Schedule

Winter 2004

MASG Residency: Michael Broyles (Pennsylvania State University) and Denise Von Glahn (Florida State University)

Friday-Saturday, May 7-8

All events held at the American Culture Conference Room (3512 Haven Hall)

Friday, May 7:

9:30 coffee
10am -- Intros and Discussion of Michael Broyles' book

11:30-1:30 LUNCH with Faculty

1:30-3:00 Discussion of Denise Von Glahn's book
3:00 Individual Appointments

7:30 BBQ at Professor Mark Clague's Home, 1610 Argyle Crescent, Ann Arbor

Saturday, May 8:

9am -- Individual Appointments
10:00 -- "Knowing more than you'd like and never enough: Dilemmas and choices for the scholar-biographer." (Talk on Leo Ornstein Biography Project)

Noon-2pm -- LUNCH with Students

2pm -- Professional Development talk
"Keeping Your Head Above Water and Making Progress Against the Current While Wearing Lead Shoes"

4pm Individual Appointments

Please contact MASG coordinator Colin Roust to set up an individual appointment or to join the lunch plans.

Prep Session for Society for American Music Conference (March 10-14, 2004)

4:00, Friday, February 6

506 Burton Memorial Tower

Todd Decker: Delivering Miss Otis's Regrets: Performers and Arrangers Tackle Cole Porter's Tale of an Unlikely Lynching

Nathan Platte: Dream Analysis: Erich Wolfgang Korngold's Weaving of Music, Speech, and Visuals
in Warner Brothers' A Midsummer Night's Dream

4:00, Friday, January 16

Ostermann Common Room

Institute for the Humanities (in the west basement of Rackham)

 

Prof. Mark Clague: Aaron Copland and the Aesthetics of Hollywood

Stephanie Krehbiel: A Few Ways to be a Mennonite: Contemporary Christian Music in a Community of Hymns

Fall 2003

Prep Session for AMS-Midwest Meeting (September 20-21, 2003)

4:00, Friday, September 12

Ostermann Common Room

Institute for the Humanities (in the west basement of Rackham)

 

Tim Freeze: Two Orchestrations of Gershwin's Concerto in F

Stephanie Heriger: "Tis the Gift to be Simple": The Second Hurricane and Copland's First Steps toward American Opera

Colin Roust: The Birds and the Squirrels: Finding David Diamond in Copland's Dickinson Songs

Guest Speaker: Per Broman, Assistant Professor of Music Theory, Bowling Green State University

4:00, Friday, October 10

Ostermann Common Room

Institute for the Humanities (in the west basement of Rackham)

Prof. Per F. Broman: "When All Is Said and Done": The ABBA Reception during the 1970s and the Ideology of Pop

4:00, Friday, November 7

Ostermann Common Room

Institute for the Humanities (in the west basement of Rackham)

Prof. Derek Vaillant: Listening to Musical Progressivism: Music at Chicago's Hull House, 1889-1919

John Behling: "I Gotta Be Me": The Performance of Individualtiy and Intimacy in the Music of Sammy Davis, Jr