Year-Long
Spring 2020
31 March: AMS Lecture Series at the Library of Congress: Marta Robertson (Gettysburg College), “The Uncommon 'Gift to be Simple’: Japanese American Influence in Appalachian Spring.” 7 pm, Montpelier Room, Madison Building.
18 April: Spring Metting of the Capital Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Towson University. Click here the program and information on local arrangements.
21 April: Fourth Annual Catholic University of America Research Day. Click here for the Research Day program and other information.
16 May: University Commencement Exercises.
Fall 2019
9 September: Annual Beginning-of-the-School-Year Musicology Reception. 11 am, Latin American Music Center (Ward Hall, room 138).
21 September: Fall Meeting of the Capital Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Library of Congress, at which Ph.D. student Anna Brashears is giving a paper. Click here for information on the program and local arrangements.
31 October–3 November: Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Boston.
12 November: AMS Lecture Series at the Library of Congress: John Koegel (California State University, Fullerton), “Recovering the History of the U.S. Immigrant Musical Theater at the Library of Congress” 7 pm, Montpelier Room, Madison Building.
Spring 2019
6 April: Spring Metting of the Capital Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Peabody Conservatory. Click here the program and information on local arrangements.
9 April: Fourth Annual Catholic University of America Research Day, featuring oral presentations by Dr. Andrew H. Weaver, Ph.D. students Anna Brashears and Gretchen Erlichman, and B.A. student Benjamin Shields (in addition to presentations by students and faculty from other departments of the Rome School). Click here for the Research Day program and other information.
16 April: AMS Lecture Series at the Library of Congress: Katherine K. Preston (College of William and Mary), "America’s Forgotten Love Affair with Opera." 7 pm, Montpelier Room, Madison Building.
18 May: University Commencement Exercises.
Fall 2018
5 September: Annual Beginning-of-the-School-Year Musicology Reception. 11 am, Latin American Music Center (Ward Hall, room 138).
5–6 October: Fall Meeting of the Capital Chapter of the American Musicological Society (joint with the Allegheny and Mid-Atlantic Chapter), University of Delaware, at which Dr. Andrew H. Weaver is giving a paper. Click here for information on the program and local arrangements.
1–4 November: Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, San Antonio, Texas, at which alumna Lillian Blotkamp (B.M. 2011) is giving a paper and alumna Karen Uslin (Ph.D. 2015) is participating in an evening panel. We will meet at the conference registration desk for a CUA lunch at 12:30 on Saturday.
20 November: AMS Lecture Series at the Library of Congress: Hye-jung Park (Ohio State University), “From World War to Cold War: Music in America’s Radio Propaganda in Korea.” 7 pm, Montpelier Room, Madison Building.
Spring 2018
14 April: Spring Metting of the Capital Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Howard University. Click here for the program and information on local arrangements.
19 April: Third Annual Catholic University of America Research Day, at which Ph.D. students Matthew Gabay and Natalie Barsoum are giving presentations and undergraduate music history major Flannery Jamison is giving a poster presentation. Click here for the Research Day program and other information.
12 May: University Commencement Exercises.
15 May: AMS Lecture Series at the Library of Congress: Daniel M. Callahan (Boston College), "Bernstein Conducting Himself." 7 pm, Montpelier Room, Madison Building.
Fall 2017
6 September: Annual Beginning-of-the-School-Year Musicology Reception. 11 am, Latin American Music Center (Ward Hall, room 138).
8 September: Inaugural performance of the new concert series Concerts Spirituels, a monthly series of lunchtime sacred music concerts, taking place at 1:00 in Caldwell Auditorium. This first concert features sopranos Rachel Barham (CUA alumna and Mullen Library staff) and Missy Curl (current M.A. student in musicology) performing chant and seventeenth-century motets for the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The other concerts this semester take place on October 20, November 10, and December 1. Click here for more information.
20 September: The Sistine Chapel Choir gives a free performance at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception at 6 pm, with a workshop for CUA students that day at 10 am.
14 October: Fall Meeting of the Capital Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Shenandoah University. Click here for information on the program and local arrangements.
9-12 November: Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Rochester, at which CUA alumni Karen Ulsin (Ph.D. 2015), Christopher Bowen (M.M. 2011), and Rachel McNellis (B.M. 2011, M.A. 2014) are giving presentations. We will meet up at the conference registration desk for a CUA breakfast at 8 am on Saturday.
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