Saturday, February 24, 2024

Virtual Meeting hosted by Dalhousie University

Dalhousie University, Henry Hicks Academic Administration Building.

This Chapter Meeting will take place with a virtual format on Zoom: presenters and participants will all join the meeting remotely.

Registration (free) for attending this remote, virtual meeting is found at this link. Two days before the meeting, registrations will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Chapter meeting (including the Zoom link for the meeting).

Please register before Wednesday, February 21, 2024.

Schedule of the Zoom Meeting (times are listed in both AST *and* EST time zones)

Abstracts for the presentations and speaker bios are found on this page.

11:15am Atlantic Standard Time (AST) / 10:15am Eastern Standard Time (EST): Welcoming Remarks by Jennifer Bain (Dalhousie University)

11:30am-1:30pm AST / 10:30am-12:30pm EST: Paper Session #1

  • Erinn E. Knyt (University of Massachusetts Amherst): “A Portrait of Musical Cubism: Ferruccio Busoni and the Sonatina Seconda”
  • Virginia Jansen (Boston University): “Heinrich’s America(s): Anthony Philip Heinrich’s Dawning of Music in Kentucky and the Early American Musical Landscape”
  • Jeana Melilli (University of Florida): “Performing the Sacred Feminine: Suor Cecilia Macca’s Settings of the Salve Regina and the Stabat Mater in Nineteenth Century Noto, Sicily”
  • Zac Stewart (Yale University): “What happened to Mère Marie?”

1:30pm-2:30pm AST / 12:30pm-1:30pm EST: Lunch Break

2:30pm-3:00pm AST / 1:30pm-2:00pm EST: Chapter Business Meeting

3:00pm-4:30pm AST / 2:00-3:30pm EST: Paper Session #2

  • Robert Whitehouse Eshbach (University of New Hampshire): “The “Sense” of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, op. 64”
  • James Thomas (Dalhousie University): “Grieg in Context: A Critical Comparison of Four Recorded Performances”
  • Winnie W.C. Lai (University of Pennsylvania): “‘Sing with You’: Sonic Activism and the Echoes of New Values in Hong Kong’s Shopping Malls”