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PROGRAM FOR CHICAGO MEETING

National-Louis University Chicago

Saturday, October 4, 2008
9:00 – 9:30  Registration and Coffee

9:30 – 12:00 Performance, Reception and (Mis)Interpretation
Chair:  Jessie Fillerup

Musical Interpretation and “The Historical Imagination”
Glen Carruthers, Brandon University

“Back in the Day”:  Historicism in Recent Black American Popular Music
Jonathan Yaeger, Indiana University

Break

Schubert’s Marche militaire and the Lure of Reception
Scott Messing, Alma College

Spontini and the City:  Bach and Musical Politics in Berlin
Eftychia Papanikolaou, Bowling Green State University

12:00 – 2:00 Lunch

2:00 – 3:15 Patronage and Polyphony in Medieval France
Chair:  Elinor Olin

Music to Honor Nobility:  Civic Patronage of Music in Late Medieval Tours and Orleans
Gretchen Peters, University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire

Report on the Earliest Polyphonic Art Music
Hans Tischler, Indiana University

Break

3:30 – 4:45 Nationalism and the Other
Chair:  Michael Vaughn

Johann Sporschil’s Interview Article about Beethoven (1823):  A New Key to the Composer’s Missing Documents
Theodore Albrecht, Kent State University

Paddy O'Scherzo:  The American “Stage Irishman” and the Humor Theme in the Reception of George Chadwick’s Second Symphony Scherzo
Charles S. Freeman, University of Kansas

Break

5:00 – 5:30 Business Meeting

Sunday, October 5, 2008
9:00 – 11:00  Body, Voice and the Performance of Gender
Chair:  Jessie Fillerup

Gender and the Body in Stravinsky-Nijinska's Les Noces
Julia Randel, Hope College

From Stravinsky to Copland:  The “Rite” Road to the Development of American Modern Ballet
Terri Knupps, Southwest Baptist University

Unrecording Philomel:  Taped Voice as Schizophonic Prosthesis
Christopher Barry, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Break

11:15 – 12:45 Mediating Fictions:  Opera and the Novel
Chair:  Rob Fallon

Renata and Her Inquisitor:  The Divine and Demonic Without Dividing Line
Rachel Maine, Northwestern University

“Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it—every, every minute?”  Scoring Didacticism and Affirmation in Copland’s Modern-Day Morality Plays Our Town & The Tender Land
Ryan P. Jones, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

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