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PROGRAM FOR CHICAGO MEETING

 

Fall Meeting

National-Louis University

October 17-18, 2009

 

8:30 -- 9:00 a.m.  Coffee and Refreshments

9:00 – 10:30 a.m.  Session 1: Politics and Musical Theatre

Chair:  Christopher Williams

Monica Hershberger, Michigan State University

Peter Maxwell Davies’ Yellow Cake Revue

 

Lisa Feurzeig, Grand Valley State University

Politics Old and New: Multiple Meanings of an Operetta Revival

 

10:40 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.  Session 2: Postwar Reinterpretations

Chair:  Brian Locke

Glen Carruthers, Brandon University

The Ontology of Recordings

 

Dina Lentsner, Capital University

Farewell, Dichterliebe…: Schumann, Kurtág and the Intertext

 

12:10 – 2:00 p.m. Lunch

 

2:00 – 3:30 p.m. Session 3: Massenet

Chair: Elinor Olin

Erin Brooks, Washington University

Massenet, Saint-Saens and Incidental Music for Racine

 

Sarah Ruddy, Muskegon, Michigan

Massenet’s Passion of Marie-Magdeleine

 

3:40 -- 5:10 p.m.  Session 4:  Publication as Discourse

Chair:  Michael Vaughn

Sherri Bishop, Indiana University

Marketing and the Madrigal: Changing Approaches to the Title Page in Venetian Madrigal Prints, 1538-1560

 

Holly Holmes, University of Illinois

Ku Klux Klan Sheet Music: ‘Creating Desire’ in 1920s Middle America

 

Business meeting 5:15 p.m.

 

Sunday, 18 October 2009

9:00 -- 11:15 a.m.  Session 5: Vocal Narratives

Chair:  Elinor Olin

Katerina Lichtenwalter, Notre Dame, Indiana

Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen: An Aesthetic Dichotomy

 

Alison DeSimone, University of Michigan

‘Médée et son pouvoir’: Musical and Dramatic Structures in Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Médée

 

Heather Strohschein, Bowling Green State University

‘Are You My Mother?’  Wagner’s Women and an Absence of the Maternal

 

11:30 a.m. –1:00 p.m.  Session 6: Between Genres, Between Communities

Chair:  Christopher Williams

Matt Kickasola, Webster University

Granville Bantock’s Redefinition of the Choral Symphony

 

Elissa Harbert, Northwestern University

Italian Musicians in the Early United States, 1780–1830

 

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