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MEETING: Northeastern University-April 20

AMS-NE Spring Chapter Meeting
Saturday, April 20, 2013
217 Ryder Hall
Northeastern University


9:45-10:15 Refreshments and Registration


Morning Session
10:15 Welcome

10:20 Topics of Consumer Identity in the 1780s: Pleyel’s op. 1 and Mozart’s op. 10 String Quartets

                 Melanie Lowe (Vanderbilt University)

11:00 “Sing with Me a Sweet and New Song”: Chromatic Tournament in Lasso’s “Opus One”

                 Lester Zhuqing Hu (Amherst College)

11:40 Regret in Gombert’s Mass for the Coronation of Charles V

                 Eric Rice (University of Connecticut)


12:20-2:20 Lunch Break


2:20-2:50 Business Meeting (Elections)


Afternoon Session
2:50 “Always is Always Forever”: The Musical Trajectory of the Process Church of the Final Judgement

                 John Forrestal (Boston University)

3:30 Pop at the Symphony: The Reciprocal Influence of Philip Glass and David Bowie

                 David Ferrandino (University at Buffalo, SUNY)

4:10 Staging Catfish Row in the Soviet Union: Porgy and Bess as “Cultural Exchange”

                 Michael Uy (Harvard University)


4:50 Refreshments



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