Spring Meeting Program - April 13th (Hunter College)

12PM-1PM

20th-Century Popular Composition

Bryan Terry: Isaac Hayes' Soul Concept: Analyzing Hot Buttered Soul as a Pioneering Concept Album

Christopher Doll: The Beatles’ “White Album" as the Beginning of a Theory of Musical Intertextuality

On Composing

Suzanne Farrin: Near and Far: How I Write Away from Inspiration

Break 1:30-2:15

2:15PM-3:15PM

Late 19th-Century and Early 20th-Century Composers

Karen Messina: Rescued from Obscurity: Classical Form and Diegetic Music in Puccini's Operas

Sylvia Kahan: Debussy’s Late-Style Homage to Stravinsky in En blanc et noir’s Third-Movement Scherzando

3:30PM-4:30PM

Changing Views of Composers and Composition

Stephen Allen: Redeeming Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Sea Theme in the Ninth and Variations for Brass Band

Rufus Hallmark: Triple Meter in Schubert's Winterreise: A Quirk