Fall Meeting: October 18-19 2024 at the Library of Congress
We are delighted to announce a joint meeting of the MLA Atlantic Chapter and the AMS Capital Chapter October 18-19, 2024 at the Library of Congress! In addition to engaging presentations by AtMLA and AMS-CC members, there will be a display of Music Division treasures, an option to tour the beautiful and historic Jefferson Building, and a (free!) concert that kicks off the Library’s 100th anniversary concert series—Eddie Palmieri leading a jazz sextet.
We warmly invite you to attend the meeting. Please register no later than Monday, September 9, using this form.
See Fall 2024 Meeting Accommodations for information on staying in DC and getting around.
The program is listed below; please find abstracts at Fall 2024 Meeting Abstracts.
Please contact Lisa at lshiota@umd.edu if you have any questions.
Timeslot | Presentation | Presenters | Location |
Friday, October 18 | |||
10:00am – 11:00am | Tour of Jefferson Building (optional, registration required) | LC docents | Jefferson Building |
11:30am – 1:00pm | Registration | Program Committee members | outside Dining Room A, Madison Building |
Show and Tell (concurrent) | Music Division Staff | West Dining Room | |
1:00pm – 1:15pm | Welcome, opening remarks | Janet, LC Music Division Chief Susan Vita, | Dining Room A |
1:15pm – 2:00pm | Concerts from the Library of Congress at 100: A Study in Sustainable Philanthropy and Engagement | Asst. Chief Nick Brown, Music Division Staff | |
2:00pm – 2:15pm | Break | ||
Session 1 | |||
2:15pm – 2:45pm | A Novel Approach to Student-Led Research through Collaboration between Musicologists and University Archives | Elizabeth Massey, Ben Jackson | |
2:45pm – 3:15pm | Breadcrumb Trails Through Early American Musical Theater: Archival Resources and Children’s Theater in Victor Herbert’s Babes in Toyland (1903) | Virginia Christy Lamothe | |
3:15pm – 3:45pm | Schism or Continuation? Gendered Narratives in the Construction of Minimalism in Print, 1973–1999 | Elizabeth Busch | |
3:45pm – 4:00pm | Break | ||
4:00pm – 5:00pm | Boulanger Initiative presentation | Boulanger Initiative | |
5:00pm – 6:30pm | Dinner (headcount needed) | TBD | |
8:00pm | Concert – Eddie Palmieri jazz (free, tickets required) | Coolidge Auditorium, Jefferson Building | |
Saturday, October 19 | |||
8:30am – 9:00am | Breakfast (optional – sponsored by AMS) | Dining Room A, Madison Building | |
Session 2 | |||
9:00am – 9:30am | OpenRefine for Music Librarians and Researchers | Emily Baumgart | |
9:30am – 10:00am | Subscription Lists, Concert Notices, and Musical Clues: Reconstructing Elizabeth Turner’s Mid-Eighteenth-Century Musical Network | Paula Maust | |
10:00am – 10:30am | “Deep River” and the Development of the Solo Concert Spiritual | Randye Jones | |
10:30am – 10:40am | Break | ||
Session 3 | |||
10:40am – 11:10am | Longing for Freedom: Gendered Madness in Kate Soper’s Voices from the Killing Jar | Jacob LaBarge | |
11:10am – 11:40am | Crawl, Don’t Run: How Web Archives Support Contemporary Music Research | Melissa Wertheimer | |
11:40am – 1:10pm | Business Meetings (lunch provided by AtMLA) | Dining Room A and West Dining Room | |
Session 4 | |||
1:10pm – 1:40pm | Elevating diverse voices: a workshop on improving discovery for music from historically excluded composers | Kathleen DeLaurenti and Kirk-Evan Billet | |
1:40pm – 2:10pm | Poochie’s Missing Chronicle: The Lost History of Richmond Jazz | Scott Gray Douglass | |
2:10pm – 2:20pm | Break | ||
Session 5 | |||
2:20pm – 2:50pm | Why Can’t I Search by Instrumentation?: Results from a Survey of Performers | Christina Taylor Gibson, Adam Zukowski, Michael Diener | |
2:50pm – 3:20pm | “More Possibility for Ecstasy”: Forging a Musical Voice in John Adams’s 1976-77 Journal | William Robin | |
3:20pm – 3:50pm | Closing remarks/adjournment |