Columbia Department of Music Fall 2016 Newsletter
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Newsletter Department of Music Fall 2016 From the Chair Photo by Ad Meskens Ad by Photo s 2016 draws to an end, the campus exudes exhaustion and exhil- iration. The undergraduate major and performance program have A grown, and our classrooms are scheduled every minute of the day and night, showing the large number of classes we offer and the even larger number of Columbia students involved in the study and performance of music. We have long since run out of space in Dodge Hall, and two intrepid undergraduates, Timothy Diovanni and Cindy Liu, have circulated a petition to increase campus spaces for musical perfor- mance, invoking our peer institutions’ superior facilities. We need more places in which to highlight the inspiring dedication and energy Susan Boynton at the Cloisters with two of her students from the Summer 2015 of our undergraduates and graduate students. In this 120th year of our Art and Music Humanities Program in Paris, Christy Chung and Ben Libman Department, we are aware of our increasing excellence but still striving to do even better. Please send me your news. You can follow the Department on Facebook and Twitter, and see your alumni profile on our website. Yours sincerely, Susan Boynton Department Chair Email: [email protected] Twitter: @departmentchair Music.Columbia.edu Facebook.com/ColumbiaUniversityMusic Twitter.com/Columbia_Music (@Columbia_Music) 2 New Faculty enjoyed in the Indian state of West Bengal. Ë New Mellon His research has been supported by fellow- Lucie Vágnerová Visiting Assistant Postdoctoral Fellows ships from the American Institute of Indian defended her Professor, Weatherhead Studies, the South Asia Institute at the East Asian Institute Elise Bonner is dissertation in University of Texas at Austin, and the Yale completing her Historical Musicol- Miki Kaneda Institute of Sacred Music, where he was a Ph.D. in musicol- ogy in 2016 and (Assistant Professor, Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer (2015–16). ogy at Princeton was appointed a Boston University) He is also an active performer in a range of University and will Core Lecturer in will be Visiting styles and instruments from South Asia, with join the Department Music Humanities. Assistant Professor an emphasis on the Bengali khol. as a postdoctoral She presented “Black Box, White Box: at the Weatherhead fellow in January. Electronics Assembly and the Factory East Asian Institute Her research focuses on eighteenth-century New Core Lecturers Museum” at Sound Limits: Music and its in 2017. As a music, with an emphasis on music and in Music Humanities Borders—the Yale Graduate Music Sympo- scholar and teacher, Kaneda aims to increase aesthetics in the Russian Enlightenment and sium in March, and defended her disserta- meaningful conversations between research- Alexander K. Rothe the political and intellectual history of opera tion “Sirens/Cyborgs: Sound Technologies ers and practitioners of sonic and visual arts (Ph.D., Historical at the court of Catherine the Great. Bonner’s and the Musical Body” in May. She pre- in order to address the relationship between Musicology, 2015) research has been supported by fellowships sented the paper “Blackness, Telepresence, politics, culture, and the arts in ways that was appointed a and grants from the American Council of and the Carceral State” for AMS Vancouver reach beyond institutional boundaries. Core Lecturer in Learned Societies, the Mellon Foundation, in November, and has written a review of Trained in musicology and ethnomusicology, 2016. He spoke on the Council on Library and Information Nina Eidsheim’s Sensing Sound: Singing and her research interests and publication topics “Ruth Berghaus’s Resources, and the American Musicological Listening as Vibrational Practice (2015) for include the transnational flows of experimen- Vision of Wagner in Society. She has an essay on Russian the special issue of Current Musicology. tal music, graphic scores, art and the everyday, the Frankfurt Ring Cycle” at the AMS-GNY theatrical politics and public opera forthcom- and media ecologies in postwar Japan. Her Winter 2016 chapter meeting. On December ing in Eighteenth-Century Music in Context. current book project, The Unexpected 4, he will give a talk on “Revisiting Chéreau’s Collectives: Intermedia Art in Postwar Japan, is Ë Bayreuth Centennial Ring Cycle Forty Years an ethnographic and historical study that Eben Graves has a Later” at the Wagner Society of New York. uses intermedia (a kind of multimedia art) as Ph.D. in ethnomu- Alexander will present on “Visions of a vehicle to examine collaborative artistic and sicology from the Wagner and Memories of May 1968 in the social processes in postwar Japan. Kaneda University of Texas Bayreuth Centennial Ring Cycle” at the will teach two courses in the Department of at Austin (2014). Modern Language Association Annual Music: Sound and Image in Modern East Using ethnographic Conference in Philadelphia in January 2017. Asian Music (spring 2017) and Transpacific and historical Musicology (fall 2017). methods, his current book project studies intersections between musical time and the temporal dimensions of devotional religion, cultural nationalism, and economic exchange in padavali kirtan, a genre of Hindu devotional song and storytelling widely performed and 3 Faculty Highlights Gail Archer (Barnard) played fifteen concerts Zosha Di Castri’s piece Near Mute Force was and the French Institute/Alliance Française. ponist?” held in Leipzig, Germany on the in Europe in summer 2016 in the Czech premièred in Toronto in April as part of vio- Her 2015 article “Opéra-comique on the Eve 100th anniversary of the composer’s death. Republic, the Ukraine, Russia, Denmark, list Steven Dann’s concert “Dannthology.” Di of Revolution: Dalayrac’s Sargines and the His 2015 article “Arlen’s Tapeworms: The Germany and Italy. She also played at the Castri won the 2016 Yvar Mikhashoff Trust Development of ‘Heroic’ Comedy” won the Tunes That Got Away” in The Musical Quar- Cathedral of Barcelona and in the Odessa Competition, with pianist Julia Den Boer. In 2016 Alfred Einstein award from the Ameri- terly won the inaugural Roland Jackson Award Music Festival. In the United States, high- June, Patina, commissioned by Jenny Koh, can Musicological Society. of the American Musicological Society. lights include Walla Walla University, Christ was performed by the violinist in her concert Ë Ë Church at Dartmouth College, St. Augus- Shared Madness at National Sawdust. Di Joe Dubiel gave one of the Ron Alexander Brad Garton collaborated with Susan tine Cathedral, Kalamazoo, MI, the Roman Castri’s Lineage had its Japanese première at Memorial Lectures in Musicology at Boynton on the application of music visu- Catholic Cathedral of Denver, CO, and an Suntory Hall and her String Quartet No. 1 Stanford University, speaking on “Our alization tools in Music Humanities with a organ series honoring the life and work of was premièred as the Canadian Commission Kind of Empiricism.” Hybrid Learning grant from the Provost of Max Reger presented in New York City at Round of the Banff International String Columbia University. four churches in New York. Quartet Competition. Di Castri was awarded Ë Ë Ë a commission by the Serge Koussevitzky Kevin Fellezs was awarded a Lenfest Faculty Music Foundation. Di Castri’s music will Development Grant. He published “Shadows Giuseppe Gerbino taught Music Humanities Susan Boynton received a 2016 Lenfest be featured in a Miller Theater Composer and Light: Gender, Race, and the Ma(s)king at Reid Hall in Paris in fall 2016. While in Distinguished Faculty Award and won a Portrait concert in December. of ‘Joni Mitchell’” in The Cambridge Com- Europe, he was invited to present his research three-year grant from the Partner University panion to the Singer-Songwriter and “Vora- on music, mind, and soul in the Renaissance Fund (FACE Foundation) with co-investiga- Ë cious Souls: Race and Place in the Formation at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences tor Frédéric Billiet of Paris IV-Sorbonne Alessandra Ciucci presented “Performing of the San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Scene,” Sociales and at the University of Cambridge. University for the digital humanities project Rurality: Music and Migration across the in Global Metal Music and Culture: Current “FAB- Musiconis: French-American Bridge Mediterranean (Morocco-Italy)” at the Ë Directions in Metal Studies. for Medieval Musical Iconography.” Columbia University Seminar on Arabic Georg Friedrich Haas’ opera Morgen und Boynton’s volume Resounding Images: Studies and was the chair and session orga- Ë Abend was performed at the Deutsche Oper Medieval Intersections of Art, Music, and nizer of the panel “Sonic Journeys, Spiritual In April 2016, Aaron Fox discussed the Cen- Berlin; his opera KOMA, at the SWR- Sound, edited with Diane J. Reilly (Brepols, Boundaries, and Musical Circulation in the ter for Ethnomusicology’s indigenous music Festspiele Schwetzingen (Germany), was 2015), won the 2016 Ruth A. Solie Award Maghreb,” at the Annual Meeting of the repatriation projects for BBC Radio 3’s Sun- named the best first performance of the year of the American Musicological Society. In Society for Ethnomusicology. day Feature, “Taking It All Back Home.” at the “Kritikerumfrage” in Opernwelt. Haas the summer of 2016 Boynton taught in the Ë Ë was guest composer and lecturer at the summer program in Paris combining Art Atlantic Center for the Arts, Guest Professor Julia Doe conducted research at the Biblio- Walter Frisch taught Music Humanities to and Music Humanities. at the Salzburger Sommerakademie, and thèque-Musée de l’Opéra in Paris as a Hettle- Columbia undergraduates at the Reid Hall composer in residence at the AFEKT festival Ë man Summer Fellow, and gave a colloquium program in Paris during Spring 2016. He in Tallinn. He will be composer in residence Deborah Bradley-Kramer toured Poland lecture at Case Western Reserve University also delivered a lecture at Reid Hall’s Colum- for the Huddersfield Contemporary Music with SPEAKmusic in March.