Graduate Center GSIM Conference, Day 2

10:00-10:30: Breakfast

10:30-1:00: Workshop: “New Ontologies of Music,” led by Prof. Benjamin Piekut (Cornell University)

1:00-2:00: Lunch (free for conference attendees)

2:00-4:00: Paper session: “Analysis”
Session Chair: Prof. Benjamin Piekut (Cornell University)

• Joshua Harris (University of North Texas), “The Body in Helmut Lachenmann’s “Filter – Schaukel” from Ein Kinderspiel: A Phenomenological Analysis”

• Serena Wang (CUNY Graduate Center), “The Aesthetics of Silence in Chou Wen-Chung’s Windswept Peaks and String Quartet No. 1”

• Emma McConnell (Eastman), “Redefining Narrative: a path through Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments”

• Dan Ruccia (Duke), “The Correct ‘Yeah’: US Maple’s Deconstruction of the Voice”

4:00-4:15: Break

4:15-5:45: Paper session: “Opera”
Session Chair: Prof. Barbara Hanning (CUNY Graduate Center)

• Hee Seng Kye (University of Hong Kong), “Mozart the Philosopher: Aside, Silence, and Time in La clemenza di Tito”

• Lee Chambers (Texas Tech), “Orphic Voices and Intercultural Signification: Operatic Works, Recontextualized Performance, and the Metaphysics of Presence”

• Bradley Fugate (Boston University), “No Exit, An Existential Opera”