Sonneck Society for American Music
Bulletin, Volume XXV, no. 3 (Fall 1999)
Conferences
18-21 November 1999:: Society for Ethnomusicology. University of Texas, Austin, Texas. Local
Arrangements contact: Stephen Slawek; Local Arrangements Chair, School of Music, University of Texas
at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712; (512) 471-0671, slawek@mail.utexas.edu.
Program contact: Tom Turino, School of Music, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1114 W. Nevada St.,
Urbana, Illinois (217) 244-2681, t-turino@uiuc.edu.
5 December 1999: Conference on the Music of Amy Beach. Mannes College of Music. The
conference will coordinate efforts of musicologists, music theorists, and performers in exploring
specific works by Beach. Each session will consist of papers devoted to analytic, stylistic, and
contextual explorations of a single composition of Beach's, along with a performance of the composition
discussed. Those interested should submit a preliminary proposal by 15 March 1998. For further information,
please contact Adrienne Block and Poundie Burstein at AMYBEACH@aol.com.
7-9 April 2000: The American Bach Society will hold its biennial meeting at the Smithsonian
Institution and Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The theme for the meeting will be "Bach in
America" and include lectures and recitals, exhibits of Bach manuscripts (Library of Congress) and
early instruments (Smithsonian Institution), and a performance of Bach's B-minor Mass.
19-23 July 2000: Dancing in the Millennium. Washington Marriot Hotel, Washington, D.C. The program
committee for Dancing in the Millennium welcomes submissions on topics and in formats reflecting the
broad interests of those engaged in dance, dance studies, and other dance-related activities. Submission
deadline: 15 September 1999. For more information or to submit, contact Carol G. Marsh, Dancing in the
Millennium, School of Music, UNCG, POB 26167, Greensboro, NC, 17402-6167, c_marsh@uncg.edu,
336/334-5789.
1-5 November 2000: Toronto 2000: Musical Intersections will the the musical scholarly meeting not-to-be-forgotten
(at least!): a joint meeting of fifteen societies devoted to the study of music, held in early November,
2000. The Program Committee is banging its drum: we solicit proposals for joint sessions with other
societies (use your imagination!), for interdisciplinary sessions (with non-music scholars, even!),
innovative and novel ways of presenting information (now's your chance!), concert suggestions and proposals,
and just-plain-regular-paper proposals. Submissions must be postmarked by 8 January 2000. For details,
consult the call for proposals in the Summer 1999 Bulletin or contact
Katherine Preston kkpres@wm.edu. All inquiries, questions, requests,
and ideas (brilliant as well as hare-brained) welcomed!
19-22 April 2000: American Culture Association and Popular Culture Association. New Orleans,
Louisiana. For information contact Gary Burns, Department of Communication, Northern Illinois
University, DeKalb IL 60115, 815.753.7108, gburns@niu.edu.
Updated 12/15/99