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PROGRAM FOR CHICAGO MEETING

MIDWEST CHAPTER

AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY

2-3 October 2004

Saturday, 8:30AM–9:00 Registration, Coffee, and Conversation

Saturday, 9:30–12:00PM  German Opera
Chair: Matthew Balensuela, DePauw University

1. Ignaz Holzbauer and the Origins of German Opera in Vienna-- Lawrence Bennett, Wabash College
2. Prescribing a National Opera: Spohr's Jessonda and the "Appeal to German Composers"--Kevin R. Burke, University of Cincinnati
3. Greek Tragedy as German Drama: From Mendelssohn to Wagner--Jason Geary, University of Michigan
4. Nazi Operas? Werner Egk's Zaubergeige and Peer Gynt--Joanna Cobb Biermann, Indiana University

Saturday, 2:00–3:00  Leonard Bernstein
Chair: Mary Natvig, Bowling Green State University

5. Bernstein's Personal Statement: Jewish and American Identity in the Jeremiah Symphony--Bethany S. Kissell, Indiana University
6. Bernstein's Chutzpah: Mass and the Jewish Tradition of Argument with God--Travis N. Yeager, Indiana University

-- BREAK (3:00–3:15)

Saturday, 3:15–4:45  Confronting Music
Chair: Mary Natvig, Bowling Green State University

7. La Bohème à la Russe: The Early History of Puccini's Opera in Russia--Olga Haldey, University of Missouri--Columbia
8. Le petit cours de morale: Honegger Confronts Les Six--Keith E. Clifton, Central Michigan University
9. The Jazzy Hour: Gladys Bentley, Lesbian Blues, and the Harlem Renaissance--Tina Spencer Dreisbach, Hiram College

Saturday, 4:45–5:30 Chapter Business Meeting

Saturday, 5:30–6:30 HORA FELIX

Sunday, 9:00–10:00  Early Music
Chair: James Borders, University of Michigan

10. A Tale of Three Cities: A New Manuscript Source of Holy Week Music for Renaissance Florence, Venice, and Siena--Timothy J. Dickey, University of Iowa
11. Reading Between the Lines: Music Print Dedications in Early Modern Rome--Mary Paquette-Abt, Wayne State University

-- BREAK (10:15–10:30)

Sunday 10:30–12:00  Music and Statement

12. The Visual Imagination of a Romantic Seascape: Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture Revisited--Annett Richter, University of Minnesota
13. Juan Bautista Plaza and the Venezuelan Choral Movement--Marie Elizabeth Labonville, Illinois State University
14. Music and the Ultra-Modern Lifestyle: A Cultural History of Djane Lavoie-Herz--Rebecca Meador Bennett, Northwestern University

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