Joint Meeting of the Allegheny, Capital, and Mid-Atlantic Chapters of the American Musicological Society

October 5-6, 2018

University of Delaware
Newark, DE

FRIDAY, OCT. 5

12:00 PM- 12:45 PM Check-in

12:45 PM Welcome

Session 1: Modernisms (1:00 PM – 3:00 PM)

  • Benjamin Safran, “‘Alt-Classical’ Music and Environmentalism in Ludovico Einaudi’s Elegy for the Arctic“
  • Kate Doyle, “Suchness, Immediacy, and Attention: Lucia Dlugoszewski’s Experimental Compositions for American Modern Dance”
  • William Robin, “Lining Up the All-Stars: Bang on a Can and the American New-Music Ensemble in the ’90s”
  • Sarah Teetsel, “Misunderstandings of 4’33″”

Session 2: Opera (3:15 PM – 4:45 PM)

  • Sabrina Clarke, “‘Where Everything is Silent’: Time, Memory, and Fate in Dallapiccola’s Il prigioniero (1948)”
  • Matthew Gatti, “Inside/Outside: Representations of Madness in The Who’s Quadrophenia”
  • Devin Burke, “Singing Sacrilege: Political Idolatry in the Operatic Spectacles of Vienna, 1661-1689”

5:00 PM – 6:30 PM Dinner Break

Session 3: Panel and Lecture-Recital (6:45 PM – 8:15 PM)

The Music Collection of Eliza Eichelberger Ridgely of Hampton (1803-1867): New Insights Into Early American Music

  • Basil Considine, “The Music Collection of the Ridgelys of Hampton: Overview, History, and Sourcing”
  • Elissa Edwards, “More than a ‘Lady with a Harp’: The Musical Activities of Eliza Eichelberger Ridgely (1803-1867)”
  • Elissa Edwards (soprano), Basil Considine (piano), Lecture-Recital: Music from the Ridgely Family Music Collection

SATURDAY, OCT. 6

Session 4: Branding/Image Formation (9:00 AM – 10:30 AM)

  • Samuel Brannon, “Marketing Music in Renaissance Rome”
  • Keenan A. Reesor, “From Reactionary to Visionary: Rachmaninoff’s Soviet Rebranding”
  • Julia Kuhlman, “When Nobody Wins: The Canon of Competition in the Pulitzer Prize”

Session 5: Panel On Adjunct/Contingent Faculty (10:45 AM – 12:15 PM)

  • Zoe Cohen, Basil Considine, Daniel Pieczkolon, Mark Rimple (tentative)

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Lunch

1:45 PM – 2:15 PM Business Meetings

Session 6: Song/Text Settings (2:20 PM – 3:50 PM)

  • Andrew H. Weaver, “Who Sees the Erlkönig? Focalization and Meaning in Two Settings of Goethe’s Poem”
  • Murray Steib, “Mangle the Text or Adapt the Music? A Sixteenth-century Solution to Texting”
  • Jule Streety, “Redefining the Second New England School: The Impact of Helen Hopekirk’s American Tours”

Session 7: Historical Pedagogies (4:00 PM – 5:00 PM)

  • Jessica H. Grimmer, “Music Education in the Capital of the Resistance: The Conservatoire de Lyon (1940–1944)”
  • Susan Weiss, “Turning Wheels: Volvelles as Kinesthetic Aids for Learning and Navigating Music”