2022 NYSSL Chapter Meeting Program
April 9-10, 2022Eastman 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
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
