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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 C

Date: Friday, 07/Nov/2025
9:00am - 10:30am	Medieval and Early Modern Chant Traditions Location: Great Lakes C Chair: John MacInnis, Dordt University Discussant: Giovanni Zanovello Our Lady of Guadalupe of Mexico and King Ferdinand VI of Spain: The Politics of Liturgy in Spanish Chant Sources Carlos Gámez Hernández Khabuvy, anenaiki: singing nonsense 12th-17th century Greek and Russian Orthodox chant Anastasia Shmytova Sounding the Dead: Wills, Chant, and Hybrid Commemorations in Early Modern Venetian Crete Simeon Willcox Brown
10:45am - 12:15pm	Memory and Meaning in Medieval and Early Modern Music Location: Great Lakes C Chair: Andrew H. Weaver, Catholic University of America The Quiet After the Cannons: Sounds of Peace After the Thirty Years’ War Barbara Dietlinger The Friend Who Got Around: Medieval Theater, Church Music, and a Rather Inappropriate Song Emily Zazulia Concerts that Shaped the Canon: Early Performances of Medieval and Renaissance Music Benjamin Ory
12:30pm - 2:00pm	Fellowship and Scholarship Opportunities at the University of Leuven (Belgium) Location: Great Lakes C
2:15pm - 3:45pm	Structure and Effect in Beethoven Location: Great Lakes C Chair: Stephen Husarik, University of Arkansas - Fort Smith Discussant: Sanna Pederson, University of Oklahoma "An die ferne Geliebte" between Death and Resurrection: Beethoven, Lobkowitz, and mourning in Vienna around 1800 Birgit Lodes Is counting a joke? Beethoven’s sketches for the Scherzo of Quartet Op. 127 Wanyi Li “Menial” Beethoven: Beethoven’s Four-Hand Grand Fugue and the Consequences of Musical Labor Elaine Sisman
4:00pm - 5:30pm	“Crepi il lupo”: Critiquing Labor, Class, and DEIA in the Early Careers of Opera Singers Location: Great Lakes C Chair(s): Megan Steigerwald Ille Presentations of the Symposium Pay to Play: Class, Labour, and the Hidden Costs of an Opera Career Margaret Cormier “Other Duties as Assigned”: Abuse, Labor, and Surviving the American Opera Industry’s Resident Artist Programs Anna Valcour Meeting “The Other’s” Need: An Analytic Framework to Evaluate DEI Initiatives in American Opera Companies as Acts of Care Danielle Buonaiuto

Date: Saturday, 08/Nov/2025
9:00am - 10:30am	War and Peace in France Location: Great Lakes C Chair(s): Kenneth Kreitner Presentations of the Symposium Compère and the Wartime Devotion of the French Royal Chapel (1494-95) Deanna Pellerano Hobrecht’s Motet Against War Robert Nosow Adolphe Sax’s Sonic Fusillades and the Military Politics of Timbral Homogeneity Samuel Nemeth
10:45am - 12:15pm	Floating: Music on/in Water Location: Great Lakes C Chair: Nick Stevens Microcosm/Macrocosm: The Hydrophonic Sound Art Practice of Tomoko Sauvage Annie Garlid Water Music on the Arno: The Argonautica of 1608 Kelley Harness An Ecology of Water and Orchestra: Deleuzian Becomings in Tan Dun’s Water Concerto Sheridan Zahl
2:15pm - 3:45pm	Hip Hop and Politics in the Age of Trump Location: Great Lakes C Chair(s): Justin D. Burton Discussant(s): Justin D. Burton Presentations of the Symposium "Will the Real Slim Shady Please Stand Up?": Eminem as Political Football Loren Kajikawa “I Am a God”: Kanye West, Religion, and the Right-Wing Cultural Strategy Micah English Rapwashing America A.D. Carson
4:00pm - 5:30pm	Women’s Music Networks in the United States: Illuminating Unseen Labor Location: Great Lakes C Chair(s): Kimberly Beck Hieb Presentations of the Symposium Women’s Clubs’ Nationalistic Promotion of American Women Composers Marian Wilson Kimber The Power of Women Mentoring Women: Agnes Woodward’s Whistling School and the Propagation of Whistling as an Art Maribeth Clark Henry Cowell, the National Federation of Music Clubs, and Musical Internationalism in the 1930s Danielle Fosler-Lussier
7:30pm - 9:30pm	AMS-SMT Trivia Night Location: Great Lakes C