AMS Midwest News

AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY
MIDWEST CHAPTER

FOURTH MAILING, 2001-2002
March 2002

SPRING MEETING: INDIANAPOLIS, APRIL 13-14
The Chapter's Spring meeting will at the University Place Conference Center and Hotel on the campus of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), 800 West Michigan Street. Indianapolis, hosted by Roberta Lindsey. Click here for additional materials (such as maps) and information on the meeting. An anonymous donor has provided 30 lunches for the participants--members of AMS for Saturday's lunch at the Indiana Historical Society. (Lunch is free for the first 30 AMS members who sign-up at the door to the conference.) The now-traditional AMS Midwest regional Saturday night dinner will be at the Rathskeller Restaurant in downtown Indianapolis.

ACCOMMODATIONS
We have been able to arrange for a block of 20 rooms at the University Place Conference Center and Hotel (1-800-627-2700). Special student housing is also available at a reduced cost. Free transportation is available before the morning sessions on Saturday and Sunday with return transportation at the end of the afternoon session on Saturday. Students please e-mail Dr. Roberta Lindsey in order to secure a room. For other alternatives visit the sites of the various national chains.

GETTING THERE: FLYING
Indianapolis International is the primary airport for the city. It is a busy airport and a hub for many commuter flights. Our conference hotel provides a shuttle service to and from the airport.

GETTING THERE: DRIVING FROM THE SOUTH OR NORTH
If driving from the south on I-65 North follow the signs to Indiana Medical Center (IUPUI) by transferring to I-70 West exiting at West Street. Proceed North to Michigan Street (a one-way street going west) and turn left. Go west or straight until you reach University Boulevard (second stoplight) and turn north or right. The Indiana University Hospital is on your left side and the University Place Conference Center and Hotel is on your right. Turn east or right onto North Street (the first stop light). The University Place Conference Center and Hotel is to your right and has a pull in drive to accommodate unloading and loading of luggage. (Caution: Do not park in the surface lots without a parking permit at the risk of receiving a ticket and being towed.) If you are arriving from the north on I-65 South, take the West Street/Martin Luther King, Jr. Street exit. Follow this street to Michigan Street (a one-way street going west) and turn left. Go west or straight until you reach University Boulevard (second stoplight) and turn north or right. The Indiana University Hospital is on your left side and the University Place Conference Center and Hotel is on your right. Turn east or right onto North Street (the first stop light). Our hotel is located to the right and has a pull in drive to accommodate unloading and loading of luggage. The most convenient parking is in the underground facility attached to the hotel.

GETTING THERE: DRIVING FROM THE EAST OR WEST
The principal East/West route into Indianapolis is I-70. If driving from the East on I-70, take the West Street/Martin Luther King, Jr. Street exit. Follow this street to Michigan Street (a one-way street going west) and turn left. Go west or straight until you reach University Boulevard (second stoplight) and turn north or right. The Indiana University Hospital is on your left side and the University Place Conference Center and Hotel is on your right. Turn east or right onto North Street (the first stop light). The University Place Conference Center and Hotel is on the right and has a pull in drive to accommodate unloading and loading of luggage. If you are driving on I-70 West follow the signs to the Indiana Medical Center (IUPUI), exiting at West Street. Proceed North to Michigan Street (a one-way street going west) and turn left. Go west or straight until you reach University Boulevard (second stoplight) and turn north or right. The Indiana University Hospital is on your left side and the University Place Conference Center and Hotel is on your right. Turn east or right onto North Street (the first stop light). The University Place Conference Center and Hotel, on the right, has a pull in drive to accommodate unloading and loading of luggage.

PARKING ONCE YOU ARE THERE
The most convenient parking is the underground-parking garage attached to the Hotel. For the conference, parking will be available in the lot immediately to the west of the building.

CULTURAL EVENTS DURING THE CONFERENCE
* Indianapolis Museum of Art exhibits in April include "The Fabric of Moroccan Life" featuring over 150 magnificent wall hanging and rugs. The exhibit runs from March 24 through August. A Free Exhibit on Van Gogh and the Labors of the Field will also be running from January 15 until June 9.

* Dance Kaleidoscope (professional modern dance company) presents "East Meets West" featuring music by Dr. Michael Schelle, and premiering three new works.

* A special musical event, "American Composer" is being presented at the American Cabaret Theatre. (Group tickets are available--please contact Roberta Lindsey rlindsey@iupui.edu at least one week before the conference if you would like to attend.)

2000-2001 STUDENT PRIZE WINNERS
The chapter congratulates the winners of the 2000-2001 student prizes. As always, the chapter was presented with numerous excellent papers presented by student members and expresses its thanks and appreciation to all students who submitted papers or presented papers in the past year. Indiana University Press Award: Shersten Johnson of Lawrence, Kansas, "Britten's Musical Syllables"; A-R Editions Award: Roberta Freund Schwarz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, "En busca de liberalidad: Modalities of Music Patronage by the Spanish Nobility, 1470-1640"

NOMINATIONS FOR CHAPTER PRESIDENT
The Chapter thanks the Nominations Committee--Jeffrey Wasson (chair), Brian Hart, and Mary Natvig--as well as the candidates who have offered themselves for election to the office of Chapter President. Thumbnail biographies follow. The Chapter will vote at the business meeting in Indianapolis, Saturday, 13 April 2002. For those who can not attend, please print and mail an absentee ballot.

Richard P. Benedum is Professor of Music at the University of Dayton, and since 2001 holds the endowed Alumni Chair in the Humanities. He served as chair of the Music Department from 1980-88 and from 1996-2001. He received the College of Arts and Sciences Award for Teaching in 1994, and the University of Dayton Alumni Award for Teaching in 1998. He is the founder and music director of the Dayton Bach Society and is also active as an organ recitalist and church musician. His research interests include compositional process in Bach's works, the meaning and pattern of articulation marks in Bach's autograph manuscripts, and the operas and early biographical studies of Mozart He received his D.M.A. in organ performance from the University of Oregon, where he studied with John Hamilton. He subsequently studied organ and conducting with Helmuth Rilling (Stuttgart, Germany) and musicology with Christoph Wolff (Harvard University).

James Briscoe is Professor of Music at Butler University in Indianapolis. His teaching emphasizes American, 18th-century, and 19th-century music. He compiled the Historical Anthology of Music by Women (Indiana University Press, 1987), which he is currently revising. Among his other publications are Claude Debussy: A Guide to Research (Garland Publishing, New York, 1990), the 2-volume collection of Claude Debussy: 62 Songs (a critical and performing edition Hal Leonard Publishers, 1993), and the Contemporary Anthology of Music by Women (Indiana University Press, 1997). Among his current research projects is a study of Debussy's reception in America, 1895Ü1918. Dr. Briscoe graduated with a bachelor's degree in cello from the University of Alabama and with both master's and doctorate from the University of North Carolina. He has received research and teaching grants from the French government, National Endowment for the Humanities, Danforth Foundation and Mellon Foundation, Butler University, and Indiana Humanities Council. The highest award, in his opinion, came at Butler University in 1984, when students named him Outstanding Teacher of the Year.

Preliminary Program
Midwest AMS Spring Meeting
13-14 April 2002
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

A Note from the President
We apologize for the lateness of this Newsletter. While building a program for the Spring Meeting has been a delight because of the many fine submissions, the process of e-mail submission has been anything but smooth. We would like to try using e-mail again but need to make a Website submission form so that the program committee gets all the information it needs to make the program. Two papers have yet to be given an exact place in the program, a few titles are incomplete, and all diacritical marks have disappeared into thin air. Please forgive us.

PRESIDENT (2000-2) Dr. Camilla Cai Music Department Storer Hall Kenyon College Gambier, OH 43022 office: 740/427-5180 or -5000 home: 740/427-2380 email: cai@kenyon.edu		SECRETARY (2001-3) Dr. Matthew Balensuela Depauw University School of Music Performing Arts Center144W 701 S. College Ave. Greencastle, IN 46135-1916 phone: 765/658-4398 email: balensue@depauw.edu

TREASURER (2001-3) Dr. Dane Heuchemer Music Department Kenyon College Gambier, OH 43022 phone: 740/427-5521 fax: 740/427-5512 email: heuchemerd@kenyon.edu		AMS COUNCIL REP. (2000-2) Dr. Craig B. Parker Music Department McCain Auditorium Kansas State University Manhattan, KS 66506-4702 phone: 785/532-3810 email: cbp@ksu.edu