Events of special interest to music theorists held at the CUNY Graduate Center

 During the semester, the Music Department presents a number of formal and informal events, meetings, and guest lectures that are available to students of the Music Theory program at the CUNY Graduate Center. These events include:

• Theory Group meetings: informal gatherings where theory majors discuss their recent projects or progress on their dissertation; present conference previews; and discuss other issues of concern as a community.
• Professional Development Workshop: workshops for students of all majors that discuss specific aspects that relate to scholarship and career, such as applying for grants, writing a CV, and the like.
• Guest lectures: some of these take place within specific classes (but are usually open to all Music Theory majors); other are open to the general public as well.
• Conferences: various conferences are housed at CUNY and available to all students.

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Selected events and guest lectures for Fall 2023:
• September 8, Theory Group Meeting
• September 29, Mark Answer Cartwright, lecture on Bach’s Goldberg Variations
• October 5, Rachel Lumsden, feminist music theory: guest speaker in Current Trend class
• October 19, Richard Cohn, rhythm and metter: guest speaker in Current Trend class
• October 23, SMT Previews, Lina Tabak (Colombian music) and William Rothstein (Gaetano Donizetti)
• October 27, Living New York Concert, organized by Rebecca Moranis and Joseph Vaz
• October 30, SMT Preview, Stephen Spencer (Ruth Crawford Seeger)
• November 1, SMT Previews, Vlad Praskurnin (Orlando di Lasso), Rebecca Moranis (choreography and music)
• December 6, celebration for William Rothstein and Jane Sugarman retirement
• December 11, Tania Leon, A Conversation and Concert
• December 13, celebration for David Olan retirement

Selected events and guest lectures for Spring 2023:

• January 25 Music Theory CV and cover letter bootcamp (online, 5: 30pm)
   
• February 9 Presentation by Ceclia Oinas (University of the Arts Helsinki), “Tactile Music Analysis? Corporeality, Empathy, and Bonding in Piano Four Hands Music and Lied Duos” (Room 3491, 5:30pm) 
• February 10 Finding Voices in Medieval Song, recital, with lecture by Sarah Kay (Siegel Hall, 1:30pm) 
• February 24 Presentation by Lauri Suurpää (Sibelius Academy), “An Individual Opposing the Crowd: The Capriccio of Haydn’s String Quartet, Op. 20, No. 2” (Room 3491, 1:30pm, part of “Musicology Bites” series) 
• February 27 Guest Lecture by Mina Lee on Unsuk Chin (via Zoom) 
• March 1 Theory Group meeting (online, 5:30pm) 
• March 3 Presentation by  Michele Cabrini (Hunter College): “Lully and Quinault Reading Montalvo: Amadis or Adapting a Romance Novel into an Opera” (Room 3491, 1:30pm, part of “Musicology Bites” series) 
• March 16 Panel Discussion, Ukraine’s Musical Influence (Hunter College, East Building, Room 706, 6pm) 
• March 17 Prospective Students Day (via Zoom) 
• March 20 Guest Lecture by Toru Momii  (via Zoom) 
• March 21 MTSNYS Previews 
• March 24–25  GSIM 
• March 31 Guest colloquium: Richard Kramer “The anxiety of return: On a telling moment in the first movement of Beethoven, op 59, no1” (Room 3491, 1:30pm, part of “Musicology Bites” series) 
• April 1–2 MTSNYS meeting (at NYU) 
• April 12–13 Global Digital Music Studies Conference 
• April 17 Guest lecture by Chelsea Burns on “Latin American Music and Indigenity” (via Zoom) 
• April 26 Presentation by Kara Yoo Leaman, “Understanding Choreomusical Analysis: Balanchine Ballets and Beyond” (Room 3491, 5:30pm) 
• April 28 Gianmario Borio (University of Pavia), “Sonic Invention and the ‘Dialectics of Liberation’: Free Improvisation in Europe around 1968” (Room 3491, 1:30pm, , part of “Musicology Bites” series) 
• May 3, Theory Group meeting (online, 5:30pm) 
• June 1–2 and 8–9 Analytic Approaches to World Music Conference  (online) 

Here is a list of some of these events that took place during the Fall 2022 semester that were sponsored by the CUNY Graduate Center, CUNY, or departments/classes within the Music Department: 

• September 2: Convocation meeting (online) 
• September 8: Guest faculty lecture, Disability Studies in Music class, Blake Howe (LSU, online) 
• September 12: Guest lecture, Ralf von Appen (U. of Music and Performing Arts Vienna), “Measuring the Myth: Tempo and (Micro)Timing in the Music of the Rolling Stones.” (in person, Hunter College Lang Auditorium) 
• September 15: Theory Group meeting (online) 

• September 16: Faculty talk, Musicology Bites: Emily Wilbourne: “Archival Material: Barbara Strozzi’s Mother and the Subject of Music History” (in person) 
• September 30: AMS Preview, Musicology Bites: Sam Teeple on German Jews and the Berlin Singakademie (in person)  
• September 30: Global Xenakis Centenary Meeting, Barry Brook Center (hybrid) 

• October 6: Guest faculty lecture, Disability Studies in Music class, Michael Bakan (FSU, online) 

• October 21, 1:30pm AMS Preview Musicology Bites, Ted Gordon (Baruch College) on Sun Ra (in person lecture).  
• October 21, 4pm: Ethnomusicology Colloquium, “Creative uses of digital audio technologies in Bamako recording studios (Mali),” by Profs. Emmanuelle Olivier (CNRS-EHESS, France), and Amandine Pras (University of York, UK) (hybrid) 
• October 28, 1:30pm: Musicology Bites, AMS conference preview, by Robert Wrigley (hybrid) 
• October 28, 2:30pm: SMT Preview with Alice Xue (in person) 

• November 2: SMT Previews by Stephen Spenser and Itzá Garcia (online) 
• November 3: SMT Previews by Stephen Gomez-Peck and Joseph Straus (online) 
• November 4: AMS Preview, Musicology Bites: Kris Königin Eckelhoff, “Archiving Trans, Trans in the Archive’” 
• November 28: Graduate Center sponsored public event:  Gavin Butt and Richard T. Rodríguez discuss British Post-Punk (online) 
• November 29: Graduate Center sponsored public event:  Jenifer Homans and Pamela Newkirk discuss George Balanchine (hybrid) 

• December 1, 5:30pm: Ensemble for the Romantic Center, webinar on Beethoven, with Harvey Sachs and James Melo 
• December 1, 5:30pm: Music Theory meeting (online) 
• December 2, 1:30pm: Guest speaker, Musicology Bites: Adriano Giardino (Université de Fribourg): “’Zu einfach für Kinder, zu schwierig für Künstler’ (online) 
• December 2, 7pm Graduate Center sponsored public event:  Aidan Levy discusses his book on Sonny Rollins, in conversation with Gary Giddens (online) 

• December 9: Faculty talk, Musicology Bites: Karen Henson (Room 3491) 
• December 13: Graduate Center sponsored public event:  Adam Gopnick and D.T. Max discuss Stephen Sondheim (hybrid) 

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