AMS-NE: New England Chapter of the AMS

AMS-NE Spring Chapter Meeting Saturday, April 21st, 2018 University of Massachusetts at Amherst Room N610, Life Science Laboratories Building (LSL) Amherst, MA **Will be updated with bios and abstracts as they become available.** 9:15 - 9:45 a.m.  Refreshments and Registration Morning Session: French identity, Identifying as French 9:45 a.m.                Welcome 
 10:00 a.m. "American Perspectives on the Fauré Centennial, 1945: The Writings of Aaron Copland, Elliott Carter, and Irving Fine” Heather DeSavage (University of Connecticut) Heather de Savage holds a Ph.D. in music history and theory from the University of Connecticut. Her primary research considers Gabriel Fauré’s American reception, with a focus on activities in Boston; she has presented portions of this research, and her work on biblical exegesis in the late motets of Heinrich Schütz, at numerous conferences. Publications include items for the Nineteenth-Century Music Review ,

  AMS-NE Winter Chapter Meeting Saturday, February 4th, 2017 Slosberg Recital Hall Brandeis University Waltham, MA 9:30-10:00       Refreshments and Registration Morning Session: Gateways to Perception 10:00               Welcome 10:05                John Klaess (Yale University),  Music and Race in the Emergence of the "Urban Contemporary" Format, 1977-1987 In the early 1980s, radio industry commentators noted the arrival of a new station format, suggestively tit led "Urban Contemporary." Stations employing this format--a mix of classic and new R & B, disco, and fun k, book -ended by weekend rap programs--rose to prominence in several major markets.  By 1982, two Urban Contemporary stations competed for highest-rated station in New York City. Yet commentators could not a gree on a definition of Urban Contemporary, nor on what c riteria should be used to articulate such a