Music in Gotham and The New York Philharmonic conference on The 19th -century American Orchestra: Program Wednesday, 16 January Pre-conference tours. 12:30 p.m., Carnegie Hall Museum and Archives, Gino Francesconi, Archivist 2:00 p.m., Carnegie Hall Museum and Archives, Gino Francesconi, Archivist 4:30 p.m., New York Philharmonic Archives, Barbara Haws, Archivist and Historian Thursday, 17 January 9:30 a.m., Registration 10:00 a.m., Welcome 10:15 a.m., Keynote address, Deane Root 11:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m., Session 1 Chair: Denise Von Glahn, Florida State University Patrick Warfield, “The Georgetown Amateur Orchestra of Washington, D.C., 1880-1900” Karen Ahlquist, “Cincinnati’s Festival Orchestras, 1873-82: Redefining Local Achievement on National Terms.” 2:00-3:20 p.m., Session 2 Chair: George Boziwick, Music Division, New York Public Library James Deaville, “The Philharmonic Society, Hans Balatka and W. S. B. Mathews: Orchestra, Conductor, and Critic in Pre-fire Chicago” Adrienne Fried Block, “Thinking about Serious Music in New York City, 1840-1880” Jeffrey Noonan, “Image and Likeness-The American Mandolin Orchestra” 3:30-4:50 p.m., Session 3 Chair: Judith Tick, Northeastern University William Weber, “Programming in Boston’s Earliest Orchestral Series, 1840-1855” Mary Wallace Davidson, “John Sullivan Dwight and the Harvard Musical Association Orchestra: A Help or a Hindrance?” 7:30 p.m., New York Philharmonic Concert, and Post-Concert Reception, Avery Fisher Hall. Friday, 18 January 9:30-10:50 a.m., Session 4 Chair: Christopher Gibbs, Bard College Mark Clague, “Building the American Orchestra: The Nineteenth-century Roots of Twenty-First Century Musical Institutions” John Spitzer, “American Musicians’ Unions in the Nineteenth Century” 11:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m., Session 5 Chair: Ruth Henderson, City College of New York, CUNY, Emerita Nancy Newman, “Gender and the Germanians: ‘Art-Loving Ladies’ in Nineteenth-Century Concert life” Anna-Lisa P. Santella, “Modeling Music: Early Structures of Women’s Orchestras” 2:00-3:20 p.m., Session 6 Chair: Richard Kramer, The Graduate Center, CUNY Barbara Haws, “U.C. Hill, The First American Musician Abroad (1835-36): What He Learned that Led to the Founding of the New York Philharmonic” Wolfram Boder, “Musical Training by Louis Spohr and Its Influence on American Orchestral Culture” 3:30-5:30 p.m., Session 7 Chair: Steven Baur, Dalhousie University Katherine Preston, “A Concentration of Talent on Our Musical Horizon”: The 1853-54 American Tour by Jullien’s Extraordinary Orchestra Ora Frishberg Saloman, “Leopold Damrosch’s Orchestra, 1877-1878: Background, Instrumentation, Reception” Brenda Nelson-Strauss, “Sowing the Seeds: Theodore Thomas’s Contribution to American Music” Saturday, 19 January 9:00-9:30 a.m., Coffee and pastries provided by AMS-GNY Chapter. 9:30-10:50 a.m., Session 8 Chair: Jeffrey Taylor, Brooklyn College, CUNY Bethany S. Goldberg, “The Orchestral Potential of Bernard Ullman’s Academy of Music” John Graziano, “The Invisible Entertainers: Theater Orchestras in New York City, 1850-1900” 11:00 a.m.-12:20 p.m., Session 9 Chair: Larry Hamberlin, Middlebury College Jonas Westover, “From Faust to Paganini in China: The German Saloon Orchestra in New York City During the 1860s” John Koegel, “The Sunday ‘Sacred Concert’ and Orchestral Music in Later Nineteenth-Century New York City” 12:30-1:30 p.m., Lunch provided by Music in Gotham and the AMS-GNY Chapter. 1:30-3:00 p.m., Conference Wrap-up and Panel Session: Participants TBA