I Theorize, therefore I Perform

The City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center's Music Ph.D.-D.M.A. programs are holding their tenth annual symposium for graduate students in music, though it is free and open to the public. The theme of this year's symposium is "Theorizing Performance/Performing Scholarship," which gives a great opportunity to hear research that directly affects performance. I have already heard one of the papers, by Zach Wallmark, at the Dutch-Flemish conference. It is a very interesting look at jazz pianist Andrew Hill. The conference is on April 21, at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY
between 34th & 35th Streets. Here is the program:

10 – 10:30 Breakfast and Registration (Music Student Lounge)
10:30 – 11 Between Text and Performance: Ornamentation in Rossini's Semiramide
Cindy Kim, Eastman School of Music
11 – 11:30 Phonetic Play in Louis Armstrong's Tin Pan Alley
Jonathan Greenberg, University of California – Los Angeles
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee Break (Music Student Lounge)
11:45 – 12:15 Conceptual Sound Forms: The Event, Action Music, and Performance-Sculpture, 1958-1975
Gascia Ouzounian, University of California – San Diego
12:15 – 1 Bible Thumpin' V (performance)
Eric Roth, CUNY Graduate Center
1 – 2:30 Lunch (Music Student Lounge)
2:30 – 3 Alternative Temporal Approaches to Jazz Improvisation in the Music of Andrew Hill
Zachary Wallmark, University of Oregon
3 – 3:30 John Kirkpatrick, the Concord Sonata, and the Strange Loop of Editing and Performing
Drew Massey, Harvard University
3:30 – 3:45 Coffee break (Music Student Lounge)
3:45 – 4:15 Representing the Little Slave: Virginia Andreini as Lo Schiavetto
mle wilbourne, New York University
4:15 – 4:45 Echoes, Timbres, and Synaesthesia:The Luminous Noise of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Jenny Olivia Johnson, New York University
4:45 – 5 Coffee break (Music Student Lounge)
5 – 6 Keynote Speaker: Elisabeth Le Guin, Theme or Corporeme? The Case of the Boccherini Adagio, G. 10, and Its Relatives