Allegheny Chapter of the American Musicological Society

Saturday, March 25, 2023

University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA

10:00–12:00 AM Session 1

  • Matthew Wood (Louisiana State University), “Perpetual Purgatory: Lamennais’s influence on the philosophy and music of Franz Liszt”
  • Ryan M. Prendergast (Carnegie Mellon University), “Richard Strauss, Count Seebach, and the Rosenkavalier Dispute Reconsidered”
  • Miranda Sousa (University of Pittsburgh), “There is no Audience Without Ladies: Gendered Participation in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janiero Concert Culture (1860–1900)”
  • Diogo Salmeron Carvalho (Marywood University), “‘Open the Bruise Up’: Identity and Memory in Steve Reich’s Music”

12:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM Keynote Address

  • Mark Burford (R.P. Wollenburg Professor of Music, Reed College), “Charles H. Pace and the Sound and Institutions of the Early Gospel Movement”

2:00–2:30 PM Chapter Business Meeting

3:30 PM Ceremony in honor of Charles and Frankie Pace

5:00 PM Pace Exhibit and Reception

7:00 PM Concert featuring the Heritage Gospel Choir and Dr. Alton Merrell

Ebenezer Baptist Church Thanks are extended to Megan Woller, Christopher Lynch, Anna Stephan-Robinson, members of the Program Committee, the University of Pittsburgh Library System, the Historic Hill Institute, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Dr. Herbert V.R.P. Jones, Dr. Alton Merrell, the American Musicological Society, the Center for American Music, the Hill District Community Engagement Center, Lower Hill Redevelopment, and Dr. Kimberly C. Ellis for their work in organizing today’s events.