AMS-NE: New England Chapter of the AMS

For those of you coming from Boston who might wish to take public/mass transportation, the possibilities are rather limited in terms of getting there in time for the start of the meeting. The 6:40am Amtrak train out of South Station will get you to Union Station in New Haven at 9:07am. There are no Megabus or Greyhound/PeterPan busses in the morning, from what I can tell. The following links provide all transportation-related information.  
http://to.yale.edu/parking-map (parking map)** 

http://to.yale.edu/train (train/shuttle info) The meeting will be held at Sudler Recital Hall at Yale School of Music: http://music.yale.edu/concerts/venues/sudler/ We look forward to seeing you there! **4/28 UPDATE**: From the Yale Parking Office: ""The Grove St garage is not open on the weekends. You can park in lot 16 at Whitney and Humphrey St for free parking on the weekends. You can can also park in lot 78 and 78W which is near the Payne Whitney gym."

AMS-NE Spring Chapter Meeting May 2, 2015 Sudler Hall Yale University 9:45-10:15  Refreshments and Registration Morning Session 10:15   Welcome 10:20   Assimilation, Gypsies, and Jews in Meyerbeer's  Ein Feldlager in Schlesien                    Laura Stokes (Indiana University / Brown University) ABSTRACT: Giacomo Meyerbeer was appointed General Music Director of the Berlin Royal Opera in June 1842. The recently ascended king Friedrich Wilhelm IV—who had an ambitious program to remake Berlin as a European cultural center—persuaded Meyerbeer to return after an absence of over three decades. Meyerbeer, who was Jewish, was appointed music director of the Royal Opera at a time of political challenge for Prussia’s Jewish community: that same year, Friedrich Wilhelm IV proposed that the Jewish community be separated into its own Estate, attempting to counter decades of assimilati...

  CARPOOL INFO FOR MAY 2 Spring Chapter Meeting at Yale Carpool info was sent out over the chapter mailing list and the chapter Facebook group. If you are interested in carpooling and did not receive either of these notifications, please e-mail ams dot newengland at gmail dot com AMS-NE CONFERENCE CALENDAR If you haven't had a chance to check it out yet, please visit the new Conference Calendar --an attempt to avoid scheduling conflicts between schools and organizations in the New England area and the AMS-NE Chapter. If you are scheduling a musicology-related conference or symposium, please do check out this calendar to avoid conflicts with chapter meetings and other major conferences. Please send any musicology-related events to ams dot newengland at gmail dot com  to be sure that your event is listed on the calendar. You can also view the calendar at the  AMS-NE blog: http://ams-ne.blogspot.com/ HOSTS NEEDED!! We still need hosts for our Fall 2015 and Winter 201...

Call for Papers:  Spring 2015 Meeting of the AMS New England Chapter Yale University 2 May 2015   The Spring 2015 meeting of the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society will be held on  Saturday, 2 May 2015 at Yale University. The Program Committee invites proposals of up to 300 words for 30-minute papers and for roundtable sessions. All abstracts are subject to blind review, and submissions from faculty, independent scholars, and graduate students are all encouraged and welcome. Abstracts should be submitted by  Tuesday, 31 March 2015  via email to jsholes at  bu.edu  or by mail to Jacquelyn Sholes, AMS-NE Program Chair, Department of Musicology & Ethnomusicology, School of Music, College of Fine Arts, Boston University, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215. Please refer to the AMS abstract guidelines: “Proposals should represent the presentation as fully as possible. A successful proposal ...

(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 ...