Friday, 2 April

8:00 PM: Retirement Dinner for Karin Pendle at San Chez

Saturday, 3 April

8:30 AM: Registration begins

9:00–12:15: Session I — Edward Kottick, chair (Emeritus, University of Iowa)

   Music and Society

        9:00 "Brecht on Broadway: Kurt Weill's Love Life (1948) in a Comparative Study with Stephen

            Sondheim's Assassins (1990)"

Lara Housez (University of Western Ontario)

        9:30 "Sacramental Politics, Via Media, and the Lost Potential of Anglican Liturgical Music"

            Frederick Tarrant (University of Toledo)

10:00 "Is this Really Liberty, Equality, Fraternity?: The Emergence of Frence Rap and the Americanization as Cultural Miscegenation Thesis"

            J. Griffith Rollefson (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

10:30 AM   Kaffee and Klatsching

   Revisions and Reinterpretations

        10:45 "Reger Performs Bach: Evidence from the Meiningen Reger Archive"

            Christopher Anderson (University of North Dakota)

        11:15 "Never was a Tale of Greater Woe: The Unknown Happy Ending of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet"

            Deborah A. Wilson (Ohio State University, Marion Campus)

        11:45 "Rachmaninoff: The Case for a New (Re)appraisal"

            Glen Carruthers (Brandon University, Canada)

12:15–2:00   Lunch

2:00–4:00 PM Session II — Karin Pendle, chair (Emerita, University of Cincinnati

                                           College-Conservatory of Music)

   Pop, Hip Hop, and the Classics

        2:00 "Too Black: Contrasting Images of Bessie Smith and Ethel Waters in Early Blues"

            Natalie K. Zelensky (Northwestern University)

        2:30 "A New Refutation of Time and Space: The Hip Hop Aesthetic of Digable Planets"

            Marc Rice (Truman State University)

        3:00 "'Strangely Touched and Drawn Together': E. Azalia Hackley and Music Activism in

            African-American Communities, 1914–18"

            Juanita Karpf (Oberlin, Ohio)

3:30 PM   More Kaffee, More Klatsching

        3:45 "W.C. Handy in America's Musical Life."

            Keynote Address by Richard Crawford

            (Emeritus, University of Michigan)

4:30 PM   Business Meeting of the Chapter, to be followed by:

Reception of Wine and Edible Fantasies, through the courtesy of Grand Valley State University, Lisa Feurzeig and John Schuster-Craig, Local Arrangements Co-Chairs

Keynote Address — W.C. Handy
by Richard Crawford, 3:45 PM Sat.

SUNDAY, 4 APRIL

9:00–12:15: Session III — Matthew Steel, chair (Western Michigan University)

   A Varied Group of Valuable Presentations

        9:00 "Reaching the World Beyond: Musical Symbols as Poetic Interpretation in Three Schubert Songs"

            Lisa Feurzeig (Grand Valley State University)

        9:30 "Grieg, the Société Nationale, and the Origins of Debussy's String Quartet"

            Michael Strasser (Baldwin-Wallace College)

        10:00 "Redating the Choros of Heitor Villa-Lobos"

            Luiz Fernando Lopes (Indiana University)

10:30 AM   Yet again coffee

   Analysis and Interpretation in Three Movements

        10:45 "Toward a Rhetorical Analysis of Large-Scale Structure in 17^th-Century Music:

            A Case Study Using Works by Giovanni Felice Sances"

            Andrew H. Weaver (University of Notre Dame)

        11:15 "Enigma Variations: Keyserlingk, Goldberg, and Bach"

            Robert W. Weidner (Emeritus, Eastern Illinois University)

        11:45 "The 'Distant Beloved' Archetype in Schumann's Second Symphony"

            Erik M. Horak-Hult (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)