Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society
Saturday, April 07, 2018
Youngstown State University
Youngstown, OH
Program:
8:30 AM Registration and Refreshments
9:00 AM Opening Remarks by Chapter President, Michael Baumgartner
Session 1
Chair: Mark Durrand (The University of Akron)
- Emily Theobald (University of Florida), “Sonorism and Urban Soundscape in Penderecki’s Pittsburgh Overture (1967)
- Ryan Harrison (Ohio University School of Interdisciplinary Arts), “Perception and Ecocentric Performance Spaces: Environment in Matthew Burtner’s Aukslaq and John Luther Adams’s Inuksuit“
Session 2
Chair: TBD
- Bethany Goldberg (Youngstown State University) “Native Songbirds Take Flight: American Singers on the Italian Opera Stage During the Civil War”
- Stephanie Ruozzo (Case Western Reserve University) “Many a New Day Will Dawn: Changing Models of Integration in Broadway’s ‘New Golden Age'”
- Christopher Lynch (Duquesne University) “The Creation of the Operatic Museum in New York City: Taxes and Figaro at the Met in 1940″
12:30 PM Lunch Break
2:30 PM Business Meeting
Session 3
Chair: TBD
- Kirsten L. Speyer Carithers (The Ohio State University/Capital University), “Hacking the Avante Garde: Cardew, Experimentalism, and the Culture Industry”
- Laura Schwartz (The University of Pittsburgh). “Confessions from the Killing Jar: ‘Coming Out’ as Reclamation and Selfcare”
- Paige Zalman (West Virginia University), “Performing Gender, Music, and Witchcraft in Early Modern England”