Session Details

Tuesday, 29 December

402. Old Texts, Modern Music

10:15–11:30 a.m., Congress B, Loews

Program arranged by the Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations

Presiding: Ronnie Susan Apter, Central Michigan Univ.

1. “Martinů’s Musical Response to The Epic of Gilgamesh,” Judith Mabary, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia

2. “The Modern Minnesinger: Weill’s Frauentanz,” Jeff Dailey, Five Towns Coll.

3. “The Timeliness of Durufle’s Requiem,” Leslie Sprout, Drew Univ.

4. “‘To Mine Herte Is Mad a Wounde’: Britten and the Signs of Death,” Blake Howe, Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York

5. “De Do Do Dowland: Sting’s Revoicing of Early English Lyric,” Audrey L. Becker, Marygrove Coll.

For abstracts, write to cfanarts@aol.com.

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