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PROGRAM FOR CHICAGO MEETING

MIDWEST CHAPTER

AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY

20-21 September 2003

SATURDAY
8:30AM-9:00 Registration, Coffee, and Conversation

9:00AM-Noon
GREAT COMPOSERS, UNUSUAL SITUATIONS
Edward Kottick, session chair

• “Death in Vienna”: Ken Russell’s Mahler--Eftychia Papanikolaou, Miami University of Ohio
• Perspectives of Childhood: Misinterpretations of Innocence in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony--Laura Neff, University of Illinois
• “A Few Flimsy Enharmonic Devices,” or What Stravinsky Learned from Rimsky--John Schuster-Craig, Grand Valley State University

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00-Noon

• Beethoven’s Dilemma: Orchestral Personnel, Politics, and the Premiere of the Ninth Symphony--Theodore Albrecht, Kent State University
• Battling Beethoven: A Struggle for Cultural Authority in fin-de-siècle Vienna--Anna Celenza, Michigan State University

Noon-1:30 Lunch Break

1:30PM-3:00
AN AFTERNOON OF AMERICAN MUSIC
Karin Pendle, session chair

• Secret Rooms, Borrowed Pianos, and Les plus grands musiciens du moment: Gaby Casadesus, Lucie Delécluse, and Franco-American Musical Exchange during the Second World War--Kendra Preston Leonard, Atomic Dog Publishing (Cincinnati)
• Two Orchestrations of Gershwin’s Concerto in F--Timothy Freeze, University of Michigan
• Stealing Fire: Reclaiming Womanhood in Tori Amos’s Boys for Pele--Bethany Jo Smith, University of Cincinnati

3:00 Coffee break

3:15PM-4:45
AARON COPLAND, AMERICAN COMPOSER: A PANEL
Karin Pendle, session chair

Listening to the Shadows: The Art Worlds of Aaron Copland

• Aaron Copland and the Aesthetics of Hollywood--Mark Clague, University of Michigan
• ’Tis the Gift to be Simple?: The Second Hurricane and Copland’s First Steps toward American Opera
  Stephanie Heriger, University of Michigan
• The Birds and the Squirrels: Finding David Diamond in Copland’s Dickinson Songs--Colin Roust, University of Michigan
  

4:45PM–5:30
Business Meeting

• James Briscoe, AMS Midwest President
• Pamela Whitcomb, AMS Midwest Treasurer
• Richard L. Bowen, AMS Midwest Secretary

SUNDAY
9:30AM–11:00

NOT YOUR GRANDMOTHER’S EARLY MUSIC TOPICS
Matthew Steel, session chair

• The Intersection of Historical Theory and Analysis: John Dowland’s Lutesongs and the Four Airs--Jeffrey Meyer, Concordia College (Moorhead, Minn.)
• Zarlino and Castiglione: On Establishing a Composer's Reputation--David Kidger, Oakland University (Rochester, Mich.)
• Illustrating the Music of the Mass: A Case Study--Elizabeth C. Teviotdale, Western Michigan University

11:00 Coffee Break

11:15–12:15
ASPECTS OF OPERA AND DRAMA
Matthew Steel, session chair

• One New German School, Two Takes on the Bard: A Comparison of Berlioz and Liszt’s Compositional Approach in Two Shakespearean Programmatic Compositions--Michelle Meinhart-Davidson, University of Cincinnati
• Maternity Benefits and Pension Planning in the Vienna Court Opera: The Case of Irene Tomeoni (1763-1830)--Carol Padgham Albrecht, University of Idaho

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