Potsdam Conference Program 2016

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NYSSL AMS Chapter Meeting , April 30-May 1, 2016
Crane School of Music
State University of New York at Potsdam
Wakefield Recital Room, Bishop Hall

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Saturday, April 30

8:30am: Registration, coffee/pastries
Dean’s Conference Room, Bishop Hall, 2nd Floor (next to Wakefield)

9:00-10:00 AM: Rethinking Performance Contexts and Texts
Chair: Kirsten Yri (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Gregory Johnston (University of Toronto), “Heinrich Schütz’s Musical Gift to the Wolfenbüttel Court:  What the Partbooks Tell Us”

Annalise Smith (Cornell University), “Directorial Influence at the Paris Opéra: The Case of Devismes du Valgay” 


10:00-11:00    Negotiating the Past and the Place
Chair: Stephanie Vander Wel (University at Buffalo, State University of New York)

Anne Briggs (Wichita State University), “Fado and Female Azorean Immigrants”

Lydia Hamessley (Hamilton College), “’Shattered Image’: Appalachian White-Trash Femininities in the Songs of Dolly Parton”

11:00   BREAK

11:15-12:15  Keynote Speaker:  Benjamin Piekut (Cornell University), "Not So Much a Program of Music, as the Experience of Music: Distributed Authorship in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company”"


Lunch: 12:15-1:30
Crane Commons

1:30-2:30  Physical/Spiritual
Chair: Colleen Renihan (University of Guelph)

François de Médicis (Université de Montréal), “Human Perception and Transcendence in Maeterlinck and Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande (Act III scene 3)”

Stephen Lett (University of Michigan), “Religious Music in Helen Bonny’s Typology of Music for LSD Psychotherapy”


2:30-3:30  Silenced
Chair: Lydia Hamessley (Hamilton College)

Silvia Lazo (Cornell University), “The Secret Nightingale: when utterance and silence co-exist. Susan Metcalfe-Casals and the Genesis of En Sourdine”



Seth Coluzzi (Brandeis University), “The First Songstress: The Fragmented History of Lucia Quinciani’s Monody of 1611”


3:30   BREAK

3:45-4:30  Annual Business Meeting

5:00-6:30  Dinner: Lehmann Dining Hall

6:30 Pre-Concert Lecture: Dr. Nelly Case, “Fauré’s Requiem”
Analysis and Local History: a summary of the work and its prominence in the history of the Crane School (Wakefield Recital Room)
Lougheed-Kofoed Festival of the Arts (LOKO)


7:30 LOKO Festival Concert, Fauré: Requiem, works by Bruckner, Vaughan Williams. Crane Chorus and Symphony Orchestra
Duain Wolfe, conductor

Sunday, May 1

9:30am Registration, coffee/pastries

10:00-11:30  Mediating Family Through Music: An Investigation of Musical Domesticity in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Chair: Amanda Lalonde (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Tessa MacLean (McGill University), “’Family Time’ with the Schumanns: Bourgeois Constructions in Liederalbum für die Jugend, Op. 79”

Michael Kinney (McGill University), “’You need only do your duty under all circumstances’: Reconciling Clara Schumann’s Feminine Identity in Victorian Domestic and Public Spheres”

Rachel Avery (McGill University), “Looking Back at the Home: L’Enfant et les Sortilèges as Engagement with Late Nineteenth-Century French Domesticity”

11:30-11:45  BREAK

11:45    Graduate Student Paper Award (announcement)

12:00 CLOSE


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