Friday, 18 June

1:30 pm - 3:15 pm

Vaughan Williams Julian Onderdonk (West Chester University)
Eric Saylor (Drake University). Folk Song and Theatricality in Hugh the Drover and Sir John in Love
James Brooks Kuykendall (Calvin College). Vaughan Williams, The Poisoned Kiss, and the legacy of the Savoy Operas
Renée Chérie Clark (Hillsdale College). The Middle Years: Vaughan Williams, Art Song Composition, and the Development of a Style

Opera: Renegotiating Continental Models Claudia Macdonald (Oberlin Conservatory of Music)
JoAnn Taricani (University of Michigan). Subtext and Subversion: The Hidden Political Parody of The Dragon of Wantley (J.F. Lampe, 1737)
Christina Fuhrmann (Ashland University). Scott Repatriated? La Dame Blanche Crosses the Channel
Nathaniel Lew (St. Michael’s College). Socialist Realism in England: the Case of Alan Bush’s Wat Tyler

3:30 pm - 5:55 pm

Music and Social Improvement David Wright (Royal College of Music)
Dorothy De Val (York University). Morris and ‘Merrie England’: Mary Neal and the Espérence Club
Charles Edward McGuire (Oberlin Conservatory of Music). “Tunes Appropriate and Devotional”: Tonic Sol-fa and British Missionary Control in Madagascar
Denise Odello (UC-Santa Barbara). Music as Social Organizer: The Brass Band Movement of Nineteenth-Century Britain
Deborah Heckert (Stony Brook University). Sites of Modernity and the ‘History of Today’: English fin-de-Siècle Anxieties and the Case of the Music Hall

3:30 pm - 4:40 pm

Laments and Ballads JoAnn Taricani (University of Michigan)
Jessie Ann Owens (Brandeis University). Singing in a Mournful Key: English Laments
Stacey Jocoy-Houck (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). The Interrelation of Texts and Tunes in Early Modern Broadside Ballads

4:45 pm - 5:55 pm

Sacred Music and Class Identity Steven Plank (Oberlin Conservatory of Music)
Nicholas Temperley (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Class Distinctions in Eighteenth-Century Church Music
Ilias Chrissochoidis (Stanford University). From the Stage to the Cathedral: Cultural Mobility of English Oratorio in Mid-18th-Century Britain

8:00 pm

Concert
Rachel Lynn Waddell, Renée Chérie Clark, Mary Enid Haines, J. R. Fralick, and Dorothy DeVal will perform works by J. C. Bach, Bennett, Rutter, Vaughan Williams, Quilter, Novello, and others

Saturday, June 19

9:00 am - 11:25 am

Technology and the Canon: BBC Byron Adams (University of California - Riverside)
Christina Baade (McMaster University) “The Dancing Front”: Manliness, Dance, and “BBC Dancing Club” in World War II
Jenny Doctor (Trinity College of Music). ‘Virtual Concerts’ – the BBC’s Transmutation of Public Performances
Louis Niebur (UCLA). Orpheus, Orphèe, Orfeo: the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and the Reprocessing of Reinterpretation
David Simonelli (Youngstown State University). “A Whole Scene Going”: Criticism of BBC music programming during Progressive rock era, 1964- 1976

Female Voices Ruth Solie (Smith College)
Anita Gorman (Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania). Lady Nairne and the Song Culture of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Scotland
Michael J. Budds (University of Missouri-Columbia). Queen Victoria as Musical Hostess: The Royal Salon
Juliette Wells (Manhattanville College). George Elliot and the Victorian Amateur
Donna Parsons (University of Iowa). Penetrating the Recesses of their Genius: Artistry and Artistic Temperament in Henry Handel Richardson’s Maurice Guest

11:30 am - 12:15 pm

Lecture Recital
Julia Grella (CUNY Graduate Center). Music, Morals, and Metanoia in "The Awakening Conscience"

1:30 pm - 3:15 pm

Politics and Drama Andrew Walkling (SUNY - Binghamton)
Anne F. Widmayer and Peter W. Gibeau (University of Wisconsin at Washington County).
Musical Characterization in Thomas Southerne’s Oroonoko
Ian Gallacher (Syracuse University School of Law). “A Most Excellent Moral”: The Beggar’s Opera and Its Stories of Law and Society in Early Eighteenth Century London
Paul Rice (Memorial University of Newfoundland). “Staging” the French Revolution in London: Two Musical Treatments

Music and Nationalism Nicholas Temperley (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Jennifer Oates (Queens College, CUNY). The Ship o’ the Fiend: Hamish MacCunn as Scottish Bard
David C.H. Wright (Royal College of Music). Sir Frederick Bridge and the Musical Furtherance of British Imperialism: The 1902 Coronation
Alain Frogley (University of Connecticut). ‘The old sweet Anglo-Saxon spell’: Racial Discourses and the American Reception of British Music, 1895-1945

3:30 pm - 5:15 pm

Music and Popular Culture Alain Frogley (University of Connecticut)
Jeremy Smith and Jay Keister (University of Colorado, Boulder). From New Jerusalem to the Babylon of the Apocalypse: the Musical Poetics of Social Critique in British Progressive Rock of the Early 1970s
Kendra Leonard. Sviatoslav Richter and Rita: Art Music and Satire in Monty Python

Elgar and Holst Aidan Thomson (Queen's University, Belfast)
Byron Adams (UC-Riverside). “The Soul in Anguish”: Elgar’s Wagnerian Dialectic of Shame and Grace
Matthew Riley (University of Birmingham). “The Feminine Element Inside”: J.B. Priestly’s Elgar and the Topography Of ‘Deep England’
Christopher Scheer (University of Michigan). “Savitri, Savitri, I am Death”: The Conquest of Wagnerian Influence in The Music of Gustav Holst

 

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