[AMS-announce] Lyrica Society: Awards, CFP, Nashville session

[Announcements for the AMS]

The Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations is delighted to announce this year’s laureates of our recent essay competition:

The Louis Auld Prize has been awarded to Christopher Barry for his essay “Unrecording Milton Babbitt’s Philomel: Taped Voice as Schizophrenic Prosthesis.”  Mr. Barry is completing his Ph.D. in music theory at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.  

The Isabelle Cazeaux Prize has been awarded to Dr. Katelijne Schiltz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München for her essay An Avant-Garde Look at Early Music: Luigi Nono’s Thoughts on Sixteenth-Century Polyphony.  

Dr. Schiltz and the future Dr. Barry will present their papers at the 2009 AMS Meeting in Philadelphia, which will be devoted to contemporary opera.

Call for papers

American Comparative Literature Association Convention, 

Harvard university, march 26-29, 2009 

The annual convention of the American Comparative Literature Association (www.acla.org), meets in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where Harvard will be the hosting university.  The conference’s theme is Global Languages, Local Cultures and Lyrica’s seminar is entitled “Revival and Survival: Opera, Song, Regionalism, Pluralism, Nationalism.”  Abstracts need not exceed 250 words, and should be submitted electronically by January 15, 2009 to lyricasociety at aol.com with ACLA in the subject line.  Further information may be obtained by contacting Lyrica’s Liaison Officers to the ACLA, Luke Berryman (berryman at bu.edu), Shawn Gorman (gorman at fas.harvard.edu) and Steven Rozenski (rozenski at fas.harvard.edu).

NASHVILLE MEETING

A cordial invitation to Lyrica's AMS session at Nashville, Saturday, 8 November, 8 PM at the Nashville Conference Center 205:
 
New Perspectives on Debussy
Marie Rolf (Eastman School of Music): “Debussy’s Rites of Spring” 

Stephen Zank (Duke University): “Debussy and Ravel: Irony as Construct” 

Ralph P. Locke (Eastman School of Music): “Unacknowledged Exoticism in Debussy: The Incidental Music for Le martyre de saint Sébastien (1911)” 

Paul-André Bempéchat (Center for European Studies, Harvard University): “Duparc Dismisses Debussy: The Unpublished Pelléas Correspondence”

Respondent: Peter Laki (Bard College)