Keynote Address (7:00–8:00 p.m.)
George E. Lewis (Columbia University): "The Condition of Improvisation"

Ten–minute break

Session II: Theorizing Performance 1 (10:40–11:40 a.m.)
 • Building Theory from Performance: A Process-Oriented Approach to the Study of Gesture in Music Rehearsal and Performance
   Linda T. Kaastra (University of British Columbia)
 • Going with the Grain: Listening to Language, Music and the Voice in the Performance of Schubert's "Am Feierabend"
   Jennifer Ronyak (Eastman School of Music)

Twenty–minute break

Session III: Theorizing Performance 2 (12:00–1:00 p.m.)
 • Corpo-Realities: Where 'Always Already' meets 'Sometime Not Yet'
   Tracy McMullen (University of California at San Diego)
 • Embodied Sound: Aural Architectures and the Body
   Gascia Ouzounian (University of California at San Diego)

Lunch (1:00–2:00 p.m.)

Keynote Address (2:00–3:00 p.m.)
Carolyn Abbate (Harvard University): "Overlooking the Ephemeral"

Twenty–minute break

Session IV: Culture, Knowledge, and Performance (3:20–4:50 p.m.)
 • Taleem Transformations: Embodied Mediation of Musical Knowledge in a North Indian Classical Music Lesson
   Nikki Moran (Open University–Cambridge University)
 • The Virtuous Virtuoso: Women at the Pianoforte in Jane Austen's England
   Elizabeth Morgan (University of California at Los Angeles)
 • Signifying on his Jelly Roll Soul: Collective Practices of New Orleans Jazz in Charles Mingus's Jazz Workshop
   Jennifer Griffith (The Graduate Center, City University of New York)

Reception

All events are free and open to the public, although advance registration is required for paper sessions. To register, please e-mail cmsc@columbia.edu.