9:30-11AM Literary and Linguistic Approaches
Chair: Carol Hess
David Kendall, “Behold Your Music!”: Music as a Force of Creation, Destruction, and Re-Creation in the Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis
Hermann Hudde, Rewriting, Memory, and Emotion: Is There a Latin American Contemporary Musical Chronicle in Miguel del Águila’s Music?
Elizabeth Lindau, Making (Non)sense of Brian Eno’s Lyrics
11-11:30AM Coffee Break (with destination breakout rooms)
11:30-1PM Music in the 1930s and 40s
Chair: Alexander Stalarow
Kenneth Marcus, Composing about Concentration Camps: The Case of Hanns Eisler’s German Symphony
Edmund Mendelssohn, Deconstructing the West: Andre Schaeffner’s Origin
Hannah Neuhauser, In the Shadows of Jazz: The Crucial Role of Classical Music in Film Noir
1-2PM Lunch Break
Business Meetings 2-2:15PM
2:15-3:45PM Building Worlds and Communities
Chair: David Paul
Jonathan Spatola-Knoll, Music as Gendered Representation: Understanding Carl Maria von Weber’s Paired Missae Sanctae (1818-19) as Pendant Portraits
Elizabeth Campbell, The Colored American Opera Company and Black Churches in Late-Nineteenth-Century Washington D.C.
Hesam Abedini, A Post-Intercultural Path: As wide as Iranian music, Jazz, and Western contemporary music