MUSIC AND THE STRUCTURES OF SOCIETY

12th Annual Conference and Concert

Saturday, April 14, 2012

The University of Texas at Austin

Austin, Texas

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

8:30–9:30

Registration & Breakfast

9:00–10:30

Session: Institutional Music, WEL 2.304

Moderator: Cory LaFevers

Performing the “Guru” in Karnatic Music Society

Myranda Harris, University of North Texas

Music, Nationalism, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Lindsey Evans, The University of Texas at Austin

Revolución-Reinvención: Revoulationary Ideology and Emiliano Salvador’s

“La contradanza”

Sarah Town, Princeton University

10:30–10:45

Break

10:45–12:15

Session: Meaning in Media, WEL 2.304

Moderator: Eric Hogrefe

TV Casualty: the American Contradiction in the Music of the Misfits (1978–1983)

Billy Hunter, Hunter College

Teaching Through Music: Sesame Street Music and Early-Childhood Education

Kathryn Ostrofsky, University of Pennsylvania

Remarkable Men: Music, Emotion, and Homosociality in The Great Escape and

Lawrence of Arabia

Rebecca Fülöp, University of Michigan

12:15–1:30

Lunch in ACES Lobby, catered by O’s Campus Cafe

1:30–3:00

Keynote Address, WEL 2.304

Moderator: Alex Newton

Rethinking What Orchestras Do—A Humanities Mandate

Joseph Horowitz

3:00–3:15

Break

3:15–4:45

Panel: Music and the Structures of Society, WEL 2.304

Moderator: Charles Carson

Joseph Horowitz

Peter Bay

Douglas Dempster

Marianne Gedigian

Kathleen Panoff

CONCERT PROGRAM

7:30

Concert, Jessen Auditorium, HRH 2.104

Leap

Benjamin Taylor, Indiana University

Sonorous Ensemble

Latin Bridge Suite

Taylor Glanton, Georgia State University

Amy Harris – violin, Nathan Harrenstein – cello, Jesse Pieper – piano

Doppelgänger

Simon Hutchinson, University of Oregon

Nathan Koch – bassoon

Ten Variations

Gilad Cohen, Princeton University

Andrew Parker – oboe, Charlie Magnone – piano, Skyros Quartet

Assembly Lines

Ian Dicke, The University of Texas at Austin

Sonorous Ensemble