American Musicological Society, New York State - St. Lawrence Chapter (NYSSL)

2018 Meeting of the NYSSL Chapter of AMS SUNY Fredonia School of Music, April 14-15, 2018 Deadline for proposals: Thursday, Feb. 1 The 2018 Spring meeting of the New York State St. Lawrence chapter of the American Musicological Society will take place on Saturday and Sunday, April 14-15, at SUNY Fredonia. Information on local hotels, B&Bs and restaurants will be posted on our website as it becomes available. Saturday night will feature a performance of the musical “Spring Awakening” by the Fredonia Department of Theatre Dance in conjunction with the School of Music. We encourage submissions that address Broadway musicals, Wedekind, musical representations of sexuality, and other issues related to “Spring Awakening.” We also solicit panel recommendations, including lightening talks or other alternative formats. You are invited to submit abstracts in all areas of scholarship on music to the Program Committee Chair: Jim Davis, SUNY Fredonia at  davisj@fredonia.edu . The deadline

The annual NYSSL Chapter meeting of the AMS took place over the April 22-23 weekend at the University of Toronto, in Ontario. Many thanks to University of Toronto’s Caryl Clark and Sherry Lee for skillfully co-chairing the meeting and taking care of local arrangements. The program committee put together a wonderful array of papers to provide stimulation for all members, with one panel ‘Resonances of Riel,’ perfectly timed to speak to the Canadian Opera Company’s ‘new’ premiere of Harry Somers’ Louis Riel a few nights prior. Participants were also treated to a compelling Keynote Address “Schopenhauer’s Musical Ecology” by Holly Watkins (Eastman School of Music), that repositioned Schopenhauer’s ‘will’ as an embodying and ecological organism. With about half the papers presented by graduate students, our Graduate Student Paper Prize adjudication committee (Laura Gray, James Currie, and Holly Watkins—thank you!) had their work cut out for them.  The prize was awarded to Patrick Ni

We are looking forward to welcoming everyone to the AMS-NYSSL Chapter meeting at the University of Toronto, April 22-23, 2017. The meeting will be held at the Faculty of Music, Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park Crescent, (Museum Subway) Toronto, Canada M5S2C5. We have planned an exciting program, including faculty and student presenters, and a keynote address by Holly Watkins from the Eastman School of Music. Our thanks to Stephanie Vander Wel, University at Buffalo, for her assistance with the program, available here . Abstracts and presenter bios are available here . We ask that you make your own hotel arrangements. The closest reasonably-priced hotel is the Holiday Inn Bloor Yorkville, 280 Bloor Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5S1V8. http://www.hitorontoblooryorkville.ca There are, of course, many other options in the vicinity of the university and the surrounding downtown neighbourhood. As announced earlier, the conference coincides with the Canadian Opera Company'