Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society

Saturday, April 17
Zoom Meeting

Program:

Opening Remarks by Allegheny Chapter President, Mark Durrand

10:30AM Session 1
Chair: Megan Woller (Gannon University)

  • Jon Churchill (Duke University), “It’s Not Lambkins Frisking At All: The Ruptured Discourse of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Pastoral Symphony”
  • Lacey Golaszewski (State University of New York at Fredonia and Medaille College), “From Ovid to Bourdieu: Canon, Genre, and the Othering of Winds in Western Art Music Scholarship”
  • Devon Osamu Tipp (University of Pittsburgh, Andrew W. Mellon Predoctoral Fellow in Music Theory/Composition), “Mamoru Fujieda’s Plant Language: Cultural Feedback and New Approaches to Traditional Japanese Instruments”

12:00 PM EST Lunch Break

1:00 PM Paper Session 2
Chair: Megan Woller (Gannon University)

  • César Leal (Sunderman Conservatory of Music, Gettysburg College),
    “Parisian View(s) of Black America in the fin-de-siècle Salon Culture”
  • Nate Ruechel (Florida State University), “Immigration Law as a Framework for Interpreting Aaron Copland’s Early Music”
  • Peter Graff (Denison University), “Reimagining Music for Radio Drama: Norman Corwin’s Dramatic Writing for the Columbia Workshop”

2:30PM Business Meeting