Basketball Reunion
If you can be near campus at 7 p.m. on Friday, March 4, come join the Marching Band and us as we watch the men’s basketball team (currently a happy 9-3 in Ivy League play) take on Brown. In fact, if you played in any Columbia musical ensemble – Marching Band, Concert Band, Wind Ensemble or Jazz Band – you’re invited to bring an instrument, sit in the stands, and play if you dare. Buy tickets here or at the door. Join Bandies past and present at a post-game get-together, with assorted hijinks, immediately following the game.
Wind Ensemble at Carnegie Hall
Planning to attend the Wind Ensemble’s return to Carnegie Hall at 8 p.m. on Saturday, March 12? Tickets for the concert start at $20, but a 15% discount awaits if you enter the promo code FAM23271 when you buy seats at the Carnegie website here. Or phone the box office at 212-247-7800. The program, under conductor Jason Noble, will feature recent works by emerging composers and a guest shot by Johan de Meij, who will conduct his own 2014 composition, Downtown Divertimento. The group will share billing with the National Festival Chorus and Texas A&M University Century Singers.
Send us your tapes!
Our call for alumni to dig out old recordings of the Band is bearing fruit: Jazz Band alums have unearthed some more vintage cassettes. As soon as we have them digitized, we’ll list them in the Audio Vault on our website and you can go back a few decades and hear them yourself. We’re always looking for vintage audio and video of any Columbia Band performance. Check your closet!
Radio (and Video) Stars
For Columbia football fans, the highlight of the 2015 season – other than the end of the team’s losing streak – may have been the 11-part podcast “The Season” in which New York radio station WNYC followed the Lions’ fortunes throughout new coach Al Bagnoli’s first year. The Marching Band figures heavily in Episode 10, and WNYC produced a short video extra on the Band. Check ’em out.
CUBAA on Facebook
Check out a new way to stay connected with your fellow band alumni and keep up with all the latest news: we’re on Facebook! Join the CUBAA group on Facebook here.
