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AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY
MIDWEST CHAPTER

SECOND MAILING, 2002-2003
August 2002

INDEX: Fall Meeting, Accommodations, Travel, Driving, Parking, Events, Program, Spring Meeting Announcement

FALL 2001 MEETING IN CHICAGO
The Fall 2002 meeting of the Midwest Chapter will take place 28-29 September in Chicago at the National-Louis University, Loop Campus, 122 South Michigan Avenue, in room 5006. NLU is centrally located down the street from the Symphony and across the street from the Art Institute. The Chapter thanks Elinor Olin for handling the local arrangements, as well as serving on the Program Committee of Charles Atkinson (chair), Susan Filler, and Edward Kottick. For up-to-the minute updates on the meeting, check the AMS Midwest Chapter website http://www-personal.umich.edu/~claguem/amsmidwest/ and visit the FALL 2002 MEETING PAGE.

ACCOMMODATIONS
Hotels near the meeting site include:

• Congress Plaza Hotel, 520 South Michigan Ave. (312/427-3800; FAX 312/427-7264; http://www.congresshotel.com/).
• Cass Hotel, 640 North Wabash Ave. (800/227-7850; http://www.casshotel.com/) is a more economical alternative.
• Motel 6 at 162 East Ontario St. (312/787-3580) is an alternative for those willing to take a five-minute taxi ride.
• Chicago Downtown Travelodge at 65 East Harrison (888/515-6375).

TRAVEL: AIRPORTS, PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, AND TAXIS
Airport Express runs vans from both airports (1-800/654-7871; http://www.airportexpress.com/Airport.htm); you may make a reservation in advance. Ask to be dropped off at the Palmer House (the hotel closest to National-Louis). The cost from O’Hare is $20 one-way or $37 round trip; the cost from Midway is $15 one-way and $28 round trip. Less expensive public transportation can be had from either airport. From O'Hare take the Blue Line; from Midway take the Orange Line (exit at Adams stop). Cab fare from the airports ranges between $30 and $50. Call 1-800/TAXICAB.

TRAVEL: DRIVING

• From South or North

If driving from the south on I-90/94 (Dan Ryan Expressway) or from the north on I-90/94 (Kennedy Expressway), take the Congress Parkway exit east. Follow Congress past Michigan Avenue, continuing past the equestrian statues to a left turn on Columbus Drive. From points north or south on Lake Shore Drive, exit at Monroe Street, then turn right (north) on Columbus Drive. The most economical parking close to the meeting site is the Monroe Street Garage ($10.00/day), the entrance for which is located just past Monroe Street on Columbus Drive. Exit the parking garage (on foot) at the Monroe Street side, walking west to Michigan Avenue. National-Louis University is located in the middle of the block, on the west side of Michigan Avenue directly across the street from the Art Institute of Chicago. Look for the Bennigan’s Restaurant at the corner of Michigan and Adams. The elevator lobby of the building is two doors north.

• From West

From points west in I-290 (Eisenhower Expressway), you may also follow Congress east to Michigan Avenue, then north on Columbus Drive. If you’re coming from the west on I-55 (Stevenson Expressway), exit on Lake Shore Drive north, then follow the directions above.

PARKING
Parking may be found at the Grant Park North Garage ($14.00/day), the entrance for which is approached from the north on Michigan Avenue between Madison and Monroe streets. Exit the parking garage (on foot) onto Michigan Avenue, and walk south one block.

EVENTS

What else is going on in Chicago during the weekend of the meeting?

The Mozart Sinfonia with conductor Diana Kodner will perform Saturday evening at 7:30 at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, located at the corner of LaSalle and Goethe. The concert features Mozart's symphonies No. 21 and 27 and Haydn's symphonies NO. 2 and 25. The ensemble includes AMS-Midwest member Jeffrey Wasson among its members.

Art Institute exhibits in late September include "Fukusa and Furoshiki: A Gift of Splendid Japanese Gift Covers and Wrapping Cloths" and a retrospective of works by Spanish sculptor Juan Muñoz (http://www.artic.edu/aic/ or 312/443-3600).

Chicago Symphony (http://www.chicagosymphony.org or 1-800-223-7114) presents an all Ravel program on Saturday, September 28th. Daniel Barenboim, conductor and piano. Works include Mother Goose Suite and Piano Concerto in G Major.

Jazz pianist Oscar Peterson is performing in Symphony Hall on Friday, September 27th. Ticket information available through the Chicago Symphony website and ticket office.

Lyric Opera presents a new production of the double bill "Cav & Pag" Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana along with Ruggiero Leoncavallo’s Pagaliacci on Saturday evening. Cast includes Dolora Zajick (Santuzza) and Vincenzo la Scola (Turiddu). (http://www.lyricopera.com/Tickets/index.html or 312/332-2244.)

SPRING MEETING
Mark your calendars now for the Spring Meeting of the AMS Midwest chapter in St. Louis, March 22-23. Our host will by Washington University and local arrangements are being coordinated by Dolores Pesce. Current plans call for using the Best Western Inn at the Park as the conference hotel ($86.15 single, $97.64 double). They will hold a block of 20 rooms until March 1. Stay tuned for further details.

PROGRAM FOR CHICAGO MEETING

MIDWEST CHAPTER

AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY

28-29 September 2002

SOURCE, GENRE, AND ANALYSIS (Charles Atkinson, Ohio State University, Chair)

Saturday 28 September, 9:30 a.m.-12 noon

"De Monte, Monteverdi, and the Process of Dialogue in Poetry and Music in Sixteenth-Century Italy"

            Jennifer L. King (Indiana University)

"Modal Mingling and Liturgical Quotation: A Fresh Look at the 15th-Century English Carols"

            Beth Ann Zamzow (Kirkwood Community College)

"The Problem of Form in Schoenberg's Verklärte Nacht: Toward an Epistemology of the Creative Process"

            Edgardo Raul Salinas (Bowling Green State University)

"A New Source of Early Trouvère Songs"

            Hans Tischler (Indiana University)

MUSIC IN URBAN AMERICA (Jeffrey Magee, Indiana University, Chair))

Saturday 28 September, 2:00-4:30 p.m.

"The Institutional Muse: Music, Commerce, and Community in Chicago's Auditorium Theater, 1889-1894"

            Mark Clague (University of Michigan)

"Marc Blitzstein's Sacco and Vanzetti and the Rhetoric of McCarthyism"

            Maria Cristina Fava (Bowling Green State University)

"Jazz Exotica and the Naked City"

            Phil Ford (University of Minnesota)

"Who Blew out the Flame? Rediscovering the Great Mildred Bailey Songbook”

            Tina Spencer Dreisbach (Hiram College)

BRAHMS, WAGNER, MAHLER (Susan Filler, Chicago, Chair)

Sunday 29 September, 9:30-12 noon

"Occasions, Nations, and Disseminations in Brahms's Fest- und Gedenkspräche"

            Ryan Minor (University of Chicago)

"Wagner's Parsifal: Compositional Genesis and Dramatic Psychology"

            William Kinderman (University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana)

"Staging Wagner's Parsifal: Who Gets to Die?"

            Katherine Syer (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

"Reinventing the Gesamtkunstwerk: Gustav Mahler and Alfred Roller's 1903 Production of Tristan und Isolde"

            James L. Zychowicz (Madison, WI)

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