Spring Meeting, 14 May 2022
128 Morrison Hall, UC Berkeley
9 to 9:30 light breakfast
9:30 – 11:00 Paper Session 1
Chair: Pierpaolo Polzonetti, UC Davis
Mara Lane (UC Berkeley), “Acting Surprised in Le Nozze di Figaro and Il barbiere di Siviglia”
Nathaniel Pergamit (San Jose State University), “Buried Treasure in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park: Cultural Trends Demonstrated by Golden Gate Park Concert Band’s Programming”
Edmund Mendelssohn (UC Berkeley), “A Typology of Musical Kitsch”
11-11:15 break
11:15 – 12:15 Book Panel featuring James Davies (UC Berkeley), Beth Levy (UC Davis), and Rachel Vandagriff (San Francisco Conservatory of Music); moderated by Mary Ann Smart (UC Berkeley)
12:15 – 2:00 lunch and Many Musics of America brainstorm session
2:00 – 3:30 Northern California Prize competition
Chair: Kirsten Paige, North Carolina State University
Sean Keenan (UC Santa Cruz), “Semiotics of Text-Based Compositions: An Analysis of La Monte Young’s Compositions 1960”
Joseph Finkel (UC Santa Cruz), “‘Listen to those Candy Apple Colors’: Harold Budd and ‘Pretty’ Music”
Tracy Monaghan (UC Davis), “‘High Camp Femme Antics’ and Music in The Birdcage and La Cage Aux Folles”
3:30 – 4:00 break
4:00 – 5:30 Business Meeting and Reception