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"Music and Memory"

9th Annual Conference--The University of Texas at Austin-- Saturday, March 7, 2009

 

GAMMA-UT, the Graduate Association of Music and Musicians at UT, announces its ninth annual conference, “Music and Memory," to be held on Saturday March 7, 2009 at The University of Texas at Austin (Doty Fine Arts Building DFA 2.204). Graduate students from the areas of music theory, composition, musicology, and ethnomusicology will meet to share their research. Composers will present their works at a concert on Saturday night in Bates Recital Hall.

 

Registration begins at 8:30am, and the first session will start at 9:30 am in the Doty Fine Arts Building (DFA) 2.204.

 

This year’s keynote speaker is Aaron Fox. Dr. Fox is an associate professor of ethnomusicology at Columbia University, where he is also chair of the Department of Music. His publications include the 2004 book Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture (Duke University Press) as well as articles on country music, music/language relationships, and working-class culture. Dr. Fox is currently working on a musical heritage repatriation project of field recordings with the Iñupiat community of Barrow, Alaska.

 

 

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

DOTY FINE ARTS BUILDING 2.204

 

8:30 – 9:30                           Registration & Breakfast

 

 

9:30 – 11:00                         Session 1: “Nostalgia as a Frame”

                                                Moderator: Kim Schafer

                  

Paradise Remembered:

Nostalgia in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony

Ryan Kangas, University of Texas

 

“Nuevo-Tango”: Nostalgia and the Music of the Gotan Project

Emily McManus, University of Minnesota

 

“C is for Cultural Memory”: A Walk Down Sesame Street

Elizabeth Clendinning, Florida State University

 

 

11:00 – 11:15      Break

 

 

11:15 – 12:15                      Session 2: “Hearing Memory, Experiencing Music”

                                                Moderator: Sean Johnston

 

A Proposed Four-Step Model of Cognition Incorporating Gestalt Principles and Schenker’s Ex Post Facto Hearing

William Helmcke, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

 

My Blood Runs Cold, My Memory Has Just Been Sold:

Popular Music in Advertising

Bobby Simmons, University of Southern California

 

12:15 – 1:30                         Lunch: Provided in

                                                Doty Fine Arts Building     

                                                Catered by Jimmy John’s

 

1:30 – 3:00                           Keynote Address

                                                Moderator: Kim Kattari

 

Bringing the Songs Back Home:

Repatriation as Re-animation

Dr. Aaron Fox, Columbia University

 

 

3:00 – 3:15                           Break

 

 

3:15 – 4:45                           Session 3: “(Re)Constructing the Present:

                                                Music and Media in Contemporary

                                                Latin America and West Africa

                                                Moderator: Mark Lomanno

 

(Re)constructing the Present

Through Amazonian Peruvian Pop Music

Kathryn Metz, University of Texas,

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum

 

Shifting Spaces, Imagined Realities: The (Re)Production

and (Re)Performance of Dagara Gender Ideology

Sidra Lawrence, University of Texas

 

Seeing Politics, Media, and Musical Memory

in Brazil through Rebel Years

Leo Cardoso, University of Texas  

 

CONCERT PROGRAM

8 PM, RECITAL STUDIO

 

 

Fire from Suite of the Elements                            Stephen Bachicha

 

Joanna Martin, flute; Mark Arritola, clarinet; Eric Peterson, percussion;

Zack Wilson, piano; Kevin Mendoza, violin; Julia Cory, violoncello;

Hermes Camacho, conductor

 

 

 

Electrum                                                                  Carolyn O’Brien

 

Kevin Mendoza, violin; Julia Cory, violoncello; Tim Rogers, piano;

Zack Stanton, conductor

 

 

 

Capriccio                                                                      Jason Cress

 

Amy Harris, violin

 

 

 

fireworks and the end of things                                    Brian Baxter

 

Daniel Gee, violin; Travis Jeffords, violoncello; Franklin Gross, piano

 

 

 

-- intermission --

 

 

 

 

Three Anniversaries                             Carl Christian Bettendorf

                Motto

                Anniversary

                Anniversary 2 (for Hans-Jürgen von Bose)

                Anniversary 3 (for Tristan Murail)

 

Sarunas Jankauskas, clarinet; Caleb Polashek, violin

Dave Campbell, violoncello; Katelyn Horn, piano

Catherine Sinon Bushman, conductor (Anniversary 3)

 

 

 

Piano Trio: Dust, Cracks, Shards, and Stains       Natalie Draper

 

Szee-won Lee, viola; Travis Jeffords, violoncello

Katelyn Horn, piano

 

 

 

Zhi                                                                                            Chiayu Hsu

                I.              Andante, misterioso

                II.            Allegro, parlando con leggerezza

III.               Adagio, pensieroso

 

Amy Harris, violin; Chu-Han Huang, piano

 

 

 

Piano Trio                                                                                Zackery Wilson

III.                 Allegro con brio

 

Min Kim Park, violin; Elizabeth Lee, violoncello

Zack Wilson, piano

 

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This website was last updated  02/24/2009 by Kim Kattari.