We’ve assembled a list of all content at AMS/SMT that relates to Jewish music or Jewish studies. If you notice anything missing, please let us know!
Thursday, 9 November
2:15pm-3:45pm · Location: Plaza Ballroom E
Change and Conflict in Chant (AMS)
A Gregorian Chant, a Melodic Revelation from Mount Sinai, and the Burning of Martyrs at the Stake: The Legends and Presumed Relationship of Sanctus and Aleinu, Daniel Seth Katz (Martin Buber Institute, University of Cologne, Germany)
4:00pm – 5:30pm · Location: Governor’s Square 12
Composing Jewish Modernity (AMS)
Chair: Mackenzie Pierce
Spinoza, A Life in Three Acts: Localizing and Personalizing Jewish History and Western Thought in an American Opera, Jennifer Ronyak (University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz)
German Jewish Universality and the Passions of Graun and Bach, Samuel Teeple (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Jewish Music, Right and Left, Irit Youngerman (University of Haifa, Israel)
4:00pm – 5:30pm · Location: Plaza Ballroom D
Representing Racialized Selves and Others in Czech Music (AMS)
Chair: Kelly St. Pierre (Wichita State University)
Discussant: Michael Beckerman (New York University)
Presenters: Tina Frühauf (City University of New York), Brian Locke (Western Illinois University), Tereza Havelková (Charles University, Prague), Christopher Campo-Bowen (Virginia Tech University)
4:00pm-5:30pm · Location: Windows
19th-Century Biography (AMS)
Chorale Transformation and Triumph in Mendelssohn’s Sinfonia VI and Hensel’s Das Jahr, Claire Fontijn (Wellesley College)
8:00pm-10:00pm · Location: Plaza Ballroom D
Anti-Semitism, Music, and Music Studies: Views from the Field (AMS)
Chairs: Uri Schreter (Harvard University), Nicolette van den Bogerd (Indiana University)
Discussant: Amanda Ruppenthal Stein (Carroll University)
Presentes: Ruth HaCohen (Pinczower) (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Bonnie Gordon (University of Virginia), Rebecca Cypess (Rutgers University), Kathryn Huether (Bowdoin College)
Organized by the AMS Jewish Studies and Music Study Group
Friday, 10 November
9:00am-10:30am · Location: Governor’s Square 12
Price’s “Whiteness”, Shostakovich’s “Jewishness” and Cooper’s “Royalty”: Signifying Otherness as Resistance within Existing Collectivities (AMS)
To Know Myself: Shostakovich’s Jewish Existential Irony in Satires (Pictures of the Past), Tanya Landau (Roosevelt University)
10:45am-12:5pm · Location: Governor’s Square 12
New Approaches to Studying Recorded Jewish Music (AMS)
Chair: Randall Goldberg (California State University, Fullerton)
Gendered Voices of Home and Hopes for Tomorrow: Examining the Recorded Lullaby in Jewish Émigré Life through the Database of Recorded Jewish Music in America, Danielle R. Stein (UCLA)
Immigration and the Sound of American Jewry: How the Immigration Act of 1924 Affected the Production of Commercial Jewish Music Recordings, Jeff Janeczko (Milken Archive and UCLA)
The Frequent Sounds of Sacred Jewish Music, Mark Kligman (UCLA)
10:45am – 12:15pm · Location: Majesty Ballroom
Musical Utopias (AMS)
Politics on the Program: Rudolf Mengelberg and the 1920 Mahler Festival, Justin Gregg (Columbia University)
2:15pm-3:15pm · Location: Governor’s Square 12
Music, Labor, and Jewish Identity (AMS)
Concept, Laboratory, Playground: Ursula Burghardt as Composer-Artist in the 5-Day-Race (1968), Elaine Fitz Gibbon (Harvard University)
The “Undesirable” in Box 14: A Counter-History of Jewish Men’s Labor for the Metropolitan Opera House, 1880-1940, Samantha Madison Cooper (University of Pennsylvania)
Voices from the East and the South: Isaac Nathan’s Global-Historical Pedagogy in Regency Britain, Devon J Borowski (University of Chicago)
2:15pm-3:15pm · Location: Silver
Rethinking the West: Arabic and Hebrew Music Theory in Medieval Iberia (AMS/SMT)
Chair: Andrew Hicks (Cornell University)
Organizers: Giulia Accornero (Yale University) and Marcel Camprubi (Princeton University)
Al-Fārābī in Hebrew: Elements of an Iberian-Provençal Jewish Epistemology of Music, Alexandre Cerveux (University of Oxford)
4:00pm – 5:30pm · Location: Grand Ballroom II
Silence, Dissonance, and Dialogue: New Perspectives on French Modernism (AMS)
Les Six and Dissonant Combination: Both a Unifying Technique and a Target for Antisemitic Criticism, Dylan Principi (Princeton University)
Saturday, 11 November
4:00pm-5:30pm · Location: Governor’s Square 12
East Asia, Composition, and Transnationalism (SMT)
Retranslating Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde, Edwin Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Sunday, 12 November
9:00am-10:30am · Location: Governor’s Square 16
Music and World War II (AMS)
Singing for Their Homeland and Their Jewish People: The Musical Activities of Jewish-Ukrainian Partisans Moshe and Simcha Gildenman, James A. Grymes (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Thriving in a WWII Margaritaville: Musical Ecology, Leonard Bernstein, and Key West in 1941, Zane Larson (University of Iowa)
9:00am – 10:30am · Location: Governor’s Square 15
Signs in Film and Television (SMT)
A Corpus of Corpses: Murder and Modernism in the Crime Films of Max Steiner, Brent Yorgason, Jeff Lyon (Brigham Young University)
10:45am-12:15pm · Location: Governor’s Square 17
Contrafacts: A Template for Agency and Identity Formation (AMS)
Opera Seria Contrafacts at the Amsterdam Sephardic Synagogue and the Negotiation of Jewish Identity in the Eighteenth Century, Paul Gustav-Feller (Northwestern University)