AMS-NE: New England Chapter of the AMS

MINI-CONFERENCE: LATEST RESEARCH SHINES NEW LIGHT ON THE FIFTH AND EIGHTH SYMPHONIES OF BEETHOVEN

We are lucky enough to boast a wide variety and great number of musicological happenings in the region of our chapter. Unfortunately, there have been an increasing number of conflicts between institutional conferences and chapter meetings, as well as meetings of related societies. With an eye toward avoiding these conflicts, I have established a calendar (embedded below).  I will maintain the calendar which will have the chapter meetings of the New England Conference of Music Theorists, New England Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology, as well as our own. I will include departmental conferences and symposia as I hear of them. So, I need your help! If you are scheduling a musicology conference, please check for conflicts on this calendar. More importantly, if you are hosting a musicology (or related) conference, PLEASE e-mail ams.newengland@gmail.com ASAP. I will be happy to add it to the calendar. I'm hoping this will foster increased participation in the chapter, as well...

Posted on behalf of the Beethoven Research Center at Boston University --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Beethoven Research Center at Boston University presents Beethoven's String Quartet in A Minor, op. 132: New Perspectives, A Symposium, Open Workshop, Public Lecture, and Performance April 8-9, 2014 William Kinderman, Professor of Music and Germanic Studies, University of Illinois David Levy, Professor of Music & Associate Dean for Faculty Governance, Wake Forest University Lewis Lockwood, Distinguished Senior Scholar; Co-Director, Beethoven Research Center Jeremy Yudkin, Professor of Music; Co-Director, Beethoven Research Center Peter Zazofsky, Professor of Violin, Muir String Quartet Tuesday, April 8, 2-5 PM  The Marshall Room, 855 Commonwealth Ave. SYMPOSIUM ON OP. 132 with William Kinderman, David Levy, Jeremy Yudkin, and Lewis Lockwood Wednesday, April 9, 12-2 PM  The Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth A...

Note: If you attend a symposium or conference in New England, please consider submitting a short report for publication on this blog. You may send your submission to rebecca dot marchand at gmail dot com. ------- Beyond Notation: An Earle Brown Symposium January 18 & 19, 2013 Northeastern University I'm glad to say it was teaching that kept me from attending the first day of Beyond Notation: An Earle Brown Symposium at Northeastern University, rather than some less noble excuse. I did attend many of the events on Saturday, however, and the day concluded with an extraordinary concert by the Callithumpian Consort . I offer a few reflections here, but this is by no means an exhaustive report on all events of the symposium, nor even all the events I attended.  Richard Toop's keynote offerings (introduced via an audio recording of Toop and then read by Rebecca Kim) on lyricism in Brown's "Centering" (1973) gave me a deep appreciation for Ethan Woo...