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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
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