MGMC 2023 Conference: Day 1

New Music Ensemble

March 31, 2023 | 8:30AM
Fulton Recital Hall, Goodspeed Hall, 4th floor

8:30 AM-9:00 AM - Breakfast and Registration

9:00 AM-10:30 AM - Panel 1: Beyond the Concert Hall

  • “Intimacy as a Layer of Musical Meaning: AURORA’s Virtual Concert in the Sky: Children of Light” – Alex Sallade, Ohio State University
  • “Music’s Otherness in Ari Aster’s Horror FIlm Midsommar” – Miguel Quintero, The University of Iowa
  • “Centering Music Educator-Ethnomusicologists and Decolonizing the Classroom through Cross-Discipline Collaboration” – Rachel Schuck, University of North Texas

10:45 AM-12:15 PM - Panel 2: Sound and Sociality

  • “Listening to Listening: Silence in the Music of Rebecca Saunders” – Justin Weiss, University of Chicago
  • “The Power of Meaning Belongs to the People: An Analysis of Ralph Vaughan Williams Symphony no.6” – Brian Sanders, University of North Texas
  • “Musique Spectrale and the Quilting Points of Tristan Murail’s Désintégrations” – Calum Jensen, McGill University

12:15 PM-2:00 PM - Lunch Break

2:00 PM-3:30 PM - Panel 3: Music, Language, and Semiotics

  • “Hypermetric Declamatory Schemata in Mozart’s Queen of the Night Aria” – Daniel Martin, Michigan State University
  • “Meter and Stress Between Linguistics and Music Theory” – Jacob Reed, University of Chicago
  • “From Explicit to Implicit: A Semiotic Interpretation to the Sonata Formal Prototype in the First Two Movements of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony” – Zhuo Zhao, Rutgers University

2:15 PM-7:30 PM - Dinner Break

7:30 PM-9:00 PM - New Music Concert

  • Morrisby’s Gum – Victor Rangel (UIUC)
  • Turbulent Mind – Wenbin Lyu (CCM)
  • Gaudy – Willyn Whiting (UNT)
  • Miniatures from Phoenicia – Sami Seif (CUNY)
  • Duo – Geli Li (UT Austin)

9:00 PM-10:00 PM - Reception