Friday, January 30
9:00am: Registration Opens
9:45am: Welcome by Dr. Marshall Onofrio, Acting Dean, Westminster Choir College of Rider University
10:00am: Panel #1: Collaborations (Chair: Marshall Onofrio, Westminster Choir College of Rider University)
- Felicia Sandler (New England Conservatory): “Research and Concert Programming that Involves the Wider Community: An Example from the New England Conservatory of Music and Tufts University”
- Jennifer Kelly (Lafayette College): “The GLF Project: A Successful Model for Interdisciplinary Study and Public Engagement through the Commission and Performance of a Major Work”
11:00am: Coffee Break
11:15am: Panel #2: Musical Tourism (Chair: Sara Ruhle Kyle, Independent Scholar and Organist)
- Kate Galloway (Memorial University of Newfoundland): “Soundscapes and Civic Engagement: Public Ecomusicology through Soundwalking and Locative Soundscape Media”
- Christian Thorau (University of Potsdam): “What Ought to be Heard: Touristic Listening and the Proliferation of Musicological Knowledge”
12:15pm: Lunch (included with registration)
1:15pm: Panel #3: Going Public: Some Tough Questions of Public Musicology (Chair: Jason Hanley, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum)
- Felicia Miyakawa (Independent scholar, freelance editor and academic consultant): “Going ‘Rogue’: On Leaving the Academy and Taking Risks”
- Amanda Sewell (In the Write): “’But You’ve Still Looking for Jobs, Right? On Going Directly from the Dissertation Defense to Public Musicology”
- James L. Zychowicz (A-R Editions), “Careers in Musicology: Challenges for the Non-Teaching Scholar”
- Christine Kyprianides (Baroque cellist and viol performer): “Another Iron in the Fire: Public Musicology and the Freelance Musician”
3:15pm: Coffee Break
3:45pm: Panel #4: Museums (Chair: Nicol Hammond, University of California at Santa Cruz)
- Michael Alan Anderson (Eastman School of Music) and Nancy Norwood (Memorial Art Gallery): “Museum Soundscapes”
- Philip Gentry (University of Delaware): “Colonial Williamsburg’s Cold War Musicology”
- Nola Knouse (Moravian Music Foundation): “Preserving, Sharing, and Celebrating: The Moravian Music Foundation’s Public Mission”
- Allison Portnow (Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill): “The Musicologist in the Art Museum”
5:45pm: Break
6:00pm: Conference Banquet (included with registration)
Saturday, January 31
9:00am: Panel #5: New Music (Chair: John Brackett, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
- Thomas Patteson (Curtis Institute of Music and Bowerbird): “Public Musicology and New Music”
- Rebecca Jemian (University of Louisville): “Shifting Balances of Message, Audience and Situation”
10:00am Coffee Break
10:30pm: Panel #6: Working and Volunteering outside Academic Environments (Chair: Daniel Jenkins, University of South Carolina)
- Durrell Bowman (Public Musicologist and IT Consultant): “The Untapped Doctoral Majority of Potential Public Musicologists”
- Carl Leafstedt (Trinity University): “Developing a Public Profile through Nonprofit Board Leadership, or, What Use Can a Bartók Specialist Be in San Antonio, Texas?”
11:30am: Coffee Break
12:00pm: Panel #7: Public Musicology Projects by Westminster Undergraduate Classes (Chair: Sharon Mirchandani, Westminster Choir College of Rider University)
- The State Department-sponsored Westminster Choir World Tour, 1956-57 exhibit and podcast (Introduced by Jessica Stanislawczyk)
- The Sounds of Princeton exhibit and soundwalks (Introduced by Katherine Caughlin)
12:45pm: Lunch (included with registration)
2:00pm: Panel #8: Keynote Speech–Susan Key: “Going Public: A Musicological Offering” (Chair: Eric Hung, Westminster Choir College of Rider University)
3:00pm: Coffee Break
3:15pm: Panel #9: A Gentle Persuasion: Jane Austen’s Music in the Public Arena (Chair: Sheryl Kaskowitz, Independent Scholar, Editor, and Writing Consultant)
- Lecture-Recital by Dorothy de Val (York University) and Susanna McCleary (violinist and soprano)
4:30pm: Coffee Break
4:45pm: Panel #10: New Media and Public Musicology (Chair: Susan Key, Star-Spangled Music Foundation)
- Honey Meconi (University of Rochester / Eastman School of Music): “The Choral Singer’s Companion and the Intersection of Academic and Public Musicology”
- Felicia M. Miyakawa (Independent scholar, freelance editor and academic consultant) and Michael G. Fauver (W.W. Norton): “The Avid Listener: A New Site for Public Musicology”
5:45pm: Dinner on own
7:30pm: Panel #11: Evening Performance (Chair: Mandi Magnuson-Hung, Wells Fargo History Museum and Drexel University)
- Christianna Barnard (Westminster Choir College of Rider University): “The High School Mixtape Project: Using Public Musicology to Explore Evolving Identities”
- Katie Barnard (Westminster Choir College of Rider University), “Music and American Identity, A Dialogue-Concert”
- Performers: Will Vestal, Lauren Gilmore, Jacquie Evans, Van Baum, and James Camp
Sunday, February 1
9:00am: Panel #12: Histories and Mysteries (Chair: Erin Sheedy, McGill University)
- Christine Kyprianides (Baroque cellist and viol performer): “John Hullah and Musicology for the Million in Victorian England”
- Frederick Reece (Harvard University): “Winfried Michel’s ‘Haydn’: Authorship and Authority in the Strange Case of a Musical Forgery”
10:00am: Coffee Break
10:15am: Panel #13: Applied Musicology and Ethnomusicology (Chair: Dana Gorzelany-Mostak, Westminster Choir College of Rider University)
- Elissa Harbert (Macalester College): “Teaching the Wisest Among Us: Musicology as Elder Care”
- Rebecca Dirksen (Indiana University): “Unsound Music on Unstable Ground? The Adventures of Starting a Record Label in Post-quake Haiti”
11:15am: Coffee Break
11:30am: Panel #14: Innovative Methods in Music Education (Chair: Gary Potter, Indiana University)
- Su Yin Mak (Chinese University of Hong Kong): “Dramatizing the Musical Experience: Analysis and Performance in an Interactive Approach to Classical Music Appreciation”
- Jonathan Waxman (Hofstra University): “Public Musicology in the Concert Hall: The Evolving Role of Program Notes in Educating 21st-Century Audiences”
12:30pm: Lunch on campus
1:30pm: Panel #15: Innovative Opera Education—paper and workshop (Chair: Dan Blim, Philadelphia, PA)
- Naomi Barrettara (CUNY-Grad Center / Metropolitan Opera Guild): “Developing Educational Programming for the Opera-Going Public: A 5-Year Retrospective of Program Evolution at the Metropolitan Opera Guild”