AMS-NE: New England Chapter of the AMS

Hosted by Brandeis University If you plan to participate in this virtual meeting, please register (for free) in advance at this link: https://brandeis.wufoo.com/forms/m1vzze2b1xkz2we/   After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the  Chapter meeting on February 5, 2022 (including the Zoom link for the meeting).  Program (all times listed below are EDT)  PDF with program and abstracts here Abstracts and bios available here 10:45-11:00AM Welcoming Remarks  11:00AM-12:30PM Morning Session (chaired by Chloe Danitz, Brandeis University)    “Navigating a Changing Music Business: Giulio Briccialdi and the Musicians’ Response to  Shifting Demands”  Samantha Tripp (Tufts University)  “Digital Amati: Structure and Interpretation of Classical Stringed Instruments” Harry Mairson (Brandeis University)  “‘Just to Be and Dance ’: Jerome Robbins, J.S. Bach, and Late Style”  Erinn Knyt (Univer...

LOCATION at Amherst College Center for Humanistic Inquiry (CHI) Robert Frost Library,  2nd floor 61 Quadrangle Amherst, MA 01002  The entrance to the Library is from Quadrangle Drive (south end of the building).  More info regarding parking HERE Details as to specifics (hall/rooms, parking) will be posted as they become available. Bios, photos, and abstracts are posted as available. -------------------- 9:45-10:15 Refreshments and Registration Morning Session 10:15 Welcome 10:20 From Poem to Dance via Music: Departures and Convergences in Jonathan Taylor’s Transfigured Night Nona Monahin (Mount Holyoke College) Richard Dehmel’s 1896 “Verklärte Nacht” (Transfigured Night), a poem centered on a crisis of confidence in a couple’s relationship, inspired composer Arnold Schoenberg’s string sextet of the same title (1899; arranged for string orchestra in 1917 and revised in 1943), which in turn inspired numerous choreographic versions. In this p...

AMS-NE Chapter Meeting Saturday, April 14, 2012 Mt. Holyoke College Monica Chieffo, "Maria’s Veils, Salome’s Machinery: The Dance Scene in Metropolis and Salome" Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) has been judged by critics and scholars as a hallmark in the history of cinema and as the site of contentious statements about modernity, such as the aestheticization of technology and overtly formulaic gender roles. At the center of this discourse is the figure of the female robot Maria. In his influential analysis of the film, Andreas Huyssen notes how the perspective of the camera lens coincides with the male gaze, suggesting that the robot is constructed and subsequently animated by male vision throughout the film narrative. The film’s five-minute dance sequence—wherein the robot Maria emerges from an ornate urn to dance for a room full of male dinner guests—is reduced therefore to an instance of male vision. Huyssen leaves out completely any discussion of the...