CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Friday, May 30, 2008
Schoenberg Music Building 1440

Registration
2:00-2:30pm

Music in Wartime
2:30-3:30pm
Moderator: Marcus Desmond Harmon

“Experiencing Time in the Quartet for the End of Time”
Jann Pasler (University of California, San Diego)

“Lady Alda Hoare’s Musical Remembering of a Lost Son: Musical Life-Writing Sources at the Stourhead Estate, Wiltshire”
Michelle Davidson (University of Cincinnati)
 

Situating the Enlightenment
3:45-4:45pm
Moderator: Eric Wang

“Il Cembalo de’colori, e la Musica degli occhi: Newtonian Optics, Venetian Arts, and Modal Polarity in Eighteenth-Century Music”
Bella Brover-Lubovsky (Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music and Dance, Israel)

“Arlequin, a Flying Wheelbarrow, and Mohammed: Portraying Otherness in Arlequin Mahomet”
Marcie Ray (UCLA)
 

Dinner on your own
5:00-7:00pm

Lecture-Recital (SMB 1440)
7:00-8:00pm

“Messiaen as Painter: Nature Depictions in the Catalogue d’oiseaux”
Xenia Pestova (McGill University)
 

Saturday, May 31, 2008
Perloff Hall 1102

Reception and Registration
8:00-9:00am

Townscapes/Soundscapes
9:00-10:30am
Moderator: Zarah Ersoff

“Musical Mainhattan: Frankfurt’s Different Modernity”
Sean Nye (University of Minnesota)

“Second Line Beats on Second Line Streets: How New
Orleans Brass Bands Negotiate Space through the ‘Second Line’ Parading Tradition”
Julie Raimondi (UCLA)

“Breaks in the Liège’s Soundscape during the First Part of the 17th Century: A Strategy of Power?”
Emilie Corswarem (University of Liège, Belgium)
 

Lunch
11:00–12:00pm

Keynote Address
12:00-1:15pm

"Civilizing Space: Putting Nature into Time (Belasco, Puccini, and The Girl of the Golden West)”
Richard Leppert (University of Minnesota)
 

Geographic Tensions
1:30-3:00pm
Moderator: Peter Lawson

“John Cage’s ‘Chance Operations’ as a New Design Method for Landscape Architecture”
Barry Morse (Maine)

“Finding ‘Bobcaygeon’ on the Canadian Landscape: The Cross-Diffusion of Identity in Musical and Geographic Space”
Melissa Wong (McGill University)

“Between Two Worlds: Aaron Copland and the Musical Place of Vitebsk”
Jacob Cohen (University of Washington)
 

Mapping Anxieties
3:15-4:45pm
Moderator: Marianna Ritchey

“The Space of Perfect Lives”
Jason Hibbard (University of Cincinnati)

“Inside the Box: Representations of Spatial and Aural Confinement within Tori Amos’s Music Videos”
Bethany Smith (University of Cincinnati)

“The ‘Voice of Independence’ or the Music of Fear? Civil Defense Air-Raid Sirens and the Entoning of Cold-War Anxiety”
James Deaville (Carleton University)