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 Winter Chapter Meeting Saturday, February 19, 2011 Wellesley College Erinn Knyt, "Ferruccio Busoni and the Absolute in Music: Nature, Form, and Idée" “Absolute music! What the lawgivers mean by this is perhaps remotest of all from the absolute in music.” With these enigmatic words, Ferruccio Busoni opened his second aphoristic essay in The Sketch of a New Aesthetic of Music. Although he could be called an advocate of absolute music because of his frequent description of music as “absolute” and his discussion of music as consisting of pure tones found in the vibrating universe, Busoni nevertheless developed idiosyncratic theories about the term, its usage, and its ideal manifestation in Tonkunst that remain largely unexamined in scholarly literature. True, Carl Dahlhaus noted Busoni’s use of the concept to refer to music unconstrained by traditional forms, but this is merely one aspect of Busoni’s views, which also allowed for and included the visual and explicit ...