[AMS-announce] CONF: Spring Meeting of the Allegheny Chapter of the AMS, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, 19 April 2008

[Announcements for the AMS]

The Allegheny Chapter of AMS will meet at Kent State University (Kent, Ohio) on Saturday, April 19, 2008, in Room E-202 of the Hugh A. Glauser School of Music.  Registration and coffee are available at 8:30 a.m.

The program is as follows:

9:00: RECENT RESEARCH IN NINETEENTH CENTURY TOPICS
“Origins and Interpretation of Willibrord Joseph Mähler’s Portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven.”   -Mark Alan Schulz (Great Tunes Multimedia, Inc.)
“Alexander Wheelock Thayer, the ‘Diarist,’ and Foreign Correspondent: Beethoven’s Biographer as Choral Critic”  -Grant William Cook III (Heidelberg College)
“The American Whig Interpretation of Music History.”  -William E. Grim (Columbus, Ohio)
“‘To Render Their Perception More Plain?’ Narrative versus Interpretative Programs in Liszt’s Weimar Works.”   -Matthew Baumer (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)

12:00 Lunch

1:30 Chapter Business Meeting

2:00: NEW INSIGHTS IN TWENTIETH CENTURY MUSIC
“Schoenberg’s Atonal Music as Realist and Prophet (Refracted Through the Philosophies of Benjamin, Adorno, and Attali.”   -Anders J. Tobiason (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
“‘L’Alouette et l’hirondelle’: Nostalgia and Hope in a Resistance Song Album.”  -Colin Roust (Oberlin College Conservatory of Music)
“Inventing the Western Film Score: Jerome Moross’ The Big Country.” -Mariana Whitmer (Center for American Music, Stephen Foster Memorial)
“A Rediscovered Piano Sonata by Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988): A Lecture/Recital.” -Franco Sciannameo (Carnegie Mellon University) and pianist Donna Amato.

5:00 Adjournment