Spring Symposium 2019
The University of Kansas
Saturday, April 13
Registration, Murphy Hall Room 238
12:00-1:00pm
Welcome, Murphy Hall Room 238
1:00pm-1:10pm
Paper Presentations, Murphy Hall Room 238
Session 1
1:10-2:30pm
Chair: Mary Beth Sheehy
TJ Laws-Niccola: Musical Owarai: Pipe Organ as an Instrument of Comedy in Japanese Animation
Christie Dobson: Moving Pictures: The Hope Project. A Theatre, Photography, and Music Camp for Teens
Tanya Honerman: Imagery and Metaphor in Avenged Sevenfold’s “The Stage”
Frank Nawrot: A Harmonic, Melodic, and Contrapuntal Analysis of Tool’s “Ænima”
Break
2:30-2:45pm
Session 2
2:45-3:45pm
Chair: Owen Hansen
Andrew Patty: Music of the Mattachine: Music in the Identity Development for Pre-Stonewall Gay College Students
Allison Lewis: The American Sound: The Educational Tradition of African American Music Making and the Burden of Genre
Ben Justis: Letting Things Go, Making Things Up
Keynote, Murphy Hall Room 238
4:00-5:00pm
Dr. Bangere Purnaprajna: Geometry and Music
Dinner, Lawrence Beer Co.
5:30-7:00pm
Concert, Robert Baustian Theatre, Murphy Hall 1st Floor
8:00-9:00pm
"Shatter" by Cara Haxo
Performed by Stacia Fortune, clarinet
"The Moon was but a Chin of Gold" by Brandon Smith
Performed by Michaela Mack, soprano; Brett Keating, euphonium; Bonnie McLarty, piano
"Duet for Trombone and Piano (mvt. 1)" by Julia Barry
Performed by Nathan Brown, trombone; Rachael Rule, piano
"Rec(over)y" by Aaron Mencher
Performed by Stacia Fortune
"Hymn to the Faeries" by Del'Shawn Taylor
Performed by Bonnie McLarty, piano; Neal Long, tenor
"Gusts of Zephyr" by James Devor
Performed by Stacia Fortune, clarinet; Brett Keating, euphonium; Ben Justis, percussion
"When the Rain Comes" by Bonnie McLarty
Performed by Neal Long, piano; Michaela Mack, mezzo-soprano
"Trio" by Frank Nawrot
Performed by Nathan Brown, trombone; Rachael Rule, piano; Frank Nawrot, guitar