Fridays, 12:30-1:30 PM — Room M344

This semester we will meet in person in Room M344 on the third floor of the Simon Music Center.

FALL 2022 SCHEDULE

September 16
Aaron Riedford, “Hillbilly Talent and Hootenanny Cultists: “Folk” in a 1950s Pop Music Landscape”

September 23
Sergio Ospina Romero, “The Dawn of the Jazz Age in the Caribbean: Dance, Consumer Culture, and the Imperial Shape of Modern Entertainment”

September 30
Christine Wisch, “(En)Gendering Music in El Correo de las Damas (1833–1835)”

October 7
Patrick Domico, “Composing Refuge: Medtner as Theorist”

[October 14, Fall Break]

October 21
Mingfei Li, “‘Ten Years of Turbulence’: Music and Musicians during the Chinese Cultural Revolution”

October 28
Alessandra Jones, “The Piedigrotta Festival and the Mysterious Origins of Neapolitan Song”

November 4
Nicolette van den Bogerd, “Composing the Polish Jewish Past: the Politics of Memory in Szymon Laks’s ‘Elégie pour les villages juifs’”

[November 10-13, AMS/SEM/SMT Annual Meeting]

November 18
TBA

[November 25, Thanksgiving Break]

December 2
Giovanni Zanovello, “Einstein’s Frottola and Its Legacy”

December 9
Devon Nelson, “Who Said Vivaldi Wrote the Same Concerto 500 Times?”