DEADLINE FOR SPRING
2009 ELECTION:
Vote must be received by 11:59 PM (Eastern Standard Time) on Thursday, 23 April 2009.
Dear Member of the Midwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society,
Listed below are the names of pairs of candidates for the positions of Chapter Representative and President. Members in good standing may vote once by e-mail or mail. Send a ballot via e-mail to the Chapter Secretary Stephanie Schlagel <amsmidwestsecretary@umich.edu> or via U.S. mail to College-Conservatory of Music / University of Cincinnati / Cincinnati, OH 45221-0003. Members may also vote if they are present at the business meeting at the Spring Conference at Baldwin-Wallace College on Saturday, April 25. Short biographical sketches of all candidates as well as vision statements from the presidential nominees are appended below.
2009 AMS MIDWEST CHAPTER BALLOT
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Chapter Secretary (2-year term), vote for one
___ Jane Riegel Ferencz (UW Whitewater)
___ Charles S. Freeman (University of Kansas)
Chapter Treasurer (2-year term), vote for one
___ Eftychia Papanikolaou (Bowling Green State University)
___ Marc Rice (Truman State University)
Chapter Representative (to the AMS Council, 2-year term), vote for one
___ David Kidger (Oakland University)
___ Brian Hart (Northern Illinois University)
Email your votes to <amsmidwestsecretary@umich.edu> For information on paying dues, please click here. If you submit a vote, but have not paid this year's dues, you will receive a dues reminder from Chapter Treasurer Jessie Fillerup. You may pay dues via Paypal or U.S. mail. If paid before the spring meeting, your vote will count.
Jane Riegel Ferencz is Assistant Professor of Music History and adjunct faculty in the Department of Women's Studies at UW-Whitewater. An Ohio native, she holds degrees in cello performance and musicology from DePauw University, Kent State University, and the University of Wisconsin- Madison, with additional doctoral study at Indiana University (Bloomington). She has presented papers at meetings of the American Musicological Society, the Haydn Society, and other organizations. Her musicological research interests are diverse, ranging from late 18th and early 19th century orchestral and chamber music to American music of the 20th century. Her current projects include studies of the WPA Federal Music Project in Wisconsin and a biography of the American pianist-composer-arranger Genevieve Pitot.
Dr. Ferencz is a member of the American Musicological Society, the Society for American Music and is a member of the Board of Directors for the Wisconsin Cello Society. She served as Chair of the SAM Wiley Housewright Dissertation Award Committee in 2008. She has been recognized for her teaching at UW-W, including the University’s Excellence Award for Academic Staff, as a UW-W LEARN Center Teaching-Scholar, and the College of Arts and Communication Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2009.
Charles S. Freeman joined the KU faculty Assistant Professor of Musicology in August 2007, having previously taught at Palm Beach Atlantic University, Texas Tech University, and Florida State University. He received his Ph.D. from Florida State University in 1999, with a dissertation on operas by George W. Chadwick and Frederick Converse.
Prof. Freeman's research interests focus primarily on the music and musical life of the late nineteenth-century United States, including the members of the Second New England School as well as other composers and musicians of the period. His publications include an essay on Chadwick and Converse for the collection Music and History: Bridging the Disciplines (University Press of Mississippi, 2005), as well as articles and reviews for the Journal of Musicological Research, Opera Journal, and the Encyclopedia of the United States in the Nineteenth Century. Current projects include a study of the impact of World War I on American composers and concert life.
In 2007 Prof. Freeman was invited to present a lecture at Miami University (Ohio) on the life and music of Edgar Stillman Kelley, as part of that school's celebration of the composer's 150th anniversary. He has also presented his research at many conferences in the United States and England, including the International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music, the International Conference on Romanticism, the Society for American Music, the College Music Society, the Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship, and regional meetings of the College Music Society and American Musicological Society.
Candidates for Treasurer
Eftychia Papanikolaou is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Bowling Green State University. She holds a B.A. in English Philology and Literature from the University of Athens, Greece, Music Theory Degrees from the National Conservatory of Athens, and Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Historical Musicology from Boston University.
Her lectures and publications (from Schumann and Brahms to Liszt and Mahler’s fin-de-siècle Vienna), focus on the interconnections of music, religion, and politics in the long nineteenth century, with emphasis on the sacred as a musical topos. Other research interests include music and film, and dance studies. Her essays discussing the music in The Last Temptation of Christ and the TV series Battlestar Galactica have appeared in interdisciplinary book collections. She is currently writing an essay addressing the final season of Battlestar Galactica, as well as a monograph on the genre of the Romantic Symphonic Mass.
She has served as member of the Program Committee of the Midwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society (2006-2008), member of the Committee on Career-Related Issues of the AMS (2005-2007), and she is member of the Board and Secretary of the Mozart Society of America (2006-present). In 2008 she was elected and served a shortened one-year term as Council Representative to the AMS.
Marc Rice is an Associate Professor of Musicology at Truman State University and is the area chair of the Perspectives of Music program. He earned a B.M. from Northern Kentucky University, a M.M. from the New England Conservatory, and a Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky. In addition he studied at the Berklee College of Music and Columbia University.
He has extensively published on gender and race issues concerning jazz in the Midwest. His work can be found in the journals American Music, Musical Quarterly, and the forthcoming Encyclopedia of African American Music. He has also conducted fieldwork in Louisiana, tracing the Cajun music revival, and is currently preparing a manuscript on the Nueva Cancion movement in Latin America. He teaches the Music History sequence for music majors, and courses on jazz history, the music of Louisiana, and music and political protest.
Candidates for Chapter Representative
David Kidger is Associate Professor of Musicology at the Department of Music, Theatre and Dance at Oakland University, where he is coordinator of the Undergraduate and Graduate Music History area. He has taught at Oakland University since 1998. Originally from London, England, he holds a MA degree in Musicology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a Ph.D. degree in Musicology from Harvard University. Since 2004 he has also taught for the Harvard University Summer School, and has been invited to return there to teach for the summer 2009 session.
Kidger's main research publication to date is in the Garland/Routledge Composer Research Guide series, "Adrian Willaert: A Guide to Research," published in 2004. The book takes the approach of a thematic catalog in providing a complete primary and secondary source list for each music work, as well as a complete appraisal of the scholarly literature on Willaert and his music
Dr. Kidger has presented research papers nationally and internationally at musicology conferences, including the American Musicological Society, the Renaissance Society of America, the International Musicological Society, the Annual Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference and the Royal Musical Association. He has published reviews in Renaissance Quarterly, Early Music, and Music and Letters, and has written program notes for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He has served on the program committee for the Midwest chapter of the America Musicological Society, and on the joint committee for AMS-MLA-RISM as an AMS representative. Plans are being made for Oakland University to host the Spring 2011 meeting of the Midwest Chapter of AMS.
Brian Hart specializes in French symphonic music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; he has written on various aspects of the late romantic French symphony, including its place in Parisian concert life, governmental support, and the use of the symphony to communicate socio-political philosophies. His study of the symphony in France from ca. 1850 to 1920 was published in A. Peter Brown with Brian Hart, The Symphonic Repertoire Vol. IIIB: The European Symphony from ca. 1830 to ca. 1930: Great Britain, Russia, and France (Indiana University Press, 2007). Professor Hart will serve as editor for Vols. VA and VB of the same series (The European Symphony from ca. 1930 to Today, The Symphony in America). He has also written on critical responses to the music of Debussy, the influence of Vincent d'Indy on French symphonic development, the French organ symphony, and the symphonies of Arthur Honegger. He was the program annotator for the 2001 Bard Music Festival, *Debussy and His World*, held at Bard College and Lincoln Center. Professor Hart has taught music history at Northern Illinois University since 1996. He teaches undergraduate and graduate surveys in all periods of Western music history, as well as studies of music from 1945 to today, American music, and opera literature.
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