[AMS-announce] CONF: Forum on Music and Christian Scholarship, New Haven, March 2007

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Forum on Music & Christian Scholarship 
2007 Annual Meeting 
Friday and Saturday, March 9 and 10, 2007 
Yale University, Institute of Sacred Music 
www.fmcs.us 

PROGRAM 

Friday, March 9 

8:30 - 9:00     Continental Breakfast 

9:00 - 9:15     Welcome and Introductions (Markus Rathey, ISM) 

9:15 - 10:30    Concepts of Art and Religion I: Historical Perspectives 
Robin A. Leaver (Westminster Choir College): Concio et Cantio: The Counterpoint of Theology and Music in Lutheran Perceptions from Praetorius to Bach

Elizabeth Kramer (University of West Georgia): A Religion of Art? Music and the Divine in Early Nineteenth-Century Kunstreligion

10:30 - 10:45   Break 

10:45 - 12:30   Paradigm France: Society and Religious Discourse 
Lisa Hooper (Indiana University): The Religious Discourse of the Cantate Spirituelle in Versailles Education, 1708-1721 

Kristy Riggs (Columbia University): Exoticism Redefined in Berlioz's L'Enfance du Christ 

Catrina Flint de Médicis (McGill University): Joseph Pothier's Frozen Lips: Musical Ventriloquy and Nineteenth-Century Sacred Music Reform in France

12:30 - 2:00    Lunch Break 

2:00 - 3:15     Concurrent Sessions 
a) Analysis and Musical Meaning 
Edward Green (Manhattan School of Music): Mozart's Requiem, the Saturation of Chromatic Space, and the Theology of Death as Continuation

Christopher White (University of Kentucky): Analysis of Scriabin's Pseudo-Christian Forms: The Prolongation of Scriabin's "Mystic Chord" in the "White Mass" and "Black Mass" Sonatas 

b) Religion and Nation I 
Bogumila Mika (University of Silesia): Bogurodzica - Song to the Virgin 

Connie Lau (Stanford University): The Political and Religious Contexts of Luigi Cherubini's Requiem in C minor 

3:15 - 3:30     Break 

3:30 - 4:45     Concurrent Sessions 
a) Popular Music and the Sacred 
Kevin Holm-Hudson (University of Kentucky): Matisyahu: Proclaiming and Reclaiming the Psalms with Beats 

David H. Perkins (Vanderbilt University): Hell Yeah!: Pairing Southern Religion and Punk Aesthetics in the Construction of American Gothic Music

b) Religion and Nation II 
Eftychia Papanikolaou (Miami University): Religion and Nationalism in Franz Liszt's Hungarian Coronation Mass 

Daniel Grimminger (independent scholar): Faithful to the End: Pennsylvania Tune Books and German Ethnic Identity in Kirche and Singschule

4:45 - 5:00     Break 

5:00 - 6:30     Keynote: Thomas H. Troeger, Lantz Professor of Christian 
Communication (Yale Divinity School and Yale Institute of Sacred Music) 

6:30 - 7:30     Reception 

Saturday, March 10 

8:30 - 9:00     Continental Breakfast 

9:00 - 10:45    Concurrent Sessions 
a) Johann Sebastian Bach 
Stephen A. Crist (Emory University): Theology and Musical Conventions in the Arias of J. S. Bach 

Mark Peters (Trinity Christian College): A Woman's Voice in Sacred Baroque 
Music: Mariane von Ziegler as Cantata Librettist 

John Sall & Edward Latham (Temple University): Key Relationship and Musical Meaning in Bach's St John Passion 

b) Olivier Messiaen 
Christopher Dingle (Birmingham Conservatoire): Symbols, Tam Tams and 
Wisdom: The Influence of Vatican II and Transcendence in Messiaen's La Transfiguration de Notre-Seigneur, Jésus-Christ 

Vincent Benitez (Pennsylvania State University): The Influence of Saint Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae on the Compositional Aesthetic of Olivier Messiaen

Andrew Shenton (Boston University): Messiaen The Theologian: Exegesis and Enterprise in La Nativité du Seigneur 

10:45 - 11:00   Break 

11:00 - 1:00    Concepts of Art and Religion II: Contemporary Perspectives 
Peter Mercer-Taylor (University of Minnesota): Hymnody and the Problem of Musical Signification 

Michelle Stearns (University of St. Andrews): Theology and Musical Space: Arnold Schoenberg, Jeremy Begbie and the Conception of Unity.

Richard Wattenbarger (La Salle University): Musicology for the Church 

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REGISTRATION 

Registration before January 31, 2007: $ 40.00 (Students: $ 20.00) Late registration: $ 50.00 (after January 31, 2007) (Students: $ 30.00) Please fill out the registration form, available at www.fmcs.us, and return it together with the check (payable to Yale Institute of Sacred Music) to:

Yale Institute of Sacred Music 
FMCS Meeting 2007 
409 Prospect Street 
New Haven, CT 06511 

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LOCATION 

Sessions will be held in the Great Hall of the Institute of Sacred Music (409 Prospect Street). Specific information on the location of paper sessions will be made available to registrants prior to the conference. Conference information packets, including the conference program and a map of the Yale campus, will be provided at check in. 

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TRAVEL AND ACCOMODATIONS 

Hotel Reservations 

Guest rooms have been arranged at the New Haven Hotel (229 George Street, New Haven, CT) in downtown New Haven ( http://www.newhavenhotel.com, tel: 1-800-NH-Hotel). The nightly room rate at the New Haven Hotel is $105 per room (single or double), plus tax. The rate is a special Yale rate, please indicate your participation in the conference upon reservation. If you wish to investigate other hotel options please reference the following link for a guide to local inns and hotels: http://www.yale.edu/gateways/visitors.html 


Travel Directions to Yale Institute of Sacred Music 

By Air 
Tweed-New Haven Airport is served by USAirways. Local taxi service, Metro Cab (203.777.7777), is available at the airport. Connecticut Limousine Service (800.472.5466) to New Haven is available from Bradley, Kennedy, LaGuardia, and Newark airports. 

By Car 
Interstate 95 (from east or west) 
At New Haven take I-91 North to left-hand Exit 6, Willow Street. At the end of the exit ramp, turn right on Willow Street and follow to the end. Turn right on Whitney Avenue, drive one-half block, and turn left on Canner Street. Follow Canner Street to Prospect street (a distance of two blocks) and turn left onto Prospect. The entrance to the Divinity School is approximately 1 block down Prospect on the left. 

Interstate 91 (from north) 
Take exit 6, Willow Street, a right-hand exit, and follow the directions above. 

By Train 
Take Amtrak or Metro-North to New Haven. From the New Haven train station take a taxi to 409 Prospect Street. 

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For further information, please contact: 

Timothy H. Steele 
Department of Music 
Covenant College 
14049 Scenic Highway 
Lookout Mountain, GA 30750 
706-419-1454 (voice), 706-820-2165 (fax) 
e-mail:  steele at covenant.edu