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: Regency |
| Date: Wednesday, 05/Nov/2025 | |
| 8:00am - 5:00pm |
Eleventh New Beethoven Research Conference Location: Regency |
| Date: Thursday, 06/Nov/2025 | |
| 8:00am - 12:00pm |
Eleventh New Beethoven Research Conference Location: Regency |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
African Pianism: A Celebration of African Composers Location: Regency |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Gender and Embodiment in Chopin Location: Regency Chair: Jennifer Ronyak, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz Discussant: Jeffrey Kallberg, University of Pennsylvania Chopin as Pierrot: Letters, Puppets, and the Theater of Queer Pianism Chopin, Delacroix, and Improvisational Auditory-Visual Timbre Kobiece kroki (Feminine Steps): Expressions of Gender and Voice in Chopin’s Mazurkas |
| 8:30pm - 11:59pm |
10th Annual AMS/SMT After Dark Location: Regency |
| Date: Friday, 07/Nov/2025 | |
| 12:00am - 12:30am |
10th Annual AMS/SMT After Dark Location: Regency |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Ravel at 150: Enduring Insights and New Initiatives Location: Regency |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Instrumental and Sonic Masculinities Location: Regency Chair: Emanuele Senici, University of Rome La Sapienza Manifesting the Black “Middlebrow” and Negotiating Sounded Masculinity: Pianists Don Shirley, Rachmaninoff, and Liberace “Semper Fi, Do or Die”: Hegemonic Masculinity in a Homosocial Musical Knob Interfaces, Masculinity, and the Politics of Control |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
East and West Location: Regency Chair: Nancy Rao, Rutgers University Pentatonicism, Serialism, Hindemithian “Harmonic Fluctuation,” and Referential Collection Patterns in Zhongrong Luo’s “Picking Lotus Flowers at the Riverside” Sonata Genre and Korean Influence: Eastern and Western in Isang Yun’s First Symphony Circles of Fragile Branches in East Asian Fifth-Relations |
| 7:00pm - 8:30pm |
SMT Composition Interest Group Meeting Location: Regency |
| Date: Saturday, 08/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Form II Location: Regency Chair: Andrew Aziz, San Diego State University Climax and Excess in the Song Forms of Jim Steinman Cadenza Reviving a One-Time Theme: The Case of the Dramatic Transition Theme in Mozart’s Piano Concertos K. 467 and K. 482 Picking up the Pieces: Form in Late Beethoven |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Experience and Agency in 20th Century Music Location: Regency Chair: Orit Hilewicz, Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University Experiencing the Music of Brian Ferneyhough Imagining Posthumanist Musical Agency with George Crumb’s Music for a Summer Evening When a composer does not want their performers to succeed: examining the vocal and pianistic styles of Strauss’s Der Krämerspiegel (1918) |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
Chinese Guzheng Performance from Antiquity to Modernity Location: Regency |
| Date: Sunday, 09/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Musicking Fans Location: Regency Chair: J. Daniel Jenkins, University of South Carolina Analyzing Fan Authorship in Vocaloid Music First Time Hearing: YouTube Reaction Videos and the Commodification of the Inexpert Listener Participatory Covers, Audience Choirs, and Jacob Collier's Public Music Theory |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
Choreography Location: Regency Chair: Rebecca Simpson-Litke, University of Manitoba Blooming in Gesture: The Embodied Choreography in Yao Chen’s Lotus Aloft (2014) Upping the Ante: Balanchine’s Choreography of Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements Choreopictography: the hermeneutic implications projective symmetry and rhythmic formulae have in Prokofiev’s The Stone Flower |