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“Composing in America”

Music in Gotham will hold a conference, "A Century of Composing in America: 1820-1920," on 17-19 November 2004. It begins on Wednesday evening, November 17, ...paper proposals requested...

Barbara Mackenzie writes: "Music in Gotham will be opening with a concert by the American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. The program will be of special interest to conference attendees. Paper presentations will be on 18-19 November in Baisley Powell Elebash Hall at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The last event will be a concert of chamber music composed in the United States, given in Elebash Hall on Friday evening.. John Graziano and Adrienne Fried Block, directors of Music in Gotham, request paper proposals of 30 minutes each. There will, however, be one session of shorter papers. Conference topics will be devoted to works written in the United States, whether by native-born or resident immigrant composers. Special emphasis will be on music composed in or for New York City. We welcome papers on all musical genres. Also welcome are short recitals with commentary in lieu of papers. Three double-spaced copies of the proposal should be submitted by 1 March 2004. Length may be 500 words or less. Indicate whether yours is a 30-minute or a shorter paper. Include your audio-visual requirements. Please send papers either by mail to Music in Gotham, the Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10016-4309; or by email to . Music in Gotham is a constituent member of the Barry S. Brook Center for Research and Documentation, Graduate Center, the City University of New York. It is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, which has named it a "We the People" project. Supplementary funding has come from the Baisley Powell Elebash Endowment.