All conference events will take place in McGregor Memorial Conference Center, 495 Gilmour Mall, Detroit, MI 48202.
Wednesday, June 25
8:00–9:00 Breakfast (provided)
8:45 Welcoming Remarks, Jack Blaszkiewicz and Jeffrey Sposato
9:00–10:30 New Approaches to Analyzing and Researching Nineteenth-Century Music
(Jonathan Kregor, Chair)
Douglas Shadle: “Programs for Program Music: A New Lens on Reception History”
Gilad Rabinovitch: “Towards a Lexicon of Early Nineteenth-Century Preluding”
Janice Dickensheets: “Nineteenth-Century Musical Topoi and the Musical Tapestries of Middle Earth”
10:45–12:15 Mediating Gender and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Music
(Jennifer Walker, Chair)
Eftychia Papanikolaou: “Mediating the Pan-Erotic: John Neumeier’s Choreomusical Translation of Mahler’s Third Symphony”
Laurie McManus: “‘He’s Become a Part of Me’: Queering the Levi-Brahms Artistic Relationship”
Kendall Winter: “Becoming ‘Miss Grym’: Gender, Politics, and Suffragist Impersonation in Vaudeville and Music Halls”
12:15–2:15 Lunch
2:15–3:45 Sounding American?
(Douglas Shadle, Chair)
Sarah Gerk: “Chauncey Olcott: The Voice of Gaelic Revival in the United States”
Heather Platt: “From the Ivory Tower to Clubs and Schools: Exploring Diverse American Songs”
Jaz Margalit: “American in Name, American in Character: Dvořák’s New World Symphony”
3:45–4:15 Coffee Break (provided)
4:15–5:45 Women’s Musical Networks in the Nineteenth Century
(Marie Sumner Lott, Chair)
Hilary Poriss: “Composing Community: Women’s Networks in Pauline Viardot’s Song Dedications”
Lauren Ganger: “Elizabeth Craven’s Brandenburgh Theater: Women and Creative Agency at the Turn of the 19th Century”
Theodora Serbanescu-Martin: “Hélène de Montgeroult, Feminine Calisthenics, and the Culture of Digital Bildung”
6:00 Wine Reception (open bar)
Thursday, June 26
8:00–9:00 Breakfast (provided)
9:00–10:00 Lecture Recital
(Helena Kopchick Spencer, Moderator)
Whitney Thompson: “‘Poor Feminine Claribel with her Hundred Songs’: Ballads, Royalties, and the Birth of the Music Industry in 1860s England”
10:15–12:15 (De)Constructing Racial Narratives in Nineteenth-Century Music
(Heather Platt, Chair)
Nathan Dougherty: “‘Nègres et blancs sont égaux à tes yeux’: Ourika in Three 1820s French Romances”
Patrick Murphy: “Black Middle-Class Contributions to Carnival Music in Late 19thc. Trinidad”
Sam Girling: “Gracefulness or Raucousness? The Tambourine’s Surprising Role in Early 19thc. British Domestic Music”
Kristen M. Turner: “The Plantation Show and Narratives of Racial Progress During the Gilded Age”
12:15–2:15 Lunch
2:15–3:15 New Ways of Hearing Nineteenth-Century Music
(Jack Blaszkiewicz, Chair)
Maurice Windleburn: “Echo and Rhythm in Henri Bergson’s Early Thought”
Kirill Smolkin: “Tchaikovsky, as Heard in Poulenc”
3:15–3:45 Coffee Break (provided)
3:45–5:15 Ownership, Publication, and Performance
(Shaena B. Weitz, Chair)
Christopher Parton: “Who Owns a Song?: Copyrighting Foreign Music in 19th-Century Britain”
Samuel Backer: “Locally Oriented but Nationally Circulating: Oliver Ditson Co. and the Political Economy of American Mass Culture”
Jonathan Kregor: “‘As Played By...’: The Performer as Editorial Endpoint”
5:30–6:30 Pedagogy in Practice
(Laurie McManus, Chair)
Danny Huang: “The Cultural-Historical Contexts for Franz Liszt’s Weimar Masterclasses”
Lucy Liu: “Close Reading and Aesthetic Experience in the Classroom: The Story of a Brahmsian Urlinie”
Friday, June 27
8:00–9:00 Breakfast (provided)
9:00–10:30 Chopin, Then and Now
(Jane Sylvester, Chair)
Jessica Castleberry: “Death Laughs Last: Chopin’s Scherzi and the Danse Macabre”
Rachana Vajjhala: “Chopin’s Candelabra”
Nana Wang: “From Chopin to Nostalgic Hong Kong-Style Pop: Repurposing Chopin’s Etude, Op. 10,
No. 1 on Bilibili”
10:45–12:15 Politics and Reception
(Eftychia Papanikolaou, Chair)
Scott Messing: “The Small Reveal: The Identity of Beethoven’s Brutus Bust”
Rhianna Nissen: “The Opera that the ‘Public Sorely Missed’: Theaterpolizei Censorship and Auber’s Die Stumme von Portici on the Prussian Stage”
Jacques Dupuis: “Banning Gemütlichkeit on Sundays: Indiana’s Blue Laws and 19th-Century German Popular Musical Theater”
12:15–2:15 Lunch
2:15–3:15 Law, Order, and Image
(Kristen M. Turner, Chair)
Quentin Dishman: “Lies, Lawsuits, and Artistic License: The Making (and Remaking) of Thérésa”
Shaena B. Weitz: “The ‘Crimes’ of Frédéric Kalkbrenner: 19th-Century Celebrity Fraud and Para-Social Relationships”
3:30–5:00 Contextualizing Nineteenth-Century Domestic Song
(Mary Paquette-Abt, Chair)
Laura Stokes: “The Dutch and the Quakers Dance in Sicily: An Exploration of Meyerbeer’s Sizilianische Volkslieder”
James MacKay: “Parlor Songs and Ragtime Waltzes: Scott Joplin’s Triple-Meter Works”
Aradhana Arora and Nico Schüler: “Rediscovering Late 19th-Century African American Music: Reception and Analysis of Two Songs by Sam Lucas”