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

University of Delaware
October 5-6, 2018

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FRIDAY, OCT. 5

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

Welcome (12:45 PM)

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”

*Dinner break (5:00 PM – 6:30 PM)

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)

*Lunch (12:30 PM – 1:30 PM)

Business Meetings (1:45 PM – 2:15 PM)

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”