AMS-NE: New England Chapter of the AMS

(cross-posted) As most of you are aware, the public transit options for Saturday will be extremely limited. Jeannette​ called the MBTA yesterday to confirm: The green line is closed west of Kenmore Sq, so the public transportation options are the 57 bus (which goes along Comm Ave) and the 47 bus, which runs from Central Sq across the BU bridge. I am not hopeful that the situation will change, as Monday commuting is the priority for the MBTA. Please be sure to check http://www.mbta.com/winter/ for the most up-to-date information. Parking is available in Agganis Arena, 925 Commonwealth Ave, entrance off of Buick Street. We are supposed to get more snow, but we are planning on holding the meeting as scheduled. Any cancellations will be posted here, the Google mailing list, and the Facebook group.

Student/Early Career Informal Lunch Discussion : If you would like to participate (either as a student or a mentor!!) in an informal lunch discussion centering on student/early career related issues, please contact Jeannette Jones (jonesj@bu.edu) by no later than Feb 20  (the day before our meeting). Directions and Parking to Boston University (all subject to updated snow information) The conference will be held in the College of Fine Arts at BU, 855 Commonwealth Avenue. On the T: the B-Green line's BU-West stop is directly in front of the building. Bus: the 57 bus runs along Commonwealth Avenue. Parking: The closest available paid parking lot is at the Agganis Arena at Boston University, 925 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215 Free two-hour street parking is available in some of the neighborhood streets of Brookline surrounding BU. There is also Boston two-hour metered parking on Commonwealth Ave and Brookline two-hour metered parking on some of the side-streets direct...

AMS-NE Winter Chapter Meeting Saturday, February 21, 2015 Marshall Room, College of Fine Arts Boston University 10:00-10:35  Refreshments and Registration Morning Session 10:35   Welcome 10:40     “As Obscure and Unintelligible as the Warbling of Larks and Linnets”: Latent Agendas in C. P. E. Bach’s C-Minor Trio, Wq. 161/1 (H.579) Yonatan Bar-Yoshafat (Cornell University) ABSTRACT: Ever since its publication in 1751, C. P. E. Bach’s famous program trio (‘Sanguineus und Melancholicus’) has generated much debate. A quintessential example of eighteenth-century dialogue-in-tone, the work nonetheless received mixed reviews and Bach refrained from repeating it. It would be unfair to pass judgment on Bach’s contemporaries, however, since the work is not devoid of ambiguities. And yet, with only one notable exception (Mersmann, 1917), most modern reviewers tend to take Bach’s program at face-value, and interpret ...