Conference Agenda
The Online Program of events for the 2025 AMS-SMT Joint Annual Meeting appears below. This program is subject to change. The final program will be published in early November.
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Session Overview | |
| Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H |
| Date: Thursday, 06/Nov/2025 | |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Adapting Musical Performance for the Screen Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H Chair: Paul Sommerfeld Discussant: Julie Hubbert "Filming a Stage Performance is Not a Form of Art": Opera’s Divided Screen Cultures "I Detest Opera Done on the Small Screen": Maria Callas on Television Paradise as Paradox: The Fauré Requiem in American Television |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Theorizing and Mythologizing Whiteness Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H Chair: Chase Castle, University of Delaware White Mythologies in Messiaen “This is why we can’t have nice things:” White Feminism and the Cultural Value of Taylor Swift |
| Date: Friday, 07/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
In Fashion: Musical Women in the Long 18th Century Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H Chair: Alexandra Amati, Harvard University The Self-Fashioning of Musical Women, 1760–1800 Musical Parties Public and Private: Observing Music in the Journal of Miss Jane Ewbank of York, 1803–1805 Vittoria Tesi: the Conception of the Black Diva in Italian Opera, 1715–1775 |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Reich at 89 Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H Presentations of the Symposium Lingering Horrors: Trauma in Reich’s Different Trains, “After the War” Reich’s Philosopher: Ludwig Wittgenstein’s influence on Reich and his Reception in Music Theory The Evolution of Reich’s Tritone Bop Musical Translation and Recontextualization of Gerhard Richter’s Film Moving Picture (946-3) in Steve Reich’s Reich/Richter Reich and Rock: Evaluating a Conjunction Steve Reich and Intergenerational Discourse in American New Music |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
AMS Music and Marxism Study Group Business Meeting Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Singing Memory: Traditional and Folk Musicking in the British Isles Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H Chair: Trevor R. Nelson, Wichita State University Discussant: Christopher Scheer, Utah State University “All Lovers of Cornwall:” Defining the Cornish Celtic Folk through Song in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Singing the Past, Shaping the Present: Female Voices and the Festival as Archive |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
City Soundscapes Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H Chair: Winnie W. C. Lai, Dartmouth College Industrialized Cityscape in Ralph Vaughan Williams’ "A London Symphony" "The Sound of a Positive Dollar:" The Chicago Bucket Boys and Contestations of Public Spaces Within Chicago's Street Music Ordinance Debates Community, Race, and Politics Downtown |
| 6:15pm - 8:15pm |
Rice University Reception Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H |
| Date: Saturday, 08/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Day-to-day Music-Making in the Middle Ages: Re-thinking Historiographical Narratives through the Benedicamus Domino Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H Presentations of the Symposium Making Music in the Margins: Notation and Practice in Twelfth-Century Pistoia Polytextual Motets as “Simple” Polyphony Multipurpose Music in the Fifteenth Century: The Benedicamus Domino Carols |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Theorizing and Contextualizing the Harlem Renaissance Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H Chair: Paul Schleuse Thomas W. Talley’s Harlem Renaissance Musicology Reconceiving “Renaissance Happenings”: Blurred Boundaries and the Ethos of R. Nathaniel Dett’s The Ordering of Moses (1932) Seed Funding Black Theatre: Rockefeller Support of the Morehouse College and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Premiere of Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
Bad Instructions? Anarchy, Excess, and Scarcity in Music Notation Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
The Baccusi Files: Digital Forensics of a New Corpus of Renaissance Imitation Masses Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Practices of Memory and Resistance Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H Chair: Lesley Hughes Memorializing (and Manipulating?) 9/11 Musical Memory "Y2K Turned Out All Right": Vaporwave Livestreams as Therapuetic Memory Practice A New Collective Memory: The Sonic Battle Between Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall and Liberty Plaza |
| 7:45pm - 9:45pm |
Closing the Gap Between Musical and Philosophical Hermeneutics Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H |
| Date: Sunday, 09/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Sonic Worlds of Race and Ecology Location: Greenway Ballroom C-H Presentations of the Symposium “All Green Plants Swing”: Sonic Porosity in the Improvised Garden “Please Hold Me in the Green”: Blackness, Planthood, and Critical Botanical Listening |