9:30 a.m., Registration
10:00 a.m., Welcome
10:15 a.m., Keynote address, Deane Root

11:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m., Session 1
Chair: Denise Von Glahn, Florida State University
• Patrick Warfield, "The Georgetown Amateur Orchestra of Washington, D.C., 1880-1900"
• Karen Ahlquist, "Cincinnati's Festival Orchestras, 1873-82: Redefining Local Achievement on National Terms."

2:00-3:20 p.m., Session 2
Chair: George Boziwick, Music Division, New York Public Library
• James Deaville, "The Philharmonic Society, Hans Balatka and W. S. B. Mathews: Orchestra, Conductor, and Critic in Pre-fire Chicago"
• Adrienne Fried Block, "Thinking about Serious Music in New York City, 1840-1880"
• Jeffrey Noonan, "Image and Likeness-The American Mandolin Orchestra"

3:30-4:50 p.m., Session 3
Chair: Judith Tick, Northeastern University
• William Weber, “Programming in Boston’s Earliest Orchestral Series, 1840-1855”
• Mary Wallace Davidson, "John Sullivan Dwight and the Harvard Musical Association Orchestra: A Help or a Hindrance?"

• 7:30 p.m., New York Philharmonic Concert, and Post-Concert Reception, Avery Fisher Hall.

9:30-10:50 a.m., Session 4
Chair: Christopher Gibbs, Bard College
• Mark Clague, "Building the American Orchestra: The Nineteenth-century Roots of Twenty-First Century Musical Institutions"
• John Spitzer, "American Musicians' Unions in the Nineteenth Century"

11:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m., Session 5
Chair: Ruth Henderson, City College of New York, CUNY, Emerita
• Nancy Newman, "Gender and the Germanians: 'Art-Loving Ladies' in Nineteenth-Century Concert life"
• Anna-Lisa P. Santella, "Modeling Music: Early Structures of Women's Orchestras"

2:00-3:20 p.m., Session 6
Chair: Richard Kramer, The Graduate Center, CUNY
• Barbara Haws, "U.C. Hill, The First American Musician Abroad (1835-36):
  What He Learned that Led to the Founding of the New York Philharmonic"
• Wolfram Boder, "Musical Training by Louis Spohr and Its Influence on American Orchestral Culture"

3:30-5:30 p.m., Session 7
Chair: Steven Baur, Dalhousie University
• Katherine Preston, "A Concentration of Talent on Our Musical Horizon":
  The 1853-54 American Tour by Jullien’s Extraordinary Orchestra
• Ora Frishberg Saloman, "Leopold Damrosch's Orchestra, 1877-1878: Background, Instrumentation, Reception"
• Brenda Nelson-Strauss, "Sowing the Seeds: Theodore Thomas's Contribution to American Music"

Saturday, 19 January

9:00-9:30 a.m., Coffee and pastries provided by AMS-GNY Chapter.

9:30-10:50 a.m., Session 8
Chair: Jeffrey Taylor, Brooklyn College, CUNY
• Bethany S. Goldberg, "The Orchestral Potential of Bernard Ullman's Academy of Music"
• John Graziano, "The Invisible Entertainers: Theater Orchestras in New York City, 1850-1900"

11:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m., Session 9
Chair: Larry Hamberlin, Middlebury College
• Jonas Westover, "From Faust to Paganini in China: The German Saloon Orchestra in New York City During the 1860s"
• John Koegel, "The Sunday ‘Sacred Concert' and Orchestral Music in Later Nineteenth-Century New York City"

12:30-1:30 p.m., Lunch provided by Music in Gotham and the AMS-GNY Chapter.

1:30-3:00 p.m., Conference Wrap-up and Panel Session: Participants TBA