Friday, April 1

6:00 PM: Gail Stein, pre-concert lecture for Benjamin Britten's "Rape of
Luctretia." Event co-sponsored by the Martha Ellen Tye Opera Theatre Company
and the University of Iowa Rape Crisis Center. Open reception to follow.

8:00–10:00 PM: Pre-Conference Reception at the home of Ed. Kottick

 

Saturday, ApriL 2

 9:00     Registration, Coffee, and Conversation

1. Allusion and Reference

            Chair: Matthew Balensuela (DePauw University)

 

9:30     Johannes Brahms, Gustav Nottebohm, and Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” Sonata - Marie T. Rivers (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign)

10:00     Leopoldine Blahetka’s Piano Quartet, op. 44, and a “Mature, Male Spirit” - Damaris Boettiger (University of Iowa)

  10 :30  COFFEE BREAK

 

11:00   Race, Class, and Fate in Frederick Delius’s Koanga - Eric Saylor (Drake

University)

11:30   The Jew Who Buried Hitler: Music and Identity in Mel Brooks’s The Producers - Katherine Baber (Indiana University)

 

12:00   Lunch

Saturday Afternoon Sessions

 

1. Collaborators and Resisters

            Chair: James Borders (University of Michigan)

 

2:00     “I have been careful to do what I knew Gershwin would like”: The Gershwin-

            Reiner-Bennett Symphonic Picture of Porgy and Bess (1942) - George Ferencz

            (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater)

2:30     Stravinsky and Ingolf Dahl: Portrait of a Collaboration - Craig B. Parker (Kansas State University)

3:00     Cold War Politics and the Rise of Postmodern Pastiche - Danielle Fosler-Lussier (The Ohio State University)

 

3:30     BREAK

 

2. Beyond the Clergy’s Grasp

 

3:45     The Musical World of Medieval Amiens Outside the Cathedral - Gretchen Peters (University of Wisconsin, Eau-Claire)

4:15     The Pen and the Sword: The Composer as Knight in the Late Middle Ages - Joseph W. Hupchick (University of Cincinnati)

 

4:45     Annual Businnes Meeting (Election of Officers) to be followed by Hora Felix

 

 

1. Passing the Time

            Chair: Scott Messing (Alma College)

 

9:00     Epigrams from Goethe’s Faust and Meaning in Fanny Hensel’s Das Jahr - Marian Wilson Kimber (University of Iowa)

9:30     Clockwork Souls: The Characterization of Time in Ravel’s L’Heure espagnole –

Jessie Fillerup (University of Kansas)

10:00   He Could’ve Been a Contender: Motivic Integration in Leonard Bernstein’s Score

            for On the Waterfront - Anthony J. Bushard (University of Kansas)

 

10:30   COFFEE BREAK

 

2. Instrumentalists and Instruments in the Early Modern Period

 

10:45   “It Gave the Delight of a Full Consort”: Femininity, Viol Playing, and Early

Modern England - Jenni Veitch Olson (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

11:15   From Paris to Bruges: The Odyssey of the Modern Harpsichord –

Edward L. Kottick (University of Iowa)