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AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY
MIDWEST CHAPTER
FOURTH MAILING, 2000-2001
MARCH 2001
EVERYTHING'S UP TO DATE . . .
. . . in Kansas City, where the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri-Kansas City will host the spring meeting of the Midwest Chapter on 24-25 March. The UMKC campus is just southeast of the Country Club Plaza shopping district (the resemblance to Seville is not coincidental) and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The meeting site will be Grant Hall, on Holmes Street between 52d and 53d Streets. The Program Committee, chaired by Larry Bennett, has "gone about as far as it can go" to gather an engaging slate of presentations (see p. 2), and William Everett has kindly handled the local arrangements (thanks and kudos!). Details of the meeting, travel information, accommodations, maps, shopping, library facilities, weather, local attractions, and special events-all have been posted by webmaster Mark Clague on the Chapter website: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~claguem/amsmidwest , where one can find a host of useful links. Especially noteworthy are performances of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress by the Lyric Opera of Kansas City (call 1.877.469.4467 for tickets), on Friday 23 March at 8 PM, and Sunday, 25 March, at 2 PM.
Getting there
by air.
Kansas City International Airport serves the major national airlines. Shuttle
service to the Country Club Plaza area is available from KCI Shuttle (816.243.5000),
which has ticket desks in every terminal of the airport. One-way fare is $14,
round-trip $23. Alternatively, and more expensively, Quicksilver Airport Service
(913.262.0905) will get you there for $23.50 each way (no round-trip discount,
reservations required).
Getting there
by automobile.
Those arriving on I-70 from the north, west, or east, take I-35 south to the
Broadway exit and continue south, passing through both the Westport and the
Country Club Plaza areas. At 47th Street (Brush Creek Blvd.), turn left (that
is, east). Proceed past the Nelson Atkins Museum to Rockhill and turn right
(south). At the fork in the road, bear right (a sign is posted), and continue
down Cherry Street to 52d Street. Turn left into 52d, right on Holmes, and left
again on 53d. Turn into the parking lot (free!) on the left, and Grant Hall
will be immediately before you. Those arriving on I-470 from the south, take
the Holmes exit. Continue north on Holmes to Baptist Memorial Hospital, veer
to the right (following the main traffic flow), and get onto Rockhill Road.
Continue on Rockhill to 52d Street, turn left onto the UMKC campus, and left
again into the Grant Hall parking lot immediately before the dead end.
Where to stay.
The Country Club Plaza and Westport districts, both close to the meeting site,
have excellent restaurants and shopping as well as the following hotels (the
meeting website has a link for online registration). In the Country Club Plaza
area, there is a Marriott at 4445 Main Street (816.531.3000; call 1.800.228.9290
for reservations) charging $99 or $129 a night (the latter with breakfast for
two); a Four Points Barcelo/ Sheraton at 45th & Main (816-753-7400; call1-800-325
3535 for reservations), at $99 a night; a Best Western Seville Plaza at 4308
Main Street (816.561.9600), charging but $79/night; and the Raphael Hotel at
325 Ward Parkway (816.756.3800), charging $119 for a standard room, $135 for
a suite, and $145 for a suite with a view of the Plaza. In the Westport area,
try the Quarterage Hotel at 560 Westport Road (816.931.0001), where $89/night
will get you a lavish full breakfast and afternoon cocktails as well as a room;
or the Holiday Inn Express at 801 Westport Road (816.931.1000), for $104 a night.
Chapter dinner!
Yes, we're doing it again, this time KC-style. After the business meeting on
Saturday, join your colleagues at the KC Masterpiece Barbeque and Grill for
hora felix and dinner beginning at 5 p.m. The restaurant, which is close to
UMKC, will serve its full menu, including vegetarian options. Each attendee
covers the cost of meal, drinks, tax, and tip.
SPRING MEETING 2001 PROGRAM
University
of Missouri-Kansas City, Conservatory of Music
Saturday, 24 March
8:30 Registration
Musical
Conundrums and Hidden Meanings
Lawrence Bennett (Wabash College), Chair
9:00 Elinor Olin (National-Louis University), "Searching for Offenbach's Intentions, or Les Contes d'Hoffmann De-Composed"
9:40 Renee Cherie Clark (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "ReadingVaughn Williams Reading Housman: On Wenlock Edge as Nationalist Rhetoric"
10:20 Break
10:30 Karen M. Bottge (Madison, Wisconsin), "Brahms, the Sonorous Envelope, and the Infantilization of Musical Listening"
11:10 Steven Moore Whiting (University of Michigan), "Satie's Vexations: New Queries and Connections"
11:50 LUNCH
New Perspectives
in Form and Analysis
James Parsons (Southwest Missouri State University), Chair
1:30 Stephen Self (Bethel College, St. Paul, Minnesota), "The Origins of the Cantus Firmus Mass: Surveying Large-Scale Architecture"
2:10 Kurt Markstrom (University of Manitoba), "Caesura and Mechanical Rules of Melody"
2:50 Break
3:00 Neil Minturn (University of Missouri, Columbia), "Rhetorical Economy and Rhetorical Opulence in Some Harmonic Dramas in Tonal Music"
3:40 Shersten Johnson (Lawrence, Kansas), "Britten's Musical Syllables"
4:20 Business Meeting, followed by hora felix and Chapter Dinner at KC Masterpiece Barbecue and Grill
Sunday, 25 March
Patronage
and Promotion
Dane Heuchemer (Kenyon College), Chair
9:00 Roberta Freund Schwarz (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), "En busca de liberalidad: Modalities of Music Patronage by the Spanish Nobility, 1470-1640"
9:40 Michael J. Budds (University of Missouri, Columbia), "Prince Albert, an 'Early' Connoisseur of 'Early Music': An Opportunity Taken, an Opportunity Missed"
10:20 Break
10:30 Sarah Schmalenberger (University of Minnesota), "The Three Periods of Negro Music and Drama (1921-1922): Negotiating a Place for African-Americans in Music History"
11:10 Craig B. Parker (Kansas State University), "Stravinsky in Los Angeles: New Perspectives"
NOMINATIONS FOR CHAPTER OFFICERS
The Chapter thanks the Nominations Committee-James Briscoe (chair) and Shirley
Bean-and the candidates who have offered themselves for election to the offices
of Chapter Secretary and Treasurer for the term 2001-2003: Matthew Balensuela
and Roberta Lindsey (for Chapter Secretary), and Dane Heuchemer and Michael
Strasser (for Chapter Treasurer). Thumbnail biographies follow. The Chapter
will vote at the business meeting in Kansas City, Saturday, 24 March 2001. If
you cannot attend the meeting, please mail a copy of the chapter's absentee
ballot.
CANDIDATES
FOR CHAPTER SECRETARY
Matthew Balensuela (Ph.D. Indiana). Associate Professor, DePauw University.
Areas of research: Medieval and Renaissance music theory. Publications include
a critical edition of Ars cantus mensurabilis (Nebraska) and several articles
on early theory and theorists in The New Grove (2d edition).
Roberta Lindsey (Ph.D. Ohio State). Assistant Professor, Indiana University-Indianapolis. Areas of research: Copland's orchestral work and Grohg, a ballet in one act. She has originated courses in distance learning of music history by non-traditional students. She is contributing editor of Essays in Honor of Aaron Copland and recently received a Dena Epstein Grant.
CANDIDATES
FOR CHAPTER TREASURER
Dane Heuchemer (Ph.D. Cincinnati). Assistant Professor, Kenyon College. Areas
of research: court music in 16th century Saxony, performance practice, music
and politics. Active as a cornetto and natural trumpet performer, Heuchemer
has read papers at various regional and national meetings. Publications include
articles in The New Grove (2d edition), Music Reserach Forum, and Reader's Guide
to Music: History, Theory, and Criticism.
Michael Strasser (Ph.D. Illinois). Assistant Professor, Baldwin-Wallace College. Areas of research: French music and musical life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He has read papers on these topics for AMS-Midwest and AMS national meetings. He served for many years as a high school and university band director before pursuing doctoral studies.
Chapter Officers and Representatives
President (2000-2002)
Dr. Camilla Cai
Music Department
Kenyon College
Gambier, OH 43022
phone: 740.427.5180
cai@kenyon.edu
Secretary (1999-2001)
Dr. Steven M. Whiting
School of Music
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2085
phone: 734.764.2504
stevenmw@umich.edu
Treasurer (1999-2001)
Dr. Mary Natvig
512 No. Main St.
Bowling Green, OH 43402-2043
phone: 419.353.9292
mnatvig@bgnet.bgsu.edu
AMS Council Representative
(2000-2002)
Dr. Craig B. Parker
Music Department-McCain Auditorium
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS 66506-4702
phone: 785.532.3810
cbp@ksu.edu
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