[AMS-announce] CONF: AMS Allegheny Chapter, West Virginia University, Morgantown, 26 Oct 2008

[Announcements for the AMS]

The Allegheny Chapter of the AMS will hold its Fall meeting on Saturday, October 26, 2008, at West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.  Coffee and registration are available at 8:30 a.m.  The program is as follows:

9:00            Papers I: NEW LIGHT ON THE FAMILIAR

Blake Stevens (Youngstown State University): “Theatrical Space and the Role of Narrative in French Baroque Opera”

Theodore Albrecht (Kent State University): “Joseph Carl Stieler’s 1820 Portrait of Beethoven Writing the Missa Solemnis: What the Composer was Really Thinking”

Vicki Stroeher (Marshall University): “Benjamin Britten’s Auden Cycle, On This Island: The Bohemian and the Bourgeois”

Colin Roust (Oberlin College): “Reaching the Masses: Georges Auric as Populist Composer”

2:00 p.m.       Papers II: NEW WAYS OF LISTENING

Jee-Weon Cha (Youngstown State University): “Augenblick, Exact Imagination, and Music Listening.”

Benjamin Binder (Duquesne University): “Jonathan Miller’s Production of the St Matthew Passion and the Limits of Representation.”

Yen-Ling Liu (Stanford University): “Musical Effects and Musical Architecture: Two Models of Monumentality and the Case of Liszt’s Symphonic Style.”

Michael Boyd (Chatham University): “Impetus Influenced Form: Roger Reynolds’s The Palace (Voicespace IV)”

Anyone who would like to receive the abstracts of the papers for this meeting may request it from the program chair. Abstracts will also be available on the Allegheny Chapter website: http://www.people.iup.edu/rahkonen/AllegAMS/