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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9:00am 200 Years of Italian Opera in the United States: 1825–2025 Location: Great Lakes B
Chair(s): Davide Ceriani
Presentations of the Symposium
Composing Italian opera in 1820s New York: European fantasies in Manuel García’s L’amante astuto
Francesco Milella González Luna
Lorenzo Da Ponte’s Longing to Return as a Librettist
Francesco Zimei
“In the Fairyland of Roast Beef and Plum Pudding”: The 1833 Controversy on Italian Opera
Giuseppe Gerbino
10:45am Chinese and Chinese-American Operatics Location: Great Lakes B Chair: Peng Liu
Cantonese Opera, Historical Reality vs. Contemporary Popular Perception: "Jyutkek Daklongpou" and Its Forgotten Predecessors
Yi Ching {Kevin} Tam
Sound, Erasure and Archive of the Invisible: Chinese Theater in 19th Century California
Nancy Rao
12:30pm New Work in LGBTQ Music Studies Location: Great Lakes B
Chair(s): Lee K. Tyson
Presentations of the Symposium
Queer Shaped Notes: Experiencing political and social transformation through Sacred Harp Singing
Christopher Hodges
‘On the other side of a television screen’”: The t4t affective world of I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
Dan Arthur Levy
Fabulatory Loudness: Archiving Transfeminine Performance in the Americas
Alejandrina Medina
On A Lesbian Relationship with the Electric Guitar: How Queer, Female Guitarists Destabilize and Reimagine the Instrument’s Material and Symbolic Lives
Erin Fitzpatrick
2:15pm (Re)sounding Europe: Borders, Boundaries, Belonging Location: Great Lakes B
Chair(s): Peter J. Schmelz
Presenter(s): Laura Emmery , Ivana Prica , Iryna Tukova , Leah Batstone , Gabrielle Cornish , Antoni Michnik , Kevin C. Karnes , Peter J. Schmelz , Jānis Daugavietis , Nana Sharikadze , Maia Sigua
4:00pm Soviet Legacies Location: Great Lakes B Chair: Olga Haldey
Fraud, Cultural Politics, and Early Soviet Bureaucracy at the Tbilisi Opera House
Céleste Pagniello
Mazowsze and the Modernization of Polish Culture: Folk Music, Socialist Realism, and Postwar Reconstruction
Sven Joseph
Nikolay Medtner and the Development of Soviet Music
Patrick Hutcheson Domico
9:00am Opera and Untold Black Stories Location: Great Lakes B
Chair(s): Gwynne Kuhner Brown
Presentations of the Symposium
Dispelling Racial Othering through Opera: Edmond Dédé's Morgiane (1887)
Candace L Bailey
Singer, Composer, Librettist: Current engagement with Black Opera and examining the careers of Denyce Graves, Nkeiru Okoye, and Sandra Seaton
Naomi André
"Divided Soul": Historiography and Biography in The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson
Karen M. Bryan
10:45am Black Racial Representations on the Musical Stage Location: Great Lakes B Chair: Marva Carter
“With just a leavening of low comedy”: John W. Isham’s Black Chorines Circa 1900
Elea Proctor
Race, Representation, and the Limits of Dramaturgy
Ryan Minor
Rewriting Wickedness: Black Feminine Power, Labor, and Race from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) to Wicked (2024)
Virginia Christy Lamothe
2:15pm European Bellephonics: The Sounds of War and Peace Location: Great Lakes B Chair: Jacek Blaszkiewicz
Contested, Controlled, Blended: Catholic Street Song in the Urban Soundscapes of Nineteenth-Century France
Katharine Ellis
“The cannons fired shots as a call to prayer”: Sound, Ritual, and Conquest in the Austrian Habsburg–Ottoman Thirteen Years’ War (1593–1606)
D Linda Pearse
Hidden Resistance, Unknowing Collaboration: The Paradox of French Prisoner of War Music during World War II
Mary Margaret Zrull
4:00pm Concerts and Commerce in the 18th and 19th centuries Location: Great Lakes B Chair: Beverly Wilcox , California State University, Sacramento
Music, Manners, and Money: The Bach-Abel Subscription Concerts, 1773-1780
Ann van Allen-Russell
Virtuosity and Economics: Johann Christian Bach’s Symphonies Concertantes in Eighteenth-Century Public Concerts
Baris Demirezer
Visualizing Women’s Roles and Networks in the Concert Life of 1820s Vienna
Mary Elizabeth Kirchdorfer
