Fall 2001 Program
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Final Program
Midwest AMS
29-30 September 2001
National-Louis University, Chicago

Saturday, 9:30 - noon: Early Music: Reading between the Lines
Respondent: James Borders (University of Michigan)
Chair: Roberta Lindsey (Indiana University at Indianapolis)

• Jeffrey Wasson (Barat College), "Pre-history of the Gregorian Gradual, Part One: Liturgical Order, Music, and the Number of Bible Readings in the Ancient, Medieval and Modern Mass"
• Hans Tischler (Indiana University), "On Transcribing Two-part Conductus"
• Vivian Ramalingam (Roseville, Minn.), "Occasional Motets from Padua, Tournai, and Rome, and the Iconography of Joseph"
• Dawn De Rycke (University of Chicago), "A Gift of Song: Perisone Cambio's Four-voice Madrigals and the Hidden Aesthetics of Solo Performance"

Saturday, 1:30 - 5:00: Opera in the 19th century
Co-chairs: Elinor Olin (National-Louis University) and Roberta Lindsey

• Christina Fuhrmann (Ashland University), "'Sechse treffen, sieben Šffen': Seven Versions of Der Freischutz in London, 1824"
• Naomi Andre (University of Michigan), "Meyerbeer and Balzac: Listening to the Castrato in the Early Nineteenth Century"
• Frank E. Kirby (Lake Forest College), "Wagner and the Pastoral"
• Inna Naroditskaya (Northwestern University), "Evaporating Heroines: Women and Nationalism in Russian Fairy Tale Opera"
• Billee Bonse (Columbus, Ohio), "Musorgsky's Boris Godunov as Inversion of the Tragic Rise and Fall"

Sunday, 9:30 - noon: Nationalism and Modernism
Chair: Elinor Olin

• Timothy Flynn (Lansing, MI), "A Glimpse at the Letters of Camille Saint-Saens in the Northwestern University Music Library"
• Olga Haldey (Ohio State University), "Savva Mamontov, the Moscow Private Opera, and the Transition from Realism to Modernism on the Russian Operatic Stage"
• Sarah Hamilton (Olathe, KS), "Mario de Andrade, Music and Modernism in Brazil, 1920-1945"
• Alejandro Madrid (Columbus, OH), "Aspects of Ideology and Identity in the Avant-Garde Music of Carlos Chavez"

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