[AMS-announce] CONF: Lyrica Society at MLA, Philadelphia, Dec. 2006

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The Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations will be hosting two sessions at 
the Modern Language Association's conference in Philadelphia later this month.  
AMS members who will be attending will be interested in the following:

Re-Sounding the Renaissance
session 616 Friday, December 29th
9-10:15 PM Philadelphia Marriott, room 309
Three papers on Renaissance music and later music inspired by the Renaissance

Opera in the Age of Enlightenment
session 739 Saturday, December 30th
1:45-3 PM  Loews, Tubman room
Three papers on 18th century opera

Also of interest, although not sponsored by Lyrica:

Mission Impossible: Literary Texts That Should Never Have Made the Operatic 
Stage but Did
session 209 Thursday, December 28th
12 noon-1:15 PM Philadelphia Marriott, room 402-403
Short presentations and discussion of the topic of turning literature into 
opera.

Hope to see you there.

Jeff Dailey
Lyrica MLA Music Liaison
DrJSDailey at aol.com