The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0489  Tuesday, 22 October 2013

 

From:        Jeff Dailey <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>

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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