The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0489 Tuesday, 22 October 2013
From: Jeff Dailey <
Date: October 19, 2013 12:31:36 PM EDT
Subject: Greater New York Chapter of the American Musicological Society
The fall meeting of the Greater New York Chapter of the American Musicological Society will take place on Saturday, October 26th, at the Opera Learning Center in the Metropolitan Opera Guild’s headquarters at Lincoln Center. The theme for the meeting is “Music and Shakespeare.”
Here is the schedule:
12:00-12:15 Welcome
12:15-12:45 Introducing a new opera—Hamlet by Nancy van de Vate, with live performance of excerpts
12:45-2:15 1st paper session
Ren Draya - The Music in Shakespeare’s Othello
Samanatha Bassler - Music and Disability in Shakespeare
Ji Yeon Lee - Climax and Anti-Climax: Verdi's Musical Rendering of Lady Macbeth’s Dramatic Narrative
2:15-2:30 Break
2:30-3:30 Panel Discussion--Using Music to Teach Shakespeare; Using Shakespeare to Teach Music
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-5:15 2nd paper session
Alessandra Jones Massenet’s Scènes Dramatiques (1874) and the French Art of Distilling Shakespeare
Jacqueline Sholes - “Joseph Joachim’s Overture to Hamlet in Relation to Shakespeare and Liszt”
Melissa Khong - Ophelia as Creative Agency in Guillaume Lekeu’s Second Symphonic Etude
It will be held in the Opera Learning Center at 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, 6th floor. For directions, go to http://www.metguild.org/MOG/About_The_Guild/Guild_FAQ.html?TM=111menuid=118
Abstracts of the papers may be found on the chapter's website: http://ams-gny-meetings.blogspot.com/
All are welcome to attend.
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