Music at Columbia: The First 100 Years

Music Performance: Recent Years > Chapel Music

Turner Console, Aeolian-Skinner Organ, St. Paul’s Chapel

Photograph by Eileen Barroso, 1997

Columbia University Archives, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

 

The Chapel Music Program has continued a long tradition of active support for music performance, sponsoring not only concerts by campus groups, but the Thursday Noon Series of Organ Recitals and special events like the yearly series, Perspectives in Music and Art. Presentations devoted to the relationship between music and the visual arts have included Symbolists and Symbolism; The Prairie and the Search for an American Style; Charles Tomlinson Griffes: An American Original; Gestures of Love: From Michelangelo to Monteverdi; and The world of Hector Villa-Lobos. Scheduled for the Spring of 1998 was An American Legacy: Music of Ives, Barber, Bernstein, Danielpour.

The Chapel’s historic Aeolian Skinner organ received a new four-manual console, constructed by Robert M. Turner in the style of the original, in the summer of 1997. The project was initiated and guided by University Organist and director of Chapel Music and Associate in Music Performance George B. Stauffer (Ph.D. ’78), in consultation with the organ’s curator, John B. Randolph. A series of inaugural solo and ensemble performances highlighted the Chapel Music Program’s 1997-1998 season.

The Barnard-Columbia Chorus, St. Paul’s Chapel

Photograph by Joe Pineiro, December, 1994

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The Barnard-Columbia Chorus, under the direction of Gail Archer, presenting its annual Candlelight Concert with orchestra at St. Paul’s Chapel, in 1994.

 

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