Program 2020
Registration: 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
Opening and Session 1: 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Diogo Carvalho (University of Florida) - “‘Open the Bruise Up’: Identity and Memory in Steve Reich’s Music”
Kirsten Westerman (University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music) - “Music to drown by: Sonic Space as Social Designator in Titanic”
Session 2: 11 AM - 12 PM
Anna Reguero (Stony Brook University) - “Genre Borders and Hybridization: A case study of the Ecstatic Music Festival”
Blake Ritchie (Rutgers University) - “Rebel Grrrl: Punk Aesthetics and Musical Egalitarianism”
Lunch 12 PM - 1 PM
Session 3: 1 PM - 2:30 PM
Roan Ma (Columbia University) - Lecture Recital - “Female Baroque Composers Hidden in the Male Canon”
Alexander Meszler (Arizona State University) - “The ‘Church Organ’ in Secularized Space”
Session 4: 3 PM - 4 PM
Sean Smither (Rutgers University) - “Referents in the Palimpsests of Jazz: Disentangling Theme from Improvisation in Ellington and Strayhorn’s ‘Satin Doll’”
Zeke Levine (New York University) - “Between Two Worlds: George Gershwin’s Dybbuk”
Keynote Address 4:30-5:30 PM
Dr. William Robin (University of Maryland) - “Multiculturalism, New Music, and the Culture Wars”