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Wednesday, November 17
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2:00
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Welcome, President Horowitz, Provost Kelly
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Session 1 - 2:15-3:10
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Chair: Raoul Camus
Introductory Remarks - Adrienne Fried Block
"Waltzing in Manhattan: Claudio S. Grafulla, Composer, Arranger, and Band Director" - Rena C. Kosersky
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Session 2 - 3:20-4:30
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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
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Session 3 - 7:00
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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.
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Thursday, November 18
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Session 4 - 9:30-10:40
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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
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Session 5 - 10:50-12:00
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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
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Session 6 - 1:00-2:45
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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
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Session 7 - 2:55-4:05
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Chair: H. Wiley Hitchcock
"Composing Music for Country Tastes, 1820-1920" -
Stephen Blum
"Joseph Lincoln Hall's Sacred Songs" -
Patricia Woodard
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Friday, November 19
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Session 8 - 9:30-10:40
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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
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Session 9 - 10:50-12:00
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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
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Session 10 - 1:00-2:45
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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
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Session 11 - 2:55-4:40
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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
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Session 12 - 7:00
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Concert of music by Hommann and Bird.
Graduate Center String Quintet and Artis Wodehouse
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