Affiliation: Department of French and Romance Philology
Location: Buell Hall, 2nd Floor
Phone: 212-854-4482
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/french/maison/
E-Mail: maisondirector@columbia.edu
Contact: Priya Wadhera, Director
Founded in 1913, La Maison Française of Columbia University is the oldest French cultural center established on an American university campus. It is a meeting place for students, scholars, business leaders, policy-makers and all persons seeking a better understanding of the French-speaking world.
Metrotones
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/metrotones/
E-Mail: metrotones-acappella@columbia.edu
Middle East Institute
Location: International Affairs Building
Phone: 212-854-2584
Website: http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/regional/mei/
E-Mail: amb49@columbia.edu
Contact: Astrid Benedek- Assistant Director
The Middle East Institute of Columbia University, founded in 1954, has helped to set the national pace in developing an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the Middle East from the rise of Islam to the present, with a primary focus on the 19th and 20th centuries. Fostering an inter-regional and multi-disciplinary approach to the region, the Institute focuses on the Arab countries, Armenia, Iran, Israel, Turkey, Central Asia, and Muslim Diaspora communities.
Miller Theatre
Location: 116th & Broadway
Phone: 212-854-1488
Website: http://www.millertheatre.com
E-Mail: cp2234@columbia.edu
Miller Theatre, the performing arts center of Columbia University, is one of the country's leading innovators in performing arts presentation. Miller Theatre presents an annual season of international performers in music, dance, and opera, as well as public events that draw on the intellectual resources of Columbia University. Established in 1988 with funding from Brooke Astor, John Goelet, and the Kathryn Bache Miller Fund, Miller Theatre is a thriving urban arts presenter attracting over 30,000 audience members annually.
Museo
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/museo/
E-Mail: shirls.wong@gmail.com
Contact: Shirley Wong
MUSEO is Columbia University's undergraduate journal of contemporary art. Students are encouraged to submit essays, reviews, interviews, polemics, and portfolios this upcoming winter. This year we will be accepting a broader variety of articles that is no longer limited to the visual arts; students are strongly encouraged to submit work in anthropology, film/literary criticism, cultural studies, and other fields. If submission passes review of the editorial board, writers will work with editors on their submissions to improve or re-angle their work. MUSEO 9 will be published in the spring of 2006.
Music & Arts Library, Gabe M. Wiener
Affiliation: Columbia University Libraries
Location: 701 Dodge Hall
Phone: 212-854-4711
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/music/index.html
Located in Dodge Hall, the Gabe M. Wiener Music & Arts Library's onsite collection totals over 60,000 printed items, including monographs and serials on western and non-western music, as well as music scores; 20,000 sound and video recordings in multiple formats; CD-ROM indexes and multi-media titles; and several hundred microforms of scholarly interest.
Music at St. Paul's
Affiliation: Earl Hall Center
Location: St. Paul's Chapel
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/earl/music.html
St. Paul's Chapel, with its wonderful acoustics, is a landmark treasure of Columbia University. One of the finest architectural spaces on campus, it is an ideal place for diverse musical programs. Consistent with the Office of the University Chaplain's mission to help welcome Columbia's neighbors onto campus the Office of the University Chaplain has established the Music at St. Paul's program. Music at St. Paul's will increase the variety of performances of sacred music in St. Paul's Chapel and provide an on campus venue for stellar musicians from our New York City community to be heard in concert. Music at St. Paul's provides an opportunity to hear sacred music and music appropriate to the University Chapel outside of the context of a worship service in a setting for which much of the music was originally composed.
Music Department Ensembles
Website: http://www.music.columbia.edu/undergraduate/courses/ensembles.html
The Department of Music at Columbia is one of the oldest and most distinguished at any American university. Their teachers are among the best musicians in New York. The opportunities for music performance at Columbia and Barnard are rich and diverse. Instruction is given in all the principal keyboard and orchestral intsruments, in a variety of Renaissance and Baroque instruments, and voice. There is also a symphony orchestra, a large chorus, a smaller vocal ensemble, a jazz orchestra and a wide range of instrumental ensembles, that can be taken for credit. All of these are available to students of Barnard College, Collumbia College, the School of General Studies and the School of Engineering and Applied Science.
N.O.M.A.D.S. (New & Original Musicals Authored & Directed by Students)
Phone: 212 266-5525
E-Mail: bej2101@columbia.edu
Contact: Benjamin Jack
Nonsequitur
Website: http://www.nonseq.info
E-Mail: nonsequitur@columbia.edu
Founded by five a cappella enthusiasts, Nonsequitur represents the effort to better themselves and the Columbia community through song. They take pride in their varied repertoire and unique performing style.
Notes and Keys
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/notesandkeys/
E-Mail: notesandkeys@columbia.edu
Postcrypt Coffeehouse
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/postcrypt/coffeehouse/
E-Mail: postcrypt@columbia.edu
The Postcrypt Coffeehouse, established in 1964, features professional, amateur, and student performers every Friday and Saturday night throughout the academic year from 9:00pm to 12:00am admission is always free and open to all. As one of the country's longest running campus coffeehousees, Postcrypt is the home of diverse music - including and extending beyond blues, folk, jazz, rock, country and a capella.
Rabi-Warner Concert Series
Affiliation: Faculty House
E-Mail: jc2305@columbia.edu
Contact: Jennifer Cho
In 1985, Suzanne Fremon, a concert pianist and computer programmer at the Columbia computer center, with the help of Aaron Warner, president of the Advisory Board of the Faculty House, inaugurated a series of noon-hour concerts, for the Columbia and Morningside Heights community. In general, the series begins in mid-October and continues through mid-December, in the Fall; in the Spring, the series runs from mid-February through the end of April. There are roughly 20 concerts in the course of a school year. The series is named for I.I. Rabi, Nobel physics professor, who was an early supporter and Aaron Warner, director of the University Seminars, who was a major influence in the early days of establishing the series. Both are deceased. The concerts take place on Wednesdays, from 12:15 to 1 PM. Audience members are encouraged to have lunch, either beforehand or afterwards, at the 4th floor dining room, where a reservation is advisable, or at the 3rd floor cafeteria. The performers are professional musicians, usually from the New York area, who like to appear at the Faculty House, because the ambiance is friendly, the acoustics are good and the audience is welcoming. Many concert artists use the Faculty House setting as an opportunity to test upcoming programs they plan to perform in other venues around the City or on tour. Since the Faculty House sponsors the Rabi-Warner concerts, admission is free of charge to the audience.
Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Affiliation: Columbia University Libraries
Location: Butler Library, 6th Floor East
Phone: 212-854-5153
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/rbml/index.html
The Rare Book and Manuscript Library (RBML), the home of many of Columbia's greatest treasures, is housed on the sixth floor of Butler Library. The range of the library's holdings spans more than 4,000 years, from cylinder seals created in Mesopotamia to artists' books on which the ink is barely dry. In addition to printed and manuscript resources, the library contains cuneiform tablets, papyri, ostraca, astronomical and mathematical instruments, maps, works of art, photographs, posters, early printing presses and papermaking equipment, type specimens, sound and moving image recordings, theater set models, puppets, masks, ephemera and memorabilia.
Raw Elementz
Website: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/rawelementz/
E-Mail: rawelementz@columbia.edu
As a hip-hop dance troupe with a fusion focus, they incorporate various styles of dance including jazz and street-funk in their choreography. They also have a number of dancers who specialize in break dancing and popping. They perform at many campus functions, from culture shows to athletic events, and they have been invited to perform off-cmpus at other schools as well as community service-oriented actitities.
Roone Arledge Auditorium
Affiliation: Lerner Hall
Location: Alfred Lerner Hall
School of the Arts
Location: 305 Dodge Hall
Phone: 212-854-2875
Website: http://arts.columbia.edu/
School of the Arts- Student Affairs
Website: http://63.151.45.66/index.cfm?fuseaction=student_affairs.main
Whether you'r a continuing student or new to the School of the Arts, the Office of Student Affairs is designed to make your time in the M.F.A. program easier and enrich your School of the Arts experience as whole. Aside from providing information to students regarding registration, financial aid, housing, student activities, general orientation and graduation (among others), we also serve as a bridge to the rest of Columbia University,
Sounds of China
Website: http://www.soundsofchina.org
E-Mail: soc@columbia.edu
Sounds of China ia a Chinese cultural club and radio station broadcast every Saturday on 89.9FM from 10am-1pm. The first hours is Cantonese programming, followed by two hours of Mandarin programming. To call in to the station, please dial ext. 4-9920.
Southern Asian Institute
Location: International Affairs Building, 11th Floor
Phone: 212-854-3616
Website: http://www.sipa.columbia.edu/regional/sai/
E-Mail: southasia@columbia.edu
Contact: Vidya Dehejia- Director
The Southern Asian Institute coordinates the many activities at Columbia University that relate to Southern Asia -- mainly the countries of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives. Its conferences, seminars, exhibits, films, and lecture series bring together faculty and students with widely varying interests and backgrounds. It works with many South Asia groups on campus and off. Because of its location in New York City, the Institute has lively ties with persons serving in the United Nations, the diplomatic community, and many international agencies. It is also in the midst of the largest South Asian ethnic community in North America, with all its cultural richness.
Student Development & Activities
Website: http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/sda/
Student Development and Activities (SDA) is committed to helping students enhance their leadership skills and explore the co-curricular opportunities available at Columbia. SDA forges a sense of community by providing opportinities for social interaction and student participation in community life and governance. Whether you are looking for advice in running your organization, planning an event, organizing your financial records, starting a group, or if you just want to brainstorm, the SDA staff is here to support you.
Uptown Vocal
Website: http://www.uptownvocal.com
E-Mail: uptownvocal@columbia.edu
Just minutes away from the A train, Columbia University's jazz/pop co-ed a cappella group, Uptown Vocal, enters its second decade of bringing aural amusement to New York City & the rest of the world. UV is made up of unusually attractive members of the Columbia community with love for the a cappella spirit, and accepts members from any part of the Columbia community, including graduate students.
WBAR 87.9 FM
Website: http://wbar.org/
E-Mail: wbar@columbia.edu
WBAR is an independent, free-form, non-commercial, non-profit radio station broadcasting from the Barnard College campus in New York City. All of our programming is generated entirely by on-campus DJ's, with a new show spinning every 2 hours. Our staff is a fine bunch of Barnard and Columbia students, and every one of us is just as aesthetically pleasing as we are qualified for the job. WBAR's mission is to provide an outlet for the music that you won't find on mainstream stations, so we don't stop at broadcasting. We also put on some of the best shows in New York City.
WKCR 89.9 FM
Website: http://www.wkcr.org
E-Mail: board@wkcr.org
Contact: Matt Herman
WKCR is Columbia's non-commercial, student-run radio station broadcasting throughout the New York Metro area at 89.9 FM and streaming around the world at wkcr.org. Since its inception in 1941, WKCR has stood strong against the tide of commerce in defense of art. As a public radio station free from commercial and political pressures, WKCR gives top priority to meaningful art; Louis Armstrong, J.S. Bach, Bessie Smith, and many other geniuses are broadcast staples that grace WKCR's airwaves daily. WKCR applies to this artistic spectrum the stated goals of Columbia University: education and research. The mission of education is twofold, offering listeners informed programming with historical emphasis while training undergraduates in understanding the art forms as well as the style and science of presenting them on radio.
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