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 Patric...

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...

Call for Papers 2017 Meeting of the NYSSL Chapter of the AMS April 22 - 23, 2017 Faculty of Music, University of Toronto Deadline for Proposals: Friday 17 February 2017, by 5:00 p.m. EST The Spring meeting of the New York State St. Lawrence Chapter of the American Musicological Society will take place on Saturday 22 April through Sunday 23 April 2017 at the University of Toronto. You are invited to submit abstracts in all areas of scholarship on music to the Program Committee Chair, Caryl Clark, at c.clark@utoronto.ca . The deadline for submissions is 5:00 p.m. EST on Friday 17 February 2017. Other Conference Details The conference coincides with the Canadian Opera Company's new, all-Canadian production of Harry Somers' and Mavor Moore's centennial-commissioned opera Louis Riel, which runs in Toronto from 20 April through 13 May, and with the interdisciplinary symposium "Hearing Riel," which will take place at the University of Toronto on Friday, 21 Ap...

Greetings and Happy Fall to all members of the NYSSL chapter, As we start to prepare for the November meeting of the American Musicological Society in Vancouver, I thought now would be a good time to invite members comments for the National meeting of the Chapter Societies. Drop me an email if you would like an issue brought forward at this meeting. We can also confirm that the 2017 NYSSL chapter meeting will be held at the University of Toronto, April 22-23. This coincides with the Canadian Opera Company's production of Louis Riel, which premiers on the 20th, and has a second performance on the 23rd. Sherry Lee and Caryl Clark from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music are also hosting an all-day symposium on the opera April 21. NYSSL members are warmly invited to attend. For tickets to the opera, visit: http://www.coc.ca/PerformancesAndTickets/1617Season/LouisRiel.aspx Stay tuned for the Call for Papers in early December. Hope to see you in Vancouver! K...

Below are the suggested amendments to the chapter's bylaws. They are intended to streamline the running of the chapter and reduce protracted searches for volunteers. They are posted here for comments and discussion prior to voting. Please add your thoughts as comments to this post. An e-vote will take place June 10, 2016. Please watch your inboxes for this.

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 For the complete abstracts, click here 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 Femin...