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: Northstar Ballroom A
Date: Thursday, 06/Nov/2025
2:15pm
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3:45pm		 Jewish Musical Theater and Song
Location: Northstar Ballroom A
Chair: Ronit Seter
 

"A First-Class Yiddisha Tone": Investigating the Jewish Novelty Songs of Irving Berlin

Anya Smith


‘Synagogue on stage! God, how far art is from reality!’: Valentina Serova, Jewry, and opera in late imperial Russia

Nicholas Ong


“I belong in…”: Fiddler on the Roof and Cold War-Era Zionism

Dan Blim
4:00pm
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5:30pm		 The Prince of Porn: The Racialized Politics of Minneapolis's Music and Sex Culture During the 1980s (Critical Race Lecture)
Location: Northstar Ballroom A
 

Chair(s): Allie Martin, Diane Oliva

Presenter(s): Elliott Powell
Date: Friday, 07/Nov/2025
9:00am
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10:30am		 Writing about Music Otherwise
Location: Northstar Ballroom A
 

Chair(s): Martha Feldman, Elisabeth Le Guin

Presenter(s): Martha Feldman, Elisabeth Le Guin, Jessica Bissett Perea, Ramona Naddaff, Fumi Okiji
10:45am
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12:15pm		 Integrating Disciplinary Silos in Our Teaching
Location: Northstar Ballroom A
 

Chair(s): Sarah Lahasky

Discussant(s): Daniel Barolsky

Presenter(s): Louis Epstein, Cullyn Murphy, Tony Perman, Daniel Barolsky, Sarah Lahasky
12:30pm
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2:30pm		 Mozart Society of America Study Session & Business Meeting
Location: Northstar Ballroom A
4:00pm
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5:30pm		 Celebrating Scandinavian and Somali Music with the Nordstär Ensemble
Location: Northstar Ballroom A
Date: Saturday, 08/Nov/2025
7:15am
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8:45am		 AMS Board and Council Breakfast
Location: Northstar Ballroom A

Closed meeting.
10:45am
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12:15pm		 Singing from the original notation: the Libro Primo de la Croce (Rome: Pasoti and Dorico, 1526/1520) and the origins of the madrigal
Location: Northstar Ballroom A
Chair: Julie Emelyn Cumming, McGill University
Date: Sunday, 09/Nov/2025
9:00am
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12:00pm		 Charles Ives in 2025 (and Beyond): New Perspectives, Interpretations, and Predictions
Location: Northstar Ballroom A
 

Chair(s): David Thurmaier

Discussant(s): J. Peter Burkholder

 

Presentations of the Symposium

 

The Works of Ives in 2025: Preserving, Editing, Publishing, and Engaging

Donald Berman

 

“Ives, ‘Thoreau,’ and the Problematic Sublime: Resonances for the Twenty-First Century”

Denise Von Glahn

 

Ives in the Post-Genre

Derek Myler

 

Navigating Ives's Legacy: Elliott Carter’s Brass Quintet, The Ives Centennial, and Multiple Musical Identities

David Thurmaier

 

Reconsidering Charles Ives’s Problematic Language

Chelsey Hamm

 

Does Sexuality Play any Role in Charles Ives’s Music? Reflections on Two Versions of "The Housatonic At Stockbridge"

Judith Tick