A Century of Composing in America: 1820-1920 November 17-19, 2004 Wednesday, November 17 2:00 Welcome, President Horowitz, Provost Kelly Session 1 – 2:15-3:10 Chair: Raoul Camus Introductory Remarks – Adrienne Fried Block “Waltzing in Manhattan: Claudio S. Grafulla, Composer, Arranger, and Band Director” – Rena C. Kosersky Session 2 – 3:20-4:30 Chair: Judith Tick “Arthur Bird’s Overture in A Minor for Military Band” – Robert H. Dunham “William Vincent Wallace as American Composer” – Wayne V. Shirley Session 3 – 7:00 Concert of piano and vocal music, including works by Buck, Dresel, Goldbeck, Beach, Salter, Bristow, and J. R. Thomas Vanessa Cuhna, Julia Grella, Paul Houghtaling, Stephanie Jensen-Moulton, and Jin-Ok Lee. Thursday, November 18 Session 4 – 9:30-10:40 Chair: Jeff Taylor “Composing in the Theater: The Work of a Late Nineteenth-Century New York Music Director” – Michael I. Pisani “From “Dixie” to “Striking Ile”: the Walk-Arounds of Dan Emmett and Bryants’ Minstrels, 1858-1868″ – Jill Van Nostrand Session 5 – 10:50-12:00 Chair: “Composing Wild Indians in the American West, ca. 1912: operas by Mary Carr Moore and William F. Hanson” – Catherine Parsons Smith “Verismo all’Americana: George Whitefield Chadwick’s The Padrone” – Marianne Betz Session 6 – 1:00-2:45 Chair: Ora Frishberg Saloman “Aus der neuen Welt: Otto Dresel’s New York Lieder” – David Francis Urrows “Angelic Airs and Soothing Songs: Dudley Buck and the Victorian Art Song” – N. Lee Orr “Leopold Damrosch’s Symphony in A major” – Kati Agocs Session 7 – 2:55-4:05 Chair: H. Wiley Hitchcock “Composing Music for Country Tastes, 1820-1920” – Stephen Blum “Joseph Lincoln Hall’s Sacred Songs” – Patricia Woodard Friday, November 19 Session 8 – 9:30-10:40 Chair: Ellie Hisama “Latin Tinge or Mosaic? Mexican and Cuban Composers and Songwriters in New York, ca. 1880-1920” – John Koegel “Not in Kansas Anymore: The Wizard of Oz on Broadway, 1903” – Edward A. Berlin Session 9 – 10:50-12:00 Chair: Deane Root “John Rogers Thomas and the New York Scene” – John Graziano “Composing in Black and White: The Songs of Sam Lucas” – Sandra Graham Session 10 – 1:00-2:45 Chair: Michael Broyles “‘To Surround a Composer with Glory’: Works by Conductors of the Germania Musical Society” – Nancy Newman “Music in Mid Nineteenth-Century New York: Louis Jullien, American Orchestral Music, and George Bristow’s Jullien Symphony” – Katherine K. Preston “A Christmas Eve to Remember: William Henry Fry’s Santa Claus Symphony” – Laura Moore Pruett Session 11 – 2:55-4:40 Chair: Karen Ahlquist “Refracting History: Ives and Emerson and the German Romantic Tradition in American Music” – Christopher Bruhn “Americanism Gone Awry? Henry F. Gilbert’s The Dance in Place Congo at the Metropolitan Opera” – Carolyn Guzski “Hanover Square “Accordion” to Charles Ives” – Stuart Feder Session 12 – 7:00 Concert of music by Hommann and Bird. Graduate Center String Quintet and Artis Wodehouse