SPRING 2021 CHAPTER MEETING (Virtual) - Saturday, May 15, 2021

 For the full program with linked abstracts and bios, please click here.

Full abstracts and bios here. Registration info is at the bottom of this post.

AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY

NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER

Spring 2021 Meeting

Virtual Meeting hosted by University of Massachusetts Amherst

SATURDAY, MAY 15, 2020

Program (all times listed below are EDT)

 

10:15-10:30AM            Welcoming Remarks (ZOOM)

 

10:30AM-12:00PM      Morning Session (ZOOM)

•  “Reassessing Eichheim’s Oriental Music: Some Preliminary Remarks”
  Richard Mueller (Willington, Connecticut)
• “Monteverdi and Striggio’s Orfeo: Modern Music, for a Pre-modern Play”
  Joel Schwindt (Boston Conservatory at Berklee)
• “‘The soul of man is a limpid wave’: Liszt, Lamartine, and Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude”
  Andrew Haringer (Saint Anselm College) 

12:00PM-1:15PM         Lunch Break (with the option to gather virtually using REMO)

 

1:15-1:30PM                Chapter Business Meeting (including Chapter Elections) (ZOOM)

 

1:30-3:00PM                Afternoon Session (ZOOM)

• “In Search of the First Note: An Artistic Research Approach to Romantic Preluding Practices and Creative Agency at the Keyboard Today”
  Victoria Tzotzkova (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• “New Insights into the Fair Copy of the St. Matthew Passion”
  Mary Greer (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
• “Bridges of ‘Caravan’ and ‘Caravan’ Excursions: Travels with Mr. Ellington”
  Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith (Westfield State University)

3:00-4:30PM                Virtual Reception for Socializing and Networking (REMO)

If you plan to participate in this virtual meeting, please register (for free) in advance at this link:

https://umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwqdOigqD0jH9J9Xo1p1_p_l5IC9I2fTeUZ  

 

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Chapter meeting on May 15, 2021 (including the Zoom link for the meeting). 

A separate link and instructions will be circulated to registrants just before 15 May for networking via REMO during the lunch break and following the afternoon sessions. This is free to all registrants.