AMS-NE: New England Chapter of the AMS

AMS-NE Winter Chapter Meeting Saturday, February 24th, 2018 Lyons Hall, rm. 423  Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA Photo Source: https://www.bc.edu/offices/its/support/mts/classroomsupport/classrooms/lyons.html DIRECTIONS PARKING CAMPUS MAP 8:45 - 9:15 a.m. Refreshments and Registration Morning Session: The politics of music’s transmission 9:15 a.m. Welcome 9:20 a.m. "Hannibal Lokumbe’s One Land, One River, One People as Political Resistance”   Benjamin Safran (Temple University) Hannibal Lokumbe’s identity markers and presentation make him the ultimate outsider within the classical music world. Born in the segregated south as Marvin Peterson and known mononymously as Hannibal, during a residency with the Philadelphia Orchestra he has so far created music for black churches, prisoners, and neuro-diverse communities. Unlike some of his other projects, his large-scale work One Land, One River, One People appears on the surface to...

AMS-NE Chapter Meeting Saturday, September 28, 2013 University of Massachusetts Amherst Erinn Knyt, " New Instruments, New Sounds, and New Musical Laws:   Ferruccio Busoni, Edgard Varèse, and the “Music of the Future”" The disparity between Edgard Varèse’s early European compositions, described in Romantic or Impressionistic terms by those who heard them, and his experimental American compositions has contributed to the widespread assumption that Varèse reinvented himself after encountering the sights and sounds of New York. When composers are named as sources of influence, Richard Strauss and Claude Debussy are most frequently mentioned. Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky sometimes follow. While these composers undoubtedly influenced Varèse, especially with regard to his harmonic choices and use of episodic structures, they did not provide models for more characteristic features of his experimental compositional style: rhythmic simultaneity, expansion of the tonal...

AMS-NE Fall Chapter Meeting Saturday, October 3, 2009 University of Connecticut Presenters and Abstracts (Archived) Hilary Poriss, "Prima Donnas and the Performance of Altruism" If biographers of nineteenth- and twentieth-century prima donnas are to be believed, the ranks of famous divas were once filled with an abundance of philanthropists willing to donate huge sums to worthy causes. A comparison of their accounts, however, sheds doubt on this image, for the same story continually reappears: encountering a wretched pauper (typically an orphan or an old man), the diva instinctually recognizes their intense inner beauty, and in an emotional frenzy, hands them whatever is needed (money, clothes, and funds for housing and education). That variations of this narrative appeared regularly throughout biographies of Malibran, Lind, Pasta, and Grisi, as well as many others, indicates that there is far more to this story than meets the eye. In this study, ...