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Thursday, July 25

11:00 am:        Registration Opens; (Bibbins Second Floor Hallway; Refreshments in Bibbins 233)

12:30 pm:        Conference Welcome (Stull Recital Hall)

1:30 pm:          Paper Session 1:   Post-War reflections (Bibbins 224)  Chair: Imani Danielle Mosley (University of Florida)

·      “Public Charity, Private Memory, and Musical Inscriptions in the British Legion Album of 1924”:  Stewart Duncan (University of Missouri–Kansas City)

·      “‘I dreamed the rarest dream’: new approaches to Howard Ferguson’s The Dream of the Rood”:  Tom Edney (Royal College of Music, London)

2:30 pm:          Coffee/Tea Break; refreshments available in Bibbins 233

3:00 pm:          Concurrent Paper Sessions

Session 2A: Authenticities (Bibbins 223)   Chair:  Vicki P. Stroeher (Marshall University)

·      “Anglo-American Allies? The BBC, the NBC, and the Televising of Menotti’s The Saint of Bleecker Street”:  Danielle Ward-Griffin (Rice University)

·      “‘Undoing ‘Manipulation by an Ignorant Hand’: Charles Villiers Stanford’s Edition of the Petrie Collection”:   Adèle Commins (Dundalk Institute of Technology)

·      “Instruments as specimens: how the photographs of 19th-century English instrument collections made organology a science”:  Maia Perez (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign)

Session 2B: Instrumentalists and their causes (Bibbins 224) Chair: Christina Bashford (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign)

·      “Performing Rights: Underscoring the Activities of Cellist May Mukle Within the Women’s Emancipation Movement in Britain”:  Anastasia Zaponidou (Bangor University)

·      “‘From a Hungarian into an English cause’: Beatrice Harrison and Zoltán Kodály’s Solo Cello Sonata, Op. 8”:  Rebecca Thumpston (University of Nottingham)

·      “Ernst Pauer and the Popularization of the Past”:  Jonathan Kregor (College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati)

4:30 pm:          Coffee/Tea Break; refreshments available in Bibbins 233

5:00 pm:          Film screening Hidden Music: Within Ian Venables (Stull Recital Hall), discussion with director Anthony Cheng;  Chair:  Justin Vickers (Illinois State University)

6:30 pm:          Opening Reception (Skybar, Kohl Building)

Friday, July 26

9:00 am:          Concurrent Paper Sessions

Session 3A: Broader perspectives (Bibbins 223)  Chair:  Stacey Jocoy (Library of Congress)

·      “Handel and the Heavens: William Herschel’s Dual Career”:  Sarah Clemmens Waltz (University of the Pacific / Stockton, California)

·      “‘God’s Terrible Voice’: the experience of seventeenth century disaster through sound and song”:  Leah Wenger (The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University)

·      “Entanglements of Music and Industry: Railway Music and London c. 1890–1914”:  Emily MacCallum (University of Toronto)

Session 3B: Choral music (Bibbins 224)  Chair:  Dorothy de Val (York University, Toronto)

·       “A Clear Voice: sonic materiality and vocal technique within British choral ensembles”: Jessica Edgar (University of Oxford)

·       “‘A new feature’: an exploration of the Dublin Feis Ceoil’s first forays into Irish-language choral singing, 1906–1915”:  Helen Doyle (Technological University, Dublin, Conservatoire Ireland)

·       “Ethnic Sounds in Sacred Spaces: A Survey of Catholic London 1900-1914”:  Tavish John Daly

10:30 am:        Coffee/Tea Break; refreshments available in Bibbins 233

11:00 am:        Keynote Presentation: “British Music:  Alive and Very Well," (Stull Recital Hall); Moderated by Lucy Walker, featuring Errollyn Wallen, Kerry Andrew, and Sarah Angliss

12:30 pm:        Lunch Break

2:00 pm:          Concurrent Paper Sessions

Session 4A: Localized musicking (Bibbins 223)  Chair: Alison Mero (Clemson University Press)

·      “Argraffiadau Cymraeg/Welsh Impressions: Exploring Welsh Identity in the Music of Three ‘Cardiff Group’ Composers”:  Nicholas Jones (Cardiff University)

·      “Concert Life in Industrial Manchester in European Perspective, 1799-1858”:  Oliver Puckey (St. Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge)

·      “Girton’s Musical War: Music on the Home Front in a Cambridge Women’s College, 1914–1918”:  Kathleen McGowan (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign)

Session 4B: Varieties of Victorian song (Bibbins 224) Chair:  Jennifer Oates (Carroll College)

·       “‘The Twilight of Eternal Day’: Reading Faith in Maude Valérie White’s Four Songs from In Memoriam”:  Alison Gilbert (University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire)

·       “Christina Rossetti’s Sacred, Popular, and Pedagogical Song Settings”:  Esther Hu (Boston University / Harvard University)

·       “‘The land… sings her name’: Women, Song, and Resistance at the Battle of the Braes”:  Rachel Bani (Converse College)

3:30 pm:          Coffee/Tea Break; refreshments available in Bibbins 233

4:00 pm:          Concurrent Paper Sessions

Session 5A: Public / Private (Bibbins 223)  Chair:  Deborah Heckert (Stony Brook University)

·      “‘Soft and low, by the church's open door’: Sound, Space, and Staging in Claribel's Last Song”:  Whitney Thompson (University of Cincinnati)

·      “’Try This on Your Piano’: George Grossmith [III] and Sheet Music from Early-Twentieth-Century Musical Theater”:  Laura Kasson Fiss (Michigan Technological University)

·      “Creating the British pub: Instruments as symbols of authenticity”:  Núria Bonet (University of Plymouth)

Session 5B: Music and royal relevance (Bibbins 224)  Chair:  Amanda Eubanks Winkler (Rutgers University)

·         “Dirge of the Three Queens: Masculine and Feminine Musical Traits in William Byrd’s Death Songs for Mary I, Elizabeth I, and Mary Stuart”:  Charissa Garrigus (Butler University)

·         “‘Lighting Up the Nation’?: Sounding Multicultual Britain and the Commonwealth at the 2023 Coronation Concert”:  Trevor Nelson (Wichita State University) and Christina Baade (McMaster University)

·         “A new Jerusalem: Thomas Tallis, Elizabeth I, and the music of the Royal Maundy”:  Alexandra Siso (Barcelona, Spain)

5:30 pm:          Dinner Break

7:15 pm:          Concert: For all the Many Queens, by the Cleveland Chamber Choir, Gregory Ristow, Artistic Director (Kulas Recital Hall)

Saturday, July 27

9:00 am:          Concurrent Paper Sessions

Session 6A: Doing opera (Bibbins 223)  Chair:  Christina Fuhrmann (Baldwin Wallace University)

·       "Rediscovering Materials and Assessing the Early British Operas of Julius Benedict (1804-1885)":  Philip C. Carli (Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester / Rochester, New York)

·       “Handel, Queen Caroline, and the Politics of the Ariosto Operas of the 1730s”:  Joseph V. Nelson (College of the Holy Cross)

·       “‘Glutted with Operas: the shambolic London season of 1765”:  Michael Burden (University of Oxford)

Session 6B: Correspondences (Bibbins 224)  Chair: Christopher Scheer (Utah State University)

·       “Characterization through Intonatsia: Alan Bush’s Correspondence with Boris Kotlyarov”:  Thornton Miller (Illinois State University)

·       “Continuation and tradition? A Stanfordian theory on the cultural function of the post-1945 British symphony”:  Jonathan Clinch (Royal Academy of Music, London)

·       “The Golden Cantata: Arthur Bliss’s Collaboration with Kathleen Raine”:  Eric McElroy (London, England)

10:30 am:        Coffee/Tea Break; refreshments available in Bibbins 233

11:00 am:        Concurrent Paper Sessions

Session 7A: Masculinities (Bibbins 223)  Chair:  Christina Baade (McMaster University)

·      “‘England would have had the honour of producing a second Mozart’: aspirational nationalism, musical masculinity, and the George Frederick Pinto revival”:  Lauren Ganger (Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester)

·      “Edward Sackville-West’s Public-Private Duality and English Modernism’s Queer Spaces”:  Hilary Seraph Donaldson (University of Toronto)

Session 7B: Lecture-recital:  “A Wilkie Collins songbook” (Bibbins 224)

·      Dorothy de Val (York University, Toronto), Allan Atlas (CUNY Graduate Center), Susanna McCleary (soprano and violin), Samuel Jungman (tenor)

12:00 pm:        Lunch Break

1:30 pm:          Concurrent Paper Sessions

Session 8A: Handel here, Handel there (Bibbins 223)  Chair: Steven Plank (Oberlin College Conservatory)

·      “Eighteenth-Century Freelancer: Jean Christian Kytch and Building a Music Career in London, 1707-38”:  Blake Johnson (Campbellsville University)

·      “‘What a father the lord has bestowed upon me’: The Fowke Family, Handel, and Imperial Gender in Eighteenth-Century Calcutta”:  Peter Kohanski (University of North Texas)

·      “Staging the Other, Fashioning the Self: British-Indian Colonial Encounter in Handel’s Poro re dell’Indie”:  Anushka Kulkarni (University of California–Davis)

Session 8B: Music and British modernism (Bibbins 224)  Chair: Eric Saylor (Drake University)

·      “‘Per la mano sinistra, per la mano destra’: British piano concertos inspired by single-handed pianists”:  Linda Lanchis (“Gheorghe Dima” National Music Academy / Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

·      “The early development of George Benjamin’s musical style”:  Martin Scheuregger (University of Lincoln)

·      “Van Dieren and Schoenberg in Berlin, and proto-serial processes in van Dieren’s Sketch No. 1”:  David Byrne (University of Manitoba)

3:00 pm:          Coffee/Tea Break; refreshments available in Bibbins 233

3:30 pm:          Conference Roundtable:  “Where we’ve been (and where we might be going): NABMSA and British music studies from 2003 to the present":  convened by Charles Edward McGuire (Oberlin College Conservatory) (Stull Recital Hall)

5:30 pm:          No-host cocktail hour, The Feve, 30 S. Main Street, Upstairs, Back Room (please note that this location is not wheelchair accessible)

6:30 pm:          Conference Banquet: Mill on Main, 95 S. Main Street

Sunday, July 28

9:00 am:          Concurrent Paper Sessions

Session 9A: Marketable personas (Bibbins 223)  Chair: Núria Bonet (University of Plymouth)

·      “The Victorian ‘Poetess’ and the Musical Marketplace”:  Katherine Fry (King’s College, London)

·      “Thomas Weelkes, Antiquarianism, and the English Literary Imagination”:  Samantha Bassler (Rutgers University at Newark and New York University)

·      “Paddy jumps Jim Crow, redux: the stage Irishman as both model and foil for blackface minstrelsy":  Sarah Gerk (Binghamton University)

Session 9B: Back to Britten (Bibbins 224)  Chair: Philip Rupprecht (Duke University)

·      “The staging, production, and reception of Britten’s The Turn of the Screw in the UK from 1954 to 2022”:  Yaou Zhang (University of York)

·      “Britten’s Mothers: Putting the ‘Charm’ in the Lullaby”:  Vicki P. Stroeher (Marshall University)

·      “‘Shrills and echoes around the church, now behind us’: Choreographing the Sacred in Britten’s The Burning Fiery Furnace”:  Imani Danielle Mosley (University of Florida)

10:30 am:        Coffee/Tea Break; refreshments available in Bibbins 233

11:00 am:        Paper Sessions

Session 10A: Reassessing narratives (Bibbins 223)  Chair: Dawn Grapes (Colorado State University)

·      “The English Bach revival and the natural theological argument”:Ruth Eldredge Thomas (Durham University)

·      “‘Booted, to betoken that he was vates cothurnatus’: Thomas Watson as Bonny Boots”:  Jeremy L. Smith (University of Colorado–Boulder)

·      "Beyond the nightingale: (re)covering Jenny Lind":  Timothy Bostwick (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign)

Session 10B: Heirs and rebels:  the usual suspects (Bibbins 224)  Chair: Byron Adams (University of California–Riverside)

·      “‘[…] wild doings in wild countries appeal to us as nothing else could do’: British conceptions of landscape and wilderness in Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Scott of the Antarctic":  Kirsten Barker (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign)

·      “The historiography of Gustav Holst: reconsidering Imogen Holst and At The Boar’s Head (1925)":  Christopher M. Scheer (Utah State University)

·      "Wedgwoods and Darwins and Vaughan Williamses (oh my!): rebels, heirs, and the making of a composer":  Eric Saylor (Drake University)

12:30 pm: Conference concludes

1:00pm-6:00pm Optional trip to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (bus location TBA)

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