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Schedule of Events


Friday, January 30, 2004
Earl Hall
7:15 pm: Check-in
 
8:00: Welcome Addresses by Professor Lydia Goehr, Columbia University, and Conference Directors. Concert by Collegium Musicum, with Musical Director Ryan Dohoney
 
9:30: Reception
 

Saturday, January 31, 2004
301 Philosophy Hall
9:00-9:30 am: Breakfast
 
9:30-11:00, Panel I: Music and Reception
Session Chair: Joshua Walden
 
  "The Orchestra Machine, Timbre, and the New Listener in the 18th Century"
    Emily Dolan, Cornell University
  "'Baroque Music in Israel': First Adaptations and transformations in the New Land"
    Maya Liberman-Weil, University of Tel Aviv
  "Caruso and His Cousins: Portraits of Italian Americans in the Operatic Novelty Songs of Edwards and Madden"
    Larry Hamberlin, Brandeis University
 
11:30-1:00 pm, Panel II: Musical Performance and Practice
Session Chair: Karen Hiles
 
  "Authority, Literary Agency, and Musical Authorship in the Works of Adam de la Halle"
    Jesus Ramos Kittrell, University of Texas at Austin
  "Performing Instrumental Transgression: Camille Saint-Saëns's Carnival of the Animals in the fin-de-siècle salon"
    Erica Scheinberg, University of California at Los Angeles
  "Powerful Voices: Performing and Interaction in Collegiate A Cappella"
    Joshua Duchan, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
 
1:00-2:00: Lunch
 
2:00-3:00: Keynote Address: "Musical Writing"
    Scott Burnham, Princeton University
 
3:30-5:30, Panel III: Musical Modernism and the Avant-Garde
Session Chair: Christopher Doll
 
  "Analyzing Poème Électronique as a Piece of Musical Multimedia"
    Hubert Ho, University of California at Berkeley
  "'A New Kind of Insanity': John Cage's Atlas Eclipticalis and the Challenges of Indeterminacy"
    Edgardo Salinas, Columbia University
  "Modern Attention and Modernist Aurality in Helmholtz and Varèse"
    Benjamin Steege, Harvard University
  "Listening in on the première of Pierre Boulez's Structures 1a"
    Ben Parsons, St. Catherine's College, Oxford University