Columbia University Department of Music

The McIntosh County Shouters
In Concert

Friday, April 3rd, 2026 7:30pm
Miller Theatre
2960 Broadway at West 116th Street
New York, NY 10027

The McIntosh County Shouters are the principal exponents—and one of the last active practitioners—of the ring shout, one of the oldest African American performance traditions surviving in America.

https://music.columbia.edu/events/mcintosh-county-shouters-concert

Ring Shout:

Practice, Resilience, and Transmission in Place

A Symposium

This one-day symposium approaches ring shout as living practice and as method, a way of thinking through tradition, mediation, and meaning in Black music without separating sound from the social worlds that sustain it.

https://music.columbia.edu/events/ring-shout-practice-resilience-and-transmission-place

Tomorrow is ! We ask you — our alumni and friends — to consider making a gift to the Department of Music at givingday.columbia.edu to help support our students' musical educations, studies, and performances. Thank you for your support!

Dr. Knar Abrahamyan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Music, will be featured in a New Humanities Faculty Salon at the Heyman Center for the Humanities on November 19th at 5:30 PM. Please register. https://ow.ly/JCx150TS3N3

In case you missed it: Dr. Walter Frisch published a new book, "Harold Arlen and His Songs." Harold Arlen was a composer and songwriter of the 20th century who was responsible for many American Songbook standards! https://ow.ly/S6Qh50T37qm

The Collegium Musicum spring concert is coming up on Friday April 26th, 2024 at 7 PM in St. Paul's Chapel on campus. Come listen to works by Palestrina and Victoria!

This concert is free and open to the public.

The Columbia University Orchestra will be performing at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center on April 19th! $5 general admission tickets or free with a Columbia ID.

Featuring music by Adams, Dutilleux and Bartók.

https://music.columbia.edu/events/columbia-university-orchestra-alice-tully-hall-0

The Department of Music announces the availability of two Core Lecturer positions in Music Humanities. Applicants must have completed all requirements, including deposit, for the Ph.D. or D.M.A degree from Columbia’s Department of Music between 07/01/21 - 06/30/24.

Read more at https://ow.ly/m65C50R4WYP

Open Position: Core Lecturer in the Music Humanities The Department of Music announces the availability of two Core Lecturer positions in Music Humanities. Applicants must have completed all requirements, including deposit, for the Ph.D. or D.M.A degree from Columbia’s Department of Music between 07/01/21 - 06/30/24.

Upcoming event!

Registration begins today for The Making of "Stop Making Sense," organized by the School of the Arts. Enjoy a screening of Jonathan Demme’s newly restored Talking Heads concert film followed by a conversation about the making of the film.

Friday, Feb. 2, 6:30 PM

The Making of “Stop Making Sense” — Lenfest Center for the Arts A screening of Jonathan Demme’s newly restored Talking Heads concert film, Stop Making Sense, followed by a conversation about the making of the film with its distributor Ira Deutchman, visual consultant Sandy McLeod, Yale University Professor Daphne A. Brooks, and writer and critic Adam Reid Sext...

New course announcement!

FILM GU 4048 - Music, Sound, and Image Theory

Taught by Jane Gaines (Film) and Benjamin Steege (Music).

Some of the most exciting theoretical moving image work in recent years has centered on the problem of the acoustic sign in cinema and especially around the relation between image track and sound “track.”

To read more, visit https://music.columbia.edu/news/2024-spring-course-music-sound-and-image-theory