Chapter Meetings, April 18-19, 2009 (McGill University)

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NYS-SL AMS CHAPTER MEETING
April 18 – April 19, 2009 
McGill University
Montréal, QC

Saturday, April 18, 2009

  • Steven Vande Moortele (Leuven, Belgium), "Changing Perspectives: Symphonic Narrative and Dramatic Action in Wagner's Die Fliegende Holländer."
  • Stephen Meyer (University of Syracuse), "The Voice of the Ring: Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings Films and the Legacy of Music Drama." 
  • Durrell Bowman (Independent Scholar), "Intertextual Music and Discursive Parody in The Simpsons."
  • Adalyat Issiyeva (McGill University), "Cabinet or Resuscitated Orient? Russian fin-de-siècle Sources on Asian Music." 
  • Kimberly Hannon (Eastman School of Music), "Imagining Africa: Duke Ellington and the Jungle." 
  • Elizabeth Wells (Mount Allison), "Foundation Courses in Music History: Engaging to Retain." 
  • Marie-Noëlle Lavoie (Université de Montréal), "From 'Rolls Royce of Dance Music' to 'Lyricism of Oppressed Peoples:' A (Re)Consideration of Jazz Borrowings in Milhaud." 
  • Colette Simonot (McGill University), "Neither Final Cadence nor Amen: The Guillotine in Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites." 


Sunday, April 19, 2009

  • Christopher Moore (University of Ottawa), "Poulenc's Conversion Revisited." 
  • Jennifer Taylor (York University), "Rock 'n Roll Camp for Girls: Redressing History and Expanding Girlhood." 
  • Zachary Ebin (York University), "Period Style Cadenzas for Mozart's Violin Concertos." 
  • François de Médicis (Université de Montréal), "The Première of Debussy's String Quartet at the Société nationale de musique (1893): Polemical Style and Political Stakes."
  • Emily R. Mills (Eastman School of Music), "The Mystery of Kubla Khan Revealed: Coleridge's Poem, Griffes's Music." 

























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