2015 Meeting Schedule
Annual Meeting of the
NYS-SL Chapter of AMS
1-3 May 2015
Accolade East
York University
Toronto, ON
FRIDAY, MAY 1
4:00 p.m. Registration
Martin Family Student Lounge, 219 Accolade East
5:00 Opening Presentation on Hubert Parry’s Judith:
5:00 Jeremy Dibble, Durham University
‘From ‘Prometheus’ to ‘Judith’: Parry’s choral odyssey 1880-1888
5:30 Stephanie Martin, York University
Judith's North American Premiere
6:00 Reception
SATURDAY, MAY 2
8:30 a.m. Registration, coffee and refreshments
I. CLASSICISM AND RELIGION IN THE EARLY ITALIAN BAROQUE
9:00 Barbara Swanson, Dalhousie University
Lyres, Laments, and Plainchants: Vincenzo Galilei’s Staging of Musical Antiquities
9:30 Roseen Giles, University of Toronto
Jesuit Spirituality and the Fate of Carissimi’s Oratorios
II. MUSIC, EMPIRE AND ALTERITY
10:00 Jacek Blaszkiewicz, Eastman School of Music “Monster Concerts:” Music and Monumentality at the 1855 Paris Universal Exposition
10:30 Kimberly Francis, University of Guelph
French Modernist Women and the Music of India
11:00 Break
III. MUSIC AND TECHNOLOGY
11:15 Amy Gajadhar, York University:
An Iconic Object from Two Worlds: The Player-Piano as a Mediator
11:45 Daniel Robinson, University of Buffalo, SUNY
A Problem With the Historiography of Recorded Sound: The Hidden History of Optical Sound, and Walter Ruttmann’s “Study in Sound-Montage,” Wochenende (1930)
12:15 p.m. LUNCH on site
IV. 1:30 LISE WAXER MEMORIAL LECTURE
Vincent Benitez (Penn State): Messiaen and Improvisation
V. ROCKING THE BRITS
2:30 Annika Borrmann, York University
Collective Individualism: The Frankfurt Group and Modernism
3:00 Durrell Bowman, Independent Scholar
Classical Styles and Sources in Early Progressive Rock Music by Genesis, 1970-73
Break, 3:30-4:00
VI. MUSIC AND POLITICS
4:00 Alessia Macaluso, York University
The Exile of Innocence: Fascist Disenchantment and the Music of Goffredo Petrassi
4:30 Paulo Bottas, Université de Montréal
Antonio Carlos Jobim’s Sinfonia da Alvorada: An Expression of Brazilian Modernist Identity through Ethnic Integration
5:00 Annual General Meeting, with REFRESHMENTS
Recommended: Musicians in Ordinary concert, "In stile moderno", Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton Avenue, Yorkville, 8pm.
Pubs and restaurants nearby. Easy TTC from York.
SUNDAY, MAY 3
9:30 a.m. Registration, coffee & refreshments.
VII. CARL ORFF, BAUHAUS AND BEYOND
PANEL Kirsten Yri, Wilfrid Laurier University, and Andrew Kohler, University of Michigan: Deriding Authority and Sexual Mores in Carl Orff’s Trionfo di Afrodite and Die Bernauerin
10.00 Kirsten Yri: Wedding Rituals and the Expression of Love in Orff’s Trionfo di Afrodite
10.30 Andrew Kohler: The Equation of Sexual Repression and Tyranny in Carl Orff’s Die Bernauerin
11:00 Austin Clarkson, Professor Emeritus, York University
“Other echoes inhabit the garden”: On Imagination, Interiority and the Re-enchantment of Mind
VIII. CREATION AND MYTH IN WEBER AND WAGNER
11: 30 Amanda Lalonde, Independent Scholar
Weber’s Der erste Ton and Creation Through Music
12:00 p.m. Robert Gauldin, Professor Emeritus, Eastman School of Music
The Vikings’ +ULFBERH+T and Siegfried’s Nothung: A Sword from the Gods?
12:30 Announcement of winning student paper
York portion of the conference ends; delegates free to travel downtown for:
3:00 Performance of Parry’s oratorio Judith at Koerner Hall
