Spring 2007 Program
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Saturday, March 24, 9:45-11:45 a.m.
Session I: Operatic Subjects
Effie Papanikolauo, Miami University, Chair
Heather Foote, University of Iowa
“A Bombastic Baritone and Scheming Soprano: Unconventional Characters in Giuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff”
Shinobu Yoshida, University of Michigan
“Puccini's Exotic Women?: Subverting Conventions of the Tragic Heroine”
Maria Cristina Fava, Eastman School of Music
“Transforming Text: Weill’s Use of Circularity as a Framing Device”
Melinda Boyd, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati
“Unmasking the Ballroom Scene in Thea Musgrave’s Mary, Queen of Scots”
Sat. 12:00–2:00 p.m.
Group Lunch
Sat. 2:15–4:15 p.m.
Session II: Keynote Address and Panel
Dr. Charles Atkinson, The Ohio State University
President of the American Musicological Society
“Musicology Today and Tomorrow”
Sat. 4:30 p.m.
Business Meeting
Sunday, March 25, 9:00–11:00 a.m.
Session III: Reassessing Analysis
Lynn Kane, Wheaton College
“The Influence of Basso Continuo Practice on the Late Eighteenth-Century Lied”
Julie Hedges Brown, Oberlin Conservatory
“The style hongrois and Schumann's Formal Experiments of 1842”
Ryan Ross University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“'Night and Day': New Thoughts on the Conclusion to Mahler's Seventh Symphony”
Sun. 11:15 a.m.–12:45 p.m.
Session IV: Religious Topoi
Jessica A. Shelvik, University of IL, Urbana-Champaign
“ ‘Pagan-Religious Merry-Making:’ The Program(s) of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Svetlyi Prazdnik”
Christopher Urbiel
“A House Divided May Indeed Stand: Edward Elgar’s Roman Catholic Motets and Anglican Anthems”
American Institutions
Jane Riegel Ferencz, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
“Music for Wisconsin: The WPA Federal Music Project in Madison”
Mark D. Porcaro, Muskegon, MI
“Beatlemania Magically Recreated: Hyperreality and Tribute Bands in the United States"
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