Spring Meeting--April 25th 2015 at The Juilliard School

The Spring  Meeting will take place on Saturday, April 25th, at the Juilliard School at Lincoln Center.  The theme for the meeting is Music and Fantasy.  We will also feature a panel discussion on changes in music delivery and reception, featuring speakers on copyright, recording, live performance, and entrepreneurship.  

12-1  Fantasy and Media

Harmonizing the Fantastical: The Familiar and Unfamiliar in Howard Shore’s The Lord of the Rings

Vincent Rone (UC Santa Barbara)

Immersion into Fantasy: Compositional Techniques of Video Game Music from the Late 80s and Early 90s

Christopher Hopkins (Five Towns College)

1-2 Panel Discussion—Changes in Music Delivery and Reception in the 21^st Century

Panelists:  David Cohen (Institute of Audio Research), Lawrence Ferrara (NYU), Philip Nuzzo (Metro Chamber Orchestra), Benjamin Sosland (Juilliard)

2:15-3:15  The Tempest

The Tempest in Opera from the Eighteenth Century to Thomas Adès

William Germano (Cooper Union)

The Tempest: Its Structure and Music

Ren Draya (Blackburn College)

3:15-4:15  Business Meeting, Elections, Reception