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Conference Schedule

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”

3:00pm: Furthering Public Musicology: Concluding thoughts by conference organizers

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