DATE: Saturday, March 10, 2007
TIME: 9:30 am to 5:30 pm
LOCATION: Harvard University, Dudley House. Cambridge, MA

The Graduate Music Forum at Harvard University is pleased to announce a graduate student conference on:

MUSIC AND CRISIS

with Keynote Speaker: Christoph Wolff, Adams University Professor at Harvard
University

Program:

9:30 am Dudley House Common Room: Registration and Opening Remarks

10:00 am Morning Session I

-Instruments of War: The Impact of World War II on the American Music Industry
Sarah Deters Richardson, University of South Dakota
-Janacek’s Makropulos and the Case of the Silent Diva
Jennifer Sheppard, University of California, Berkeley

11:30 am Morning Session II

-Korsakov’s Complaint: The Forging of an Unlikely Musical Rebel
Leah Goldman, University of Chicago (Department of Russian History)
-Haydn’s “Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser”: The Composer as Architect of Imperial
Unity
Karen Hiles, Columbia University

2:20 pm Afternoon Session

-A Question of Home: The Search for the Armenian Musical Voice
Sylvia Alajaji, Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester
-Redesigning for Multiple Publics: Taste, Community and the Classical Music
Landscape
Byron Sartain, University of Wisconsin, Madison

4:10 pm Keynote Address by Christoph Wolff, Adams University Professor at
Harvard University:
“Grappling with Consequences of Political Troubles: Professional Experiences and
Personal Reflections”

For additional information: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/gradmus/index.php