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: Great Lakes B |
| Date: Friday, 07/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
200 Years of Italian Opera in the United States: 1825–2025 Location: Great Lakes B Presentations of the Symposium Composing Italian opera in 1820s New York: European fantasies in Manuel García’s L’amante astuto Lorenzo Da Ponte’s Longing to Return as a Librettist “In the Fairyland of Roast Beef and Plum Pudding”: The 1833 Controversy on Italian Opera |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
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 Sound, Erasure and Archive of the Invisible: Chinese Theater in 19th Century California |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
New Work in LGBTQ Music Studies Location: Great Lakes B Presentations of the Symposium Queer Shaped Notes: Experiencing political and social transformation through Sacred Harp Singing ‘On the other side of a television screen’”: The t4t affective world of I Saw the TV Glow (2024) Fabulatory Loudness: Archiving Transfeminine Performance in the Americas On A Lesbian Relationship with the Electric Guitar: How Queer, Female Guitarists Destabilize and Reimagine the Instrument’s Material and Symbolic Lives |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
(Re)sounding Europe: Borders, Boundaries, Belonging Location: Great Lakes B |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Soviet Legacies Location: Great Lakes B Chair: Olga Haldey Fraud, Cultural Politics, and Early Soviet Bureaucracy at the Tbilisi Opera House Mazowsze and the Modernization of Polish Culture: Folk Music, Socialist Realism, and Postwar Reconstruction Nikolay Medtner and the Development of Soviet Music |
| Date: Saturday, 08/Nov/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Opera and Untold Black Stories Location: Great Lakes B Presentations of the Symposium Dispelling Racial Othering through Opera: Edmond Dédé's Morgiane (1887) Singer, Composer, Librettist: Current engagement with Black Opera and examining the careers of Denyce Graves, Nkeiru Okoye, and Sandra Seaton "Divided Soul": Historiography and Biography in The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson |
| 10:45am - 12:15pm |
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 Race, Representation, and the Limits of Dramaturgy Rewriting Wickedness: Black Feminine Power, Labor, and Race from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) to Wicked (2024) |
| 2:15pm - 3:45pm |
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 “The cannons fired shots as a call to prayer”: Sound, Ritual, and Conquest in the Austrian Habsburg–Ottoman Thirteen Years’ War (1593–1606) Hidden Resistance, Unknowing Collaboration: The Paradox of French Prisoner of War Music during World War II |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
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 Virtuosity and Economics: Johann Christian Bach’s Symphonies Concertantes in Eighteenth-Century Public Concerts Visualizing Women’s Roles and Networks in the Concert Life of 1820s Vienna |