2013 Stony Brook Graduate Music
Symposium: Program
The program for the 2013 Stony
Brook Graduate Music Symposium is below. Information about getting to Stony
Brook can be found here,
and campus maps are available here.
We hope to see you at the conference!
Music of
the Spectacle
Friday, February 22 (1006 Humanities Building)
11:30 Coffee and Registration,
Light refreshments
12:15 Opening Remarks
Professor Judith Lochhead, Director of Graduate Studies
Benjamin Downs, Symposium Chair
12:30-1:30 Popular
Combinatorics
David Blake, chair
Lindsay Wright (University of
Chicago)
“Collage, Montage, and Meaning in Popular
Music”
Olivia Benware (University of New
Hampshire)
“Live-Looping, Andrew Bird, and the Spectacle
of the Modern One Man Band”
1:45-2:45 Spectacle, Out of
Doors
Kassie Hartford, chair
Glenda Bates (Stony Brook
University)
“Pomp, Performance, and Palio: Music’s Role in
Ceremony and Spectacle as a Construct of Cultural Identity and Civic Pride in
the Sienese Republic, 1260–1555”
Antonette Adiova (University of
Michigan)
“Street Dancing in Hybrid Space: Religiosity
and Commercialism in the Feast of Our Lady of Peñafrancia”
3:00-4:00 Spectacle across
Media
Bethany Cencer, chair
Michael Boerner (Pennsylvania State University)
“Erik Satie and the Influence of Parisian
Dadaism”
Monica Chieffo (Tufts University)
“Maria’s Veils, Salome’s Machinery: The Dance
Scene in Metropolis and Salome”
4:15-5:30 Keynote Address
Professor Ryan Minor, chair
Professor David
Levin (University of Chicago)
Reception to follow
Staller Center, Music Wing
8:00-9:00pm Humperdink’s Hansel and Gretel
Staller Center for the Arts
Saturday, February 23 (Tabler Conference Room)
8:30-9:00 Coffee and Bagels
9:00-10:30 Reconstructed Voices
Carlo Lanfossi, chair
Katherine Kaiser (Stony Brook University)
“Music Without Spectale?: Intimate Auralities
in Ruth Crawford Seeger’s Rissolty
Rossilty”
John Romey (Case Western Reserve University)
“Dancourt’s Early Divertissements: Musical
Theater At The Comédie-Français (1685–1699)”
Amanda L. C. Fontaine (University of New
Hampshire)
“’O Friends, Not These Strains:’ An Analysis
of the Use of Text and Textual Symbolism in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony”
11:00-12:00 Sonic Spaces
Benjamin Downs, chair
Nathan Friedman (Wesleyan
University)
“Modifying the Demeanor of the Galaxies:
Spectacle and Utopia in the Music of Iannis Xenakis”
Orit Hilewicz (Columbia
University)
“Morton Feldman’s Rothko Chapel Transforming the Boundaries of Individuality: A Study
in Musical Ekphrasis”
