Frederick Loewe Symposium in American Music 2012

William Bolcom, Artist in Residence
University of Redlands School of Music
March 5-10, 2012

Symposium Schedule

Saturday, March 10
'Music and the American Word'

Keynote: Prof. Larry Starr (University of Washington), "Analysis and Its Discontents"

Papers presented:

Dr. Michael Callahan (Michigan State University), "Sentential Phrase Structure and Sentential Lyrics in the Great American Songbook"

Andrew Gades (Florida State University), "A Multi-Domain Approach to Musical Narrative in Bolcom's Songs of Innocence and of Experience"

Jason Jedlicka (Indiana University), "A Poetic Oasis: Methods of Text Setting in Steve Reich's The Desert Music"

Elizabeth Newton (Indiana University), "Musico-Poetic Structure in Early Songs of Elliott Smith"

Abigail Shupe (University of Western Ontario), "The River of Life and the Place of Death"