MUSIC IN GOTHAM a constituent of Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation

The Graduate Center, The City University of New York

Adrienne Fried Block and John Graziano, co-directors


in cooperation with


PH.D/ D.M.A. Programs in Music

Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation

Public Programs at the Graduate Center


presents


A Century of Composing in America: 1820-1920


November 17-19, 2004


Schedule of Events


Wednesday, November 17

 

2:00                Welcome, President Horowitz, Provost Kelly

 

Session 1        2:15-3:10


                        Chair: Raoul Camus

 

                        Introductory Remarks 

                                    Adrienne Fried Block

“Waltzing in Manhattan: Claudio S. Grafulla, Composer, Arranger, and Band Director”

                                    Rena C. Kosersky

 

Session 2        3:20-4:30


                        Chair: Judith Tick

 

                        “Arthur Bird’s Overture in A Minor for Military Band”

                                    Robert H. Dunham

                        William Vincent Wallace as American Composer”

                                    Wayne V. Shirley

 

Session 3        7:00 

 

Concert of piano and vocal music, including works by Buck, Dresel, Goldbeck, Beach, Salter, Bristow, and J. R. Thomas

Vanessa Cuhna, Julia Grella, Paul Houghtaling, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, and Jin-Ok Lee.

Thursday, November 18

 

Session 4        9:30-10:40


                        Chair: Jeff Taylor


                        “Composing in the Theater: The Work of a Late Nineteenth-Century New York Music Director”

                                    Michael I. Pisani

“From “Dixie” to “Striking Ile”: the Walk-Arounds of Dan Emmett and Bryants’ Minstrels, 1858-1868"

                                    Jill Van Nostrand

 

Session 5        10:50-12:00


                        Chair:

 

“Composing Wild Indians in the American West, ca. 1912: operas by Mary Carr Moore and William F. Hanson"

                                    Catherine Parsons Smith 

                        “Verismo all’Americana: George Whitefield Chadwick’s The Padrone

                                    Marianne Betz

 

Session 6        1:00-2:45


                        Chair: Ora Frishberg Saloman


                        “Aus der neuen Welt: Otto Dresel’s New York Lieder

                                    David Francis Urrows

“Angelic Airs and Soothing Songs: Dudley Buck and the Victorian Art Song”

                                    N. Lee Orr

“Leopold Damrosch's Symphony in A major”

                                    Kati Agocs

 

Session 7        2:55-4:05 


                        Chair: H. Wiley Hitchcock


                        “Composing Music for Country Tastes, 1820-1920"

                                    Stephen Blum

“Joseph Lincoln Hall’s Sacred Songs”

                                    Patricia Woodard


Friday, November 19

 

Session 8        9:30-10:40


                        Chair: Ellie Hisama

 

“Latin Tinge or Mosaic? Mexican and Cuban Composers and Songwriters in New York, ca. 1880-1920"

                                    John Koegel

                        “Not in Kansas Anymore: The Wizard of Oz on Broadway, 1903"

                                    Edward A. Berlin

 

Session 9        10:50-12:00


                        Chair: Deane Root


                        “John Rogers Thomas and the New York Scene”

                                    John Graziano

“Composing in Black and White: The Songs of Sam Lucas”

                                    Sandra Graham

 

Session 10      1:00-2:45


                        Chair: Michael Broyles

 

“‘To Surround a Composer with Glory’: Works by Conductors of the Germania Musical Society”

                                    Nancy Newman

“Music in Mid Nineteenth-Century New York: Louis Jullien, American Orchestral Music, and George Bristow’s Jullien Symphony”

                                    Katherine K. Preston

                        “A Christmas Eve to Remember: William Henry Fry’s Santa Claus Symphony”

                                    Laura Moore Pruett

 

Session 11      2:55-4:40


                        Chair: Karen Ahlquist

 

“Refracting History: Ives and Emerson and the German Romantic Tradition in American Music”

                                    Christopher Bruhn

“Americanism Gone Awry? Henry F. Gilbert’s The Dance in Place Congo at the Metropolitan Opera”

                                    Carolyn Guzski

“Hanover Square “Accordion” to Charles Ives”

                                    Stuart Feder


Session 12

 

7:00                Concert of music by Hommann and Bird.

                                    Graduate Center String Quintet and Artis Wodehouse


All events are free and take place at
Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall
The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street)

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