You've eaten your fill from three, count them — three feeding opportunities this morning. Now, put a cap on this glorious day with four, yes, four campus concerts. There's something for every cynic.

For those who've had enough of the sun or music written after 1950, there's the air-conditioned Senior Choice Concert in Roone, put on by the CU Wind Ensemble at 2:00 PM.

On the sun-scorched steps, there's the acoustic side of Bacchanal's bagel shebang. Neal Goldberg of Miss Distress will be playing.

Postcrypt has crawled out of the catacombs into the bright light. They'll be in front of EC until 6:00 PM tonight with new acts every half hour, should you tire of a particular strum-and-moan ensemble. Sweetheart Anthony Da Costa will be wrapping things up at 5:10.

After you grab a quick dinner, head on over to Philosophy Hall for the Music Performance Program's end of semester concert. Starting at 8:00 PM, it features undergraduate ensembles playing works by Beethoven, Dvorak, and other lesser-known composers. No worries if you can't make it — the second part of the concert will be Monday night at the same time.

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Kurt Hinterbichler, a grad student in the Columbia physics department, joined 95 other musicians from around the world to play in a multimedia concert sponsored by YouTube. About 3,000 musicians submitted audition videos to the site, and YouTube patrons, with their refined taste, selected the winners from the top 200 submissions. Given the musicians, hailing everywhere from South Korea to Reno, had only two days to practice together, the show seems to have gone pretty well.

Hinterbichler, who has a website displaying his scribbles (which seem to be fodder for heated debate), his musical compositions and his theory of the universe, filmed an introductory video played during the concert. He, as did the Prime Minister of South Korea, also starred in second video to promote the event. According to the concert's website, there is going to be a documentary about the YouTube orchestra, and since Hinterbichler appears in the trailer, he will probably appear in the movie as well.

Kudos to Hunterichler, who joins the pantheon of kick-ass Columbia grad students.

-DJB

Before you trudge up the stairs to Ferris, consider a free alternative: Music on the Ramps returns this week with a triumphant mix of sandwiches and, uh, well, some really catchy music. There's also macaroni salad and free drinks. Hurry!

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All's a-twitter for Bacchanal next week and, on an only-vaguely-related note, Columbia musicians (or Columbia-hopeful musicians) are making waves all over the City.

First up: Anthony Da Costa, our charming folksinger prospy is returning tonight to the tiny exposed-brick room that loves him. The Postcrypt coffeehouse, that is. Da Costa's website recommends "coming early and getting a good seat cause they go pretty fast!" Adorable exclamation point, no? Aw. In addition, Da Costa writes that "The Postcrypt," as he calls it, is "one of my favorite places to play, period...totally chill, unplugged, great atmosphere, intimate concert!" He's supposed to start at 10:30, but you heard the man: go early.

Second on the Bwog musical beat, Reni Lane, CC '10 (you may have heard her on The L-Word), recently popped up in fashiony-type blog Refinery 29. Lane attended the Paper Magazine Beautiful People Party last Thursday, and a blogger hung out with her, then mentioned it on those wonderful things, the internets. Fantastic!

Satisfy your Anglophilia tonight at 6:00, when the Westminster Boys’ Choir will be performing in St. Paul’s Chapel. Westminster Abbey has been training boys in addition to its adult choir for at least six centuries, but this is the first United States tour for the little lads. Their normal routine at home in England includes singing Evensong six times a week and playing cricket, which is basically living the dream.

They know their stuff, too – they’ve sung for both Queen Elizabeth II and Pope John Paul II. As Her Majesty no doubt said after seeing the choir perform, blimey. Drop in, and brag to your Music Hum professor about it tomorrow.

Photo via the Sydney Morning Herald

Photo via TheTallisScholars.co.uk

Bwog's resident Hildegard fanboy Peter Thompson spent his Thursday evening at the final concert of the Miller Theatre's Early Music series and sent back this dispatch, lovingly illuminated, on vellum.

The Miller Theatre concluded its Early Music series on Thursday, April 2 with “Music for Double Choir” at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin on 46th St. The program was presented by the UK-based Tallis Scholars, one of the world’s most prestigious professional choral groups. The ensemble of 10, led by renowned conductor Peter Phillips, sang music from the 16th and 17th centuries.

Late-breaking news for music fans: Talib Kweli will be part of this year's Bacchanal. A tipster noted earlier today that his website listed a show at Columbia on April 18th, and Bacchanal board members confirmed this evening that the MC will be one of the artists. No word was forthcoming, though, on who the other artist or artists might be.

UPDATE (1:20 AM): Spectacle reports that the other half of the bill is Morningside's own Vampire Weekend. However, Bacchanal organizers refused to confirm the story, telling Bwog that "Spec posted without receiving confirmation from the Bacchanal Concert Committee, which could pose problems for security and clauses in the contract."

UPDATE (1:35 AM): According to a Bacchanal representative, the Vampire Weekend announcement was only supposed to occur two weeks prior to the event, as there are security concerns about non-students flooding the campus. Bacchanal is, of course, contractually obligated to respect that two-week maximum, which is why Bacchanal refused to confirm to the Spectator.

UPDATE (12:10 PM): The post has been taken down, but the headline still shows up on Spec's homepage.

(N.B.: Bwog's received permission from Bacchanal to report this information.)

- JCD, KER & JNW

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Starting in about fifteen minutes in Roone Auditorium is the Columbia Festival of Winds. It sounds like a Zelda game, but it's arguably more fun than that. Seven ensembles, including the Wycliffe Gordon Quartet, will be performing until 9:30 tonight.

Tickets are $15, but that comes out to a mere $1.58 per hour. And all that benefits music education programs in New York City.

The famed quartet will be making their appearance around 8:00 PM, but there'll be plenty of great music (and a few Powerpoints, we daresay) until then.

Columbia's premier electrofunk group is taking a break from intramural collaborations and filling the Bowery Ballroom to provide a public service announcement to junior hipsters on the popular Nickelodeon show Yo Gabba Gabba! The topic? Personal hygiene, of course.

Stereogum has a video of the band performing their catchy anthem, "Everybody Wash Your Hands (Lather Up)" in a giant sink while Mayan pyramids float in the background and blobby creatures dance for joy. Oh, childhood.

Here's a reason (the only reason?) to wish you'd committed your four years to the Bronx instead of Morningside Heights: a TOP SECRET U2 concert! The Irish quartet will be gracing Letterman for the first week of March, and Fordham indie radio station the Alternate Side strongly suspects that a Friday morning show (that's the 6th of March) at the Jesuit university is also in the cards.

"Professors have reportedly been told by administrators to cancel morning classes 'for security reasons,'" announces the Alternate Side's blog. Lions, feel free to take this opportunity to mock Fordham's regular Friday classes, but don't even think of making the convoluted trip to try to see Bono & company--without a "Fordham ID in your name," apparently you've next to no chance of even being allowed on campus that Friday, let alone near the concert.

If this segregation makes you blue, take heart and tell yourself that it's possible that our favorite vampires will decide not to let Rams into their show if/when they come back on campus again. Maybe.

-Photo from Ariel Moger

For the final installment of this week's Veritas Forum,whose symbol looks bizarrely similar to the Mac Wireless sign, the group hosted a screening of Justin Dillon's film Call and Response and brought Matisyahu, the greatest Jewish reggae singer of all time, for a performance that can only be described as "kick-ass."

Call and Response, an anti-slavery documentary/concert film, mixed its message about eradicating modern slavery with great performances, including one from Talib Kweli. Dillon spoke for a few minutes after the screening, urging the audience to join in his cause.

The night really heated up, though, when Matisyahu took the stage. The concept of a Hasidic reggae star may seem strange, but the man is no one-hit wonder, especially with his beat-boxing. For his roughly hour-long set, Matis brought down the house, improvising almost his entire performance. During his dazzling beat-boxing, he would flick his finger through the air, conducting his otherworldly beats for himself. His set was interrupted when a microphone shorted out, but he won over the audience despite the technical glitch, and they ended the night on their feet, bowled over by the performance.

- DJB

Compiling the best of the meta lists since 2006.

Monday
Paul Muldoon: The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet will read selections of his poetry, followed by an interview. 501 Schermerhorn @ 8:00 PM.

Tuesday
Adam Kirsch [pdf]: The senior editor of The New Republic will discuss the lives of Allen Ginsberg and Lionel Trilling. 501 Schermerhorn @ 8:00 PM.

Wednesday
Greenhouse Gases: They're bad, yes, but how do we reduce emissions? A focus group and panel. David Aud. (CEPSR) @ 5:00 PM.

Thursday
Traditional Japanese Music: Traditional instruments along with help from the CU Gagaku Instrumental Ensemble. Followed by a reception. Low Rotunda @ 6:00 PM.

Mere minutes ago, Bwog received photographic evidence that widely-acclaimed cover artist (oh, and Carman public safety officer-in-chief) Sir Mike brought down the house at Earl Jam tonight.

Sir Mike, informally known as Michael Layne, is widely perceived among first-years to be the only friendly adult on campus. Tip for freshmen: he has been known to sell you his self-made CD of cover songs if you stay on his good side for long enough, which you will most definitely "enjoy" listening to.

Bigger photo after the jump.

If your lunch plans depress you or stress you out, get out of John Jay and 212 and head to the Graduate Student Lounge in Philosophy for a change of pace � excellent classical music for free!

The renowned Chiara Quartet will perform the �Haydn� string quartets by Mozart for the last time this year from 12:30-1:30. Today marks the end of a series of lunchtime performances of the �Haydn� quartets � a set of pieces Mozart dedicated to friend and fellow composer Joseph Haydn. Just in case you were confused.

Check out the Lunchtime Concerts event page for info on the next lunchtime concert series, featuring the Pacifica Quartet playing Mendelssohn.

A tipster/fan reminds us that campus artist Reni Lane CC '10 has not only signed with major label Custard/Universal Motown (joining James Blunt, among others), but also will have her song "Place for Us" on tonight's episode of Showtime's "The L Word." You can hear the song right now on her Myspace page. Sure, Showtime isn't on Columbia's cable system, but Bwog has no doubt our readers know how to get their hands on TV shows.

"Place for Us" is also the first song from her first major label album, which will be released this spring. And remember, she made Frontiers of Science catchy.