In many ways, the first of the Monday night series of workshop/concerts at The Stone (event number 4), featuring the Stone Improvisers Orchestra (or Stone Workshop Orchestra), was a lot like event number 1:  same room, Karl conducting, many of the same players (Bob Selcoe, Jorge Sylvester, Sylvain Leroux, Catherine Sikora, Jeremy Carlstedt, one of [...]

Everything about the facade of the Miller Theater and the surrounding Columbia University campus is stately and imposes an air of high culture and deep learning. So, when they display a poster announcing a concert within, the poster’s design is likely to convey a message that what is going to take place befits the milieu. [...]

The Symposium. What’s a symposium? “In ancient Greece, the symposium was a drinking party (from Greek [words]. . . ‘to drink together’)” (Wikipedia). Isn’t that interesting? CMS Day at Columbia wasn’t a drinking party, but there were many joyful components that are not typical of most meetings held in major universities. For many of the [...]

Arts & Entertainment: Preserving an Upstate Jazz Incubator Larry Blumenfeld, Wall Street Journal, April 14, 2011, pg. A.26 Nice, brief article by Larry Blumenfeld. He mentions the events this weekend and the archiving project in connection with Columbia.