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Sally pointed out the article in the Globe on Sunday, 9/4/06. Here's a link to it. You can also view a PDF version of it here.

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2007 SSCM Conference in South Bend, Indiana: Call for PapersThe Society for Seventeenth-Century Music will hold its Fifteenth Annual Conference Thursday through Sunday, 19-22 April 2007, at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. Proposals on all aspects of seventeenth-century music—instrumental music, vocal music, music theory, etc.--and its cultural contexts are welcome, including

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HERNANI / ERNANIFOUR CENTURIES OF ITALIAN OPERAInspired by French LiteratureInternational Conference14-18 FEBRUARY 2007CONFERENCE COMMITTEESCOTT L. BALTHAZAR - WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA DAMIEN COLAS - CNRS, IRPMF, PARIS FABRIZIO DELLA SETA - UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI PAVIA ALESSANDRO DI PROFIO - UNIVERSITÉ FRANÇOIS-RABELAIS, TOURS ANSELM GERHARD - UNIVERSITÄT BERN REINHARD STROHM -

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Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), University of AmsterdamConference date: December 2nd, 2006.Deadline for proposals: 15.7.2006.Keynote speakers:Mieke Bal (Academy Professor, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences/ University of Amsterdam)Harry berger Jr. (Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz)2006, the year of Rembrandt’s 400th birthday, was declared

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Inside Knowledge: (Un)doing Methodologies, Imagining AlternativesThe Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) invites proposals for an international workshop, INSIDE KNOWLEDGE, to be held at the University of Amsterdam on March 28-30, 2007.Confirmed keynote speakers:Derek Attridge (University of York)Leo Bersani (University of California, Berkeley) Steven Connor (Birkbeck College, London)

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Call for participation, papers and presentationsScholars for Social Responsibility (SFSR) will hold its third annual meeting at the AMS/SMT meeting in Los Angeles. Anyone from either society who is interested in issues of social responsibility is welcome to attend. We plan to offer several short papers or presentations followed by discussion. We write now to issue a call for participation on the

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Bisexuality in Music: A Call for PapersFor much of its history, bisexuality has barely been recognized as a legitimate topic for historical or theoretical discourse of any sort. Indeed, for many, bisexuality has often seemed little more than a question, at best."Does bisexuality really even exist?" Only within the last decade or so has scholarship in the humanities begun to acknowledge, theorize

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CALL FOR ARTICLESMusic, Sound, and the Moving Image will be the first international scholarly journal devoted to the study of the interaction between music and sound with the entirety of moving image media – film, television, music video, advertising, computer games, mixed-media installation, digital art, live cinema, et alia. To be published by Liverpool University Press and co-edited by Anahid

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2007 DENA EPSTEIN AWARD REQUIREMENTSThe Dena Epstein Award for Archival and Library Research in American Music was created in 1995 through a generous gift from Morton and Dena Epstein to the Music Library Association. Requests are currently being accepted for one or more grants to be awarded for the year 2007. The amount to be awarded is $2000. The decision of the Dena Epstein Award Committee and

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Call for Papers - Orientalism: Culture, Politics, and the Imagined OtherThe editors invite contributions on all aspects, literary and non-literary, of French Orientalism for a proposed publication following up on the 2005 conference sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in French at the City University of New York.Manuscripts should not exceed 7,500 words, including notes. Submissions must conform to

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I just came across this, thought it sounded interesting.CALL for PAPERSThe Society for New Music announces a Call For Papers for a special symposium on the topic of music and nature, to be held at Syracuse University, September 23 and 24, 2006. The symposium will occur in conjunction with the September 24th premiere performance of acclaimed composer Robert Morris's multi-media outdoor work in and

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Fortune and Fatality: Performing the Tragic in Early Modern France (1553-1715)The Graduate Center, City University of New York20 October 2006The Interdisciplinary Group for Seventeenth-Century French Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York invites paper proposals for its annual student conference. This year’s conference will be held on Friday 20 October 2006. Papers

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The Time's Arrow student new music ensemble at BU will be performing on April 12 at 8 p.m. in the Concert Hall (855 Commonwealth Avenue).Our program includes chamber works by BU faculty and friends: Lukas Foss, Theodore Antoniou, Richard Cornell, Martin Amlin, Samuel Headrick, Ketty Nez, Shulamit Ran, James Radford, and David Liptak.Visiting from Eastman, David Liptak will also present his works

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MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONCALL FOR PAPERSPITTSBURGH, 2007The Music Library Association 2007 Program Committee announces its call for papers and presentations for the 2007 annual conference, to be held in Pittsburgh, Penn., February 25-March 3, 2007. This will be a joint meeting with the Society for American Music.The deadline for programmatic papers and presentations: April 30, 2006.The Committee

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Aldo Abreu of our faculty will give a lecture-recital on the Telemann Fantasias for recorder on Monday, April 3 at 7 PM in room 219 as part of the Boston Baroque residency presentation series.(Email from P. Sykes to Historical Performance department, CFA.)

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Friday April 7 (all day) and Saturday April 8 (morning only)John Knowles Paine Concert HallThe Department of Music in collaboration with the Lauro De Bosis Lectureship in the History of the Italian Civilization presents an international conference on:Music, Poetry, and Patronage in Late Renaissance Italy:Luca Marenzio and the MadrigalFriday, April 78:45-12:30 "Music and Poetry." Speakers: Franco

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Ideological pressures often exert control over narrative endings, where plot tensions are resolved and an ideal world re-established. Of all seventeenth-century cultural environments, the court of Louis XIV would seem the most concerned with dictating the details of artistic media. Yet some of the most notable instances of the French tragédie lyrique (Lully’s Armide, Charpentier’s Médée) end with

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CALL FOR PAPERSScholarly investigation is indispensable to the field of opera, especially as a basis for production and performance.The National Opera Association is pleased to announce its Twenty-Second Scholarly Papers Competition, 2006, for outstanding scholarly papers on operatic subjects.Deadline for the submission of scholarly papers: June 1, 2006.Author notification: after September 1

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Call for Participants Symposium: "Staging the Feminine: The Arts of the Prima Donna, 1720-1920," 14-16 July 2006 This event will assemble a group of scholars from Great Britain, Europe, and North America whose scholarship focuses on issues concerning divas and the myriad cultures in which they circulate. The format for this symposium is distinct from the paper presentation / Q&A

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Call for Papers and PerformancesPerformance Practice: Issues and Approaches The Department of Music of Rhodes College invites proposals for papers and performances for a conference on “Performance Practice: Issues and Approaches,” to be held 4-6 March 2007. The conference will feature scholarly papers and roundtables on issues related to performance practice as well as performances and

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“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.”-Dr. Seuss (1904-1991) American writer and cartoonist for his collection of children's books

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The GSO (Graduate Student Organization for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at BU) is holding a seminar on online databases.The seminar will be held on Tuesday, April 18, at 3pm in the eClassroom of the Pickering Educational Resources Library which is located in the basement of the School of Education at 2 Sherborn Street. The seminar will be a demonstration of the Web of Science (WOS)

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Suggested Listening:P.D.Q. BachIphigenia in BrooklynS. 53162Hey, guys. I'm showing the "non-serious" side of my personality a bit by mentioning how much I LOVE this piece. You should really give it a whirl...

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Below I've copied an email regarding volunteer work as part of a gift for BU's new president. I think this is a fantastic idea (as opposed to the common call for money!), and wanted to know if anyone would like to partake in the gift with me- I am free on Saturday, the Day of Service, or we can work out another time if that does not work for you all.Let me know what you think!Subject: Boston

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“Never forget that only a dead fish swims with the stream.”-Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990) English author and journalistSenior editor of the British satirical magazine,"Punch" (1953-57)(taken from the DR-L list, 3/20/06) (And let us also never forget that dead fish smell terribly.)

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It's part of a trilogy, a musical trilogy I'm working on in D minor which is the saddest of all keys, I find. People weep instantly when they hear it, and I don't know why. --Nigel Tufnel, Spinal Tap

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MATCH, a 6th year, small, rigorous, open admission college prep public charterhigh school in Boston, is hiring:1) One year service fellowship "MATCH Corps"We're looking for 45 fellows for the MATCH Corps, a year-long full-time tutoringprogram at our school (featured in NY Times 12/21/05). It's an elite group. Most Corps members are in the top 2% on GRE exams and come from top colleges. Most

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April 22 at UMASS-Amherst

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For an interesting article discussing American art, read:New Yorker ArticleDoesn't take too long!Things like this remind me that there are other fields out there, dealing with the same sorts of issues that bother musicologists!Sally

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Some might envy the size of this musicologist's pointer or that he gets to make shadow figures during class, but I'm personally frightened of a future like this.I'll buy someone a coffee if they can identify the piece.

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"Dear colleagues, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature invites you to participate in a brief survey that will help us to refine our database's coverage and search tools, and to better understand the diverse needs of the wide range of people who use it. The survey will take only five to ten minutes to complete, and your input will result in an improved RILM for everyone. Please click on the

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There's nothing like a class with Shev to open your eyes to the reality of popular music in Western culture."The French opéra comíque is the 18th-century equivalent of‘It’s Tough Out Here For A Pimp.'"It's good to know that there will always be a place for escapist entertainment. Cheers, Professor.

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CALL for PAPERS and LECTURE RECITALSThe 2007 ATHENA Festival is pleased to announce a CALL FOR PAPERS to be presented on March 7, 8 and 9, 2007. The ATHENA Festival, held biennially at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky, is devoted to the study and performance of music written by women.One of the featured guests for the 2007 festival is Helen Walker-Hill, an acknowledged authority on the

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So the silly undergraduates have both canceled on me for tomorrow morning. I will not be giving exams in our office!I think I might give one on Tuesday morning of this week, and then Monday next week, but I'll let you know for sure when they make up their minds.Thanks!Sally

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Okay, so I'm sitting in Espresso Royale, working on an absolutely spectacular paper for Shev. Anyway, they always have interesting music on, and this morning, well...here's a quote from the guy they're playing right now: "I'm walking down an empty road,but it ain't empty anymore,'cause I'm on it." Deep.

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Just wanted to let you all know I will be making up two exams on Monday morning, so I'll need our office from 9-10:30 and 11-12:30.Sorry for the inconvenience!Sally

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Received this from a friend...This was sent on to me by one of my choral directors. Its for real! Turn your speakers up first, then go to http://84.40.3.164/ It's the real deal.Deke Sharon of CASA (ContemporaryAcappella Society)says:They actually contacted me after speaking to theBritish folks who ended up doing it, and asked for analternative plan/budget (cheaper). I told 'em that you didn't

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The third musicology lecture of the Spring Semester will take place on Tuesday, 14 March at 8 pm in the Concert Hall. Victor Coelho will be giving this talk, which is entitled: 'Arias for a Pope: Singing Petrarch in Early Baroque Rome." It deals generally with how Petrarch's poetry was adapted to both 17th-century musical idioms and to the papal culture of Urban VIII, and specifically with a new

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Just discovered this:Free coffee!Scroll down for information.:) Sally

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Check out the library's new website. Long time coming. They added a cool thing called RedLightGreen. It searches catalogues all over the world, but the best part is it will construct a bibliography entry in your favorite format!pjb

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The Boston University Musicology Students welcome you to our virtual water cooler.

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