WINTER 2022 CHAPTER MEETING (Virtual) - Saturday, February 5 (Brandeis University)

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 (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

12:30PM-1:45PM Lunch Break (with the option to socialize/network virtually)

1:45-2:00PM Chapter Business Meeting

2:00-4:00PM Afternoon Session (chaired by Anna Valcour, Brandeis University)

“‘Comme rousignol en chantant’: Animality and Anthropomorphization in a 13th Century Devotional Song”

Áine Palmer (Yale University)

“Puccini’s Last Act: Finishing Turandot”

Deborah Burton (Boston University)

“‘…a phenomenon that cannot be explained’: The Queer Enigma of Martha Argerich”

Alexander Hardan (Brown University)

“Meredith Willson and the Reconciliation of Cultural Hierarchy in The Music Man”

James Delorey (University of Southern California)

Comments

Fall 2018 Chapter Meeting (Saturday, September 29 ECSU)

AMS-NE Fall Chapter Meeting  September 29, 2018  Eastern Connecticut State University --Fine Arts Instructional Building Abstracts and Bios are posted as they become available. Directions/Parking/Food Info now available HERE . 8:45-9:15 Refreshments and Registration Morning Session  9:15 Welcome 9:20 The Duty of the Musicians: Resistance Tactics and Lived Practices of le Front national des musiciens (1940-1944) - Julie VanGyzen (University of Pittsburgh) Following the invasion and subsequent occupation of France by Nazi Germany, musicians Elsa Barraine, Louis Durey, and Roger Désormière formed the resistance organization le Front national des musiciens (FNM). The main goals of the FNM was to promote the music of French composers, protect young French musicians from deportation, and to distribute an underground newspaper titled Musiciens d’Aujourd’hui . While the intent of Musiciens d’Aujourd’hui was to arm readers with a variety of resistant tactics, it primarily urges

Year-End Review: AMS-NE in 2015

As the year draws to a close, I thought I'd take the opportunity to summarize and comment upon chapter activities and events that have marked this past year for us in the AMS-NE. We had a very successful Winter meeting at Boston University on February 21, 2015, which was not only well-attended, but featured particularly good feedback and questions from the audience. I make special note of this as one of the people in attendance that day is no longer with us--Dr. Joel Sheveloff, who left us on November 8, 2015. There have been many beautiful remembrances of Dr. Sheveloff, but I include one from chapter member Fred Thornton at the end of this post. I hope you will take the time to read it, as we lost someone who was an inspiration, mentor, and friend to so many in our chapter. Early May 2015 brought us to a meeting at Yale , which, despite an unexpected campus-wide power failure, was a lively and enlightening gathering! We look forward to being back in Connecticut at The Hartt S

Bios and Abstracts (AMS-NE only)

The following is an alphabetical list of AMS-NE presenters , abstracts, and bios for the Joint Meeting of the NECMT and AMS-NE on April 8-9 at MIT, program here . If information is missing, it is because it is not yet available. Melody Chapin (Tufts University) Opera and Modernity in Brazil: Camargo Guarnieri and Mário de Andrade's Pedro Malazarte The ethnomusicologist Gerard Béhague defined Brazilian modernism as coinciding with Brazilian nationalism whereby a musical brasilidade was developed by shedding European influences and legacies. Yet a modernist work such as the one-act comic opera Pedro Malazarte (1932) offers a different account of early twentieth-century Brazilian national style. This paper argues that the composer Camargo Guarnieri and the librettist Mário de Andrade hybridized, rather than rejected, European heritage with national musical traditions. Their one-act comic opera aspires to bring the traditional character of Malazarte out

AMS-NE: New England Chapter of the AMS

Search This Blog