The UGA Music Research Symposium

The Music Research Symposium, happening Thursday, March 7th at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music, brings together undergraduate and graduate students from a diverse range of disciplines to present new research on a broad range of musical topics.  We are very excited to welcome Dr. Alexander Stefaniak of Washington University who will be giving a keynote address on “The Creative Agency of the Werktreu Pianist: Clara Schumann’s Compositional and Performing Voice.”

The Schedule:

(All events will take place in Edge Hall.)

Panel 1, 9:30-10:45 Perceiving Race

Chris Pfeifer, “Porgy to Porgy and Bess: Eight Years and Different Americas”

Mary Helen Hoque, “‘A Good Band is Much Needed Here’: Claiming Citizenship in the Reconstruction South”

Cameron Steuart, “Dey Tell all You Chillun de Debble’s a Villun: Addiction and Race in Porgy and Bess”

Panel 2, 11:00-12:15, Music and Multimedia

Stephen Turner, “Wild Signals: The Leitmotif in Close Encounters of the Third Kind”

Samantha Jones, “The Use of Pre-Existing Music in Catherine”

Catherine Carter, “Vancouver’s Underground Electronic Music Scene: Defining the ‘Vancouver Sound’”

Panel 3, 2:00-3:15, Poetry and Narrative

Sarah Mendes, “Robert Schumann’s Drei Fantasiestucke (Zart und mit Ausdruck): A Tragic Fantasy”

Alison Gilbert, “Double Translation in Poetic Readings of Vaughan Williams’ ‘Whither Must I Wander’”

Alexandre Tchaykov, “‘Invisible, as Music’: The Performance of Lyric in Whitman and Dickinson”

Panel 4, 3:30-4:45, Gender and Opera

Josh Bedford, “Affective Dissonance: Laughing in and at Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District”

Jaime Webb, “The Revitalization of L’incoronazione di Poppea: Asking Opera’s Queer Question”

CJ Komp, “Uncanny Timing: Historical Topoi, Narrative Flaw, and Queer Stages in Recent Opera”

Keynote Address, 5:00-6:00

Alexander Stefaniak, “The Creative Agency of the Werktreu Pianist: Clara Schumann’s Compositional and Performing Voice”