Conference Agenda

This year’s meeting will focus on the recent landmark publication in our field - Here for the Hearing: Analyzing the Music in Musical Theater (2023, ed. Buchler and Decker). We are pleased to announce that we have been able to bring together the majority of the text’s authors, who will briefly discuss their chapters before we turn to an informal Q&A session. Our contributors include:

• Michael Buchler (“Three Notions of Long Range Form in Guys and Dolls”)

• Gregory Decker (“Topical Interpretive Strategies in American Musical Theater: Three Brief Case Studies”)

• Nathan Beary Blustein (in absentia, “ ‘Was It Ever Real?’ Tonic Return via Stepwise Modulation in Broadway Songs”)

• Jonathan de Souza (“Music, Time, and Memory in Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years”)

• Danny Jenkins (“ ‘Isn’t It Queer?’ The Kinsey Sicks and the Act of Broadway Parody”)  

• Rachel Lumsden (“Lesbian Desire in Fun Home”)

• Drew Nobile (“Sondheim’s Dissonant Tonality”)

• Rachel Short (“The Changing Rhythms of Bridges and Ends”)

We will conclude the meeting with the annual business of electing a new co-chair; please submit nominations in advance of the meeting to makulumy.hills@columbia.edu.