AMSGNY Announcements

The spring 2024 meeting of the Greater New York Chapter of the American Musicological Society will be online at Saturday, May 18th.  If you would like to present on any musical topic, please send a 250 word proposal by Sunday, April 14th.  

 The Greater New York Chapter of the American Musicological Society is holding an online roundtable presentation featuring composer Aaron Zigman.  Mr. Zigman’s oratorio Émigré is premiering at the New York Philharmonic on February 29^th, and he has agreed to tell us about the process of writing it, and also about being a composer in the 21^st century.   This event will take place on Friday, February 16^th at 7 PM EST.

The roundtable will take place on Zoom.  The link is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4861123413?pwd=c0podGRzbVVtZnUwd2pBMGpFVm41UT09

Mr. Zigman is an established composer in Hollywood, with many movie credits.  For details, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Zigman  Émigré is a composition for the concert hall, and was jointly commissioned by the New York Philharmonic and the Shanghai Symphony.  It concerns European Jews who fled to China during World War II.   For details, see https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/26/arts/music/emigre-oratorio-shanghai-jews-.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SU0.GlH2.gLW63f8dLxQj&bgrp=c&smid=url-share

For details about the upcoming performances of the work, go to https://nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2324/zigman-emigre

This event is open to all, and will be of interest to musicologists, musicians, composers, those interested in Sino/European relations, Holocaust studies, and the public in general.  Please share this invitation with others.

 The Greater New York Chapter of the American Musicological Society invites you to participate in a roundtable discussion on Artificial Intelligence and Music(ology).  Given the great deal of press that AI has been receiving lately, this is a timely topic to discuss.  

The Winter Meeting for 2024 will take place on Saturday, February 3rd at Columbia University.  We encourage the submission of proposals on all areas of music and its interdisciplinary interpretations and connections.  Please send 250 word abstracts to both jdailey "at" gts.edu and jonathan.waxman "at" gmail.com by December 3rd.  The room at Columbia contains a grand piano, so live musical performances/examples are possible.