2022 NYSSL Chapter Meeting Program

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April 9-10, 2022
Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester




SATURDAY, APRIL 9


8:45-9:15 — Registration, Coffee, and Baked Goods


9:15-9:20 — Welcome


9:20-10:45 — Panel 1: The Social Spaces of Music Education

Chair: Michael Anderson (ESM)


Re-Writing the Canon: Incorporating the Music of South Asia into the Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade Music Curriculum in the North America

Abigail Ryan, University of Cincinnati: College-Conservatory of Music


Dorm Rooms Through the Decades: Archival Research, Public Musicology, and Institutional History in the General Education Classroom

Monica Hershberger, SUNY Geneseo


“Ragtime.” Rediscovered

Emma Gierszal, Eastman School of Music


10:45-11:00 — Break


11:00-12:00 — Panel 2: Seeing and Hearing Black Musicking

Chair: Cory Hunter (University of Rochester)


Blues and Bobby Sox: Vocal Timbre and Black Girlhood 

Emmalouise St. Amand, Eastman School of Music


Blind Auditions in Jazz?

Ben Givan, Skidmore College


12:00-1:30 — Lunch


1:30-3:00 — Panel 3: Recorded Histories, Virtual Futures

Chair: Darren Mueller (Eastman School of Music)


“Playing in the Mud”: Cassette Tapes and the Do It Yourself Histories of East Bay Punk

Sean Louis Peters, Cornell University


Ragas to Reissues: Contextualizing and Re-contextualizing Narratives of Charanjit Singh’s Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat

Nick Anderson, Eastman School of Music


Emma Calvé’s Archival Afterlives

Sarah Fuchs, Syracuse University


3:00-3:15 — Break


3:15-4:15 — Panel 4: Cosmology and Mysticism

Chair: John Kapusta (Eastman School of Music)


“Under a cloud of ignorance”: Johannes Kepler, Harmony, and the Early Modern Soul

Patrick Davis, University at Buffalo


The Magic is in the Doing: Ritual Performativity in Esperanza Spalding’s 12 Little Spells [virtual]

Rachel Hottle, McGill University


4:15-4:30 — Break


4:30-5:30 — Keynote: “Expansion and Acceleration; or, What was Modernism?”

                     Professor Sherry Lee, University of Toronto

             Introduction: Holly Watkins, Eastman School of Music


5:30-7:00 — Reception, Sproull Atrium in Miller Center (across the street from Eastman; held jointly with the Music Theory Society of New York State)



SUNDAY, APRIL 10


8:45-9:15 — Registration, Coffee, and Baked Goods


9:15-10:15 — Workshop: The Mindful Classroom, with Professor Melina Esse (Eastman School of Music)


10:00-10:15 — Break


10:15-11:45 — Panel 5: Performance and Performativity

Chair: Lisa Jakelski (Eastman School of Music)


Nationalism, Nomadism, and Virtuosity in Franz Liszt’s Rhapsodies hongroises

Caleb Labbe Phelan, University of Toronto


Franz Schreker’s Der Geburtstag der Infantin at the Garden Theatre of Vienna’s Kunstschau 1908

Sadie Menicanin, University of Toronto


Technological Mediation of Opera: The Concept of Access

Cormac Newark, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London


11:45-12:15 — Annual General Meeting (Chairs: Cintia Cristiá and Mary Simonson)


12:15-12:30 — Break


12:30-12:45 — Announcement of Graduate Student Paper Prize




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Dear AMS-NYSSL Members,


We and our colleagues look forward to welcoming you to Eastman School of Music for the annual meeting of the AMS-NYSSL chapter. The conference will take place April 9-10 (Saturday-Sunday). 


Travel to Eastman School of Music: Eastman is located in downtown Rochester, NY, approximately 90 minutes from Syracuse and Buffalo, three and a half hours from Albany, a little over three hours from Toronto, and over five hours from Montreal. It is a fifteen-minute drive from The Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport to Eastman; Amtrak trains arrive at the Louise M. Slaughter Station, which is a five-minute drive away. For information on ground transportation options from either, please contact Darren Mueller (dmueller [at] esm.rochester [dot] edu). 


Accommodations: 

  • The Inn On Broadway: 26 Broadway, just off East Avenue and a 4-minute walk from Eastman. Prices are currently around $235 per night. Call 585.232.3595 for reservations. 

  • Courtyard by Marriot: 390 East Ave., a 10-minute walk to Eastman. Prices currently range from $180 to $200. Call (585) 504-2750 for reservations. 

  • The Strathallan Rochester (a DoubleTree by Hilton): 550 East Avenue, a 15-minute walk to Eastman. Prices currently range from $200 to $250. Call 585-461-5010 for reservations. 

  • The Holiday Inn Rochester: 70 State St., a 15-minute walk to Eastman  (caution is advised while traveling at night). Prices are currently around $120 per night. Call 585.355.4811 for reservations. 

  • The Hyatt Regency Rochester: 125 E. Main St., near the convention center and an 8-minute walk from Eastman (caution is advised while traveling at night). Prices are currently around $180 per night. Call 585.546.1234 for reservations 

  • The Hilton Garden Inn: 155 E. Main St., near the convention center and an 8-minute walk from Eastman (caution is advised while traveling at night). Prices currently range from $160 to $185. Call 585-232-5000 for reservations. 


Should lodging be an issue, please contact Darren Mueller (dmueller [at] esm.rochester [dot] edu) for recommendations or more affordable options.


Conference Meals and Refreshments: Coffee, tea, and light snacks will be available on Saturday and Sunday mornings, as well as during a coffee break on Saturday afternoon. On Saturday from 5:30 to 7:00, please join us for a reception in the Sproull Atrium in Miller Center (across the street from Eastman), held jointly with the Music Theory Society of New York State. 


Conference Location and Parking: The conference will be held in the main building of Eastman, in Howard Hanson Hall (4th floor). Parking is available at the East End Garage, 475 E. Main St. (use the Scio St. entrance, $2 per hour, max $8). From the garage, exit onto Swan St. and follow the alley or E. Main St. to Gibbs St. The main entrance is in the middle of the block. Please be prepared to show ID after you enter the building. Street parking is also available.  


Concert: At 7:30pm on Friday and Saturday nights, The Eastman Opera Theatre will be performing Into The Woods in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. Attendance is free! 


Food Options: Breakfast, Coffee, Lunch – $ to $$

  • Java’s (coffee, pastries, and sandwich on Saturday only) 

  • Spot Coffee (coffee, sandwiches, breakfast fair) 

  • Peppa Pot Restaurant (Jamaican) 

  • Ugly Duck (coffee and pastries) 

  • Stromboli's Restaurant (pizza, strombolis, calzones) 

  • Mercantile on Main (food court with different options) 

  • Twisted Tap (gastropub) 

  • Locals Only (breakfast and lunch café) 

  • Veneto Wood Fired Pizza & Pasta ($$-$$$)


Food Options: Dinner Only (closed Sundays) – $$ to $$$

  • Ox and Stone 

  • Native Rochester

  • Branca Midtown

  • Redd

  • Max of Eastman Place 


If you have any further questions, please contact Darren Mueller (dmueller [at] esm.rochester [dot] edu). 


See you all soon in Rochester!


With best wishes,

Holly Watkins and Darren Muller

Conference Co-Chairs



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