AMS-NE: New England Chapter of the AMS

AMS-NE Spring Chapter Meeting Saturday, April 21st, 2018 University of Massachusetts at Amherst Room N610, Life Science Laboratories Building (LSL) Amherst, MA **Will be updated with bios and abstracts as they become available.** 9:15 - 9:45 a.m.  Refreshments and Registration Morning Session: French identity, Identifying as French 9:45 a.m.                Welcome 
 10:00 a.m. "American Perspectives on the Fauré Centennial, 1945: The Writings of Aaron Copland, Elliott Carter, and Irving Fine” Heather DeSavage (University of Connecticut) Heather de Savage holds a Ph.D. in music history and theory from the University of Connecticut. Her primary research considers Gabriel Fauré’s American reception, with a focus on activities in Boston; she has presented portions of this research, and her work on biblical exegesis in the late motets of Heinrich Schütz, at numerous conferences. Publications include items for...

AMS-NE Chapter Meeting Saturday, May 3, 2014 Providence College (RI) Ji Yeon Lee, “Tristan und Isolde and Francesca da Rimini: An Intertextual Reading” Wagner’s· Tristan und Isolde ·(1865) and Zandonai’s· Francesca da Rimini ·(1914) share important musical and dramatic similarities. Wagner and Zandonai’s compositional languages are both characterized by chromatic harmony and goal-driven mobility, although the latter’s approach is naturally more radical. Both plots portray illegitimate romance and uncontrollable passion leading the protagonists to fatal ends; furthermore,·Francesca’s narrative—drawn from “Inferno” of Dante’s La Divina Commedia—invokes·Tristan at key points. In Act 1, a minstrel recounts the Tristan story; “Isolde” is mentioned during the ladies-in-waiting scene in Act 3, as an analogy for Francesca; in the same act, Paolo’s “Daylight is my enemy, the night is my friend” recalls phrases from the Act 2 love duet of Tristan . · Beyond surface similarities,...

Here is the Program for the Spring Chapter Meeting. Please note that elections will be held during the business meeting. Nominations will be taken from the floor for President Program Chair AMS Chapter Representative AMS Student Representative We will also be voting on the chapter bylaws.  Any chapter member in good standing (dues paid for the year) may vote at the meeting. The draft is posted at the chapter Google group and the open comment period ends tomorrow, 4/25: https://groups.google.com/d/forum/ams-newengland PROGRAM AMS-NE Spring Chapter Meeting Saturday, May 3, 2014 Ryan Concert Hall Smith Center for the Arts at Providence College 9:45-10:15 a.m. Refreshments and Registration Morning Session 10:15 a.m. Welcome 10:20 a.m. Tristan und Isolde and Francesca da Rimini : An Intertextual Reading    Ji Yeon Lee (CUNY Graduate Center) 11:00 a.m. Plorer, Gemir, Crier : Musical Mourning and the Composer Jane Daphne Hatter (McGill Universit...

AMS-NE Chapter Meeting Saturday, February 2, 2013 Tufts University Louis Epstein, "Triple Threat: Ida Rubinstein as Patron, Impresario, and Director" Between 1928 and 1934, Ida Rubinstein and her Ballets Rubinstein presented four ambitious seasons of original works in Paris, filling a gap left by the demise of the Ballets Russes and defying the economic downturn that hobbled other cultural institutions. Like the Ballets Russes, whose opulet, exoticist performances of Cléopâtre and Schéhérezade in 1909 and 1910 had made Rubinstein a household name, the Ballets Rubinstein featured mainly foreign performers and visual artists in big budget spectacles that married dance, mime, music, and declamation. Rubinstein solicited musical scores almost exclusively from contemporary French composers. Rubinstein – who funded, managed, and directed her productions – offered exceptionally lucrative commissions to Ravel, Stravinsky, Auric, Milhaud, Honegger, Sauguet, and Ibert...

Please join us at Distler Hall, Perry and Marty Granoff Music Center at Tufts University this Saturday for the Winter 2013 Meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society. Refreshments begin at 9:45am. In addition to a wide variety of paper topics, this meeting will include the option of visiting the Lilly Library and Ritter Special Collections during lunch; tours are available, and food and drink are permitted. Directions and Parking info can be found here . ---- Program: 9:45-10:15 Refreshments and Registration Morning Session 10:15 Welcome 10:20 Triple Threat: Ida Rubinstein as Patron, Impresario, and Director (Louis Epstein, Harvard University) 11:00 Music and the Pirates of Madagascar (Basil Considine, Boston University) 11:40 Copland, Mahler, and the American Sound (Matthew Mugmon, Harvard University) 12:20-2:20 Lunch Break (The Lilly Library and Ritter Special Collections (downstairs) are open to visitors during this time; tours...