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Chapter Meeting: College of the Holy Cross, September 29, 2012

Our next chapter meeting will take place at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA in the Brooks Concert Hall.

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Accessibility Note:  The walk from parking area to the Brooks Music Center involves a healthy number of stairs. If waking stairs presents a problem for any meeting attendee, campus security can arrange a ride from the parking area to conference site. The meeting site itself is completely accessible. Please call Campus Security at: (508) 793-2224

Below is schedule and list of papers.
We hope to see you there!

9:45-10:15 Refreshments and Registration Morning Session

10:15 Welcome

10:20 Haydn’s L’incontro improvviso: Deceitful Dervishes, Greedy Servants, and the Meta-
Performance of Alla Turca Style
Erin Jerome (Brandeis University)

11:00 How Opéra-Comique Became French, or, Untangling the Origins of Revolutionary Opera
Julia I. Doe (Yale University)

11:40 More Roman than “Gregorian,” More Frankish than “Old Roman”: What a Newly
Rediscovered Italian Source Reveals about the Roman and Frankish Character of Chant Transmission in the Mid-Ninth Century
Daniel DiCenso (College of the Holy Cross)

12:20-1:45 Lunch Break

1:45-2:00 Business Meeting

Afternoon Session

2:00 Schubert’s Gretchen Songs and the Eternal Feminine
Daniel Libin (Rutgers University)

2:40 Myth and Meta-Drama: Mahler’s Eighth Symphony
Caroline Kita (College of the Holy Cross)

3:20 Ferruccio Busoni and the New England Conservatory: Pedagogue in the Making
Erinn Knyt (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

4:00 Form, Interaction, and Implication in the Classic Quartet of John Coltrane
Brian Levy (New England Conservatory)

4:40 Refreshments

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