Hilton Riverside, New Orleans
9–10 November 2022
Keynote speaker: Natasha Loges,
Hochschule für Musik Freiburg
Wednesday, 9 November
8:30–10:00 Contexts
Chair: Nicole Grimes, University of California, Irvine
- Reuben Phillips, University of Oxford
The Afterlives of Brahms’s Library: From the Viennese Courts to UNESCO’s “Memory of the World” - Marie Sumner Lott, Georgia State University
The Influence of Post-Romantic Literature on Brahms and His Music - Robert Anderson, University of North Texas
Reevaluating Brahms and Politics: A Perspective from Cultural Nationalism
10:00 Break
10:30–11:30 Dichotomies
Chair: Karen Leistra-Jones, Franklin and Marshall College
- Tekla Babyak, Davis, CA
Modal Humans and Tonal Gods in Brahms’s Gesang der Parzen - David Keep, Hope College
The Brahmsian Sublime
11:30 Lunch
1:30–3:00 Brahms’s Hybrid Metric Dissonances
(themed session)
Convenor: Richard Cohn, Yale University
- Richard Cohn
Introduction, and Hybrid Dissonances as Product Networks - Ryan McClelland, University of Toronto
Hybrid Metric Dissonances and Formal Function in Brahms’s Instrumental Music - Jason Yust, Boston University
Multivalent Displaced Hemiolas in Brahms’s Late Songs
3:00 Break
3:30–4:30 Keynote address
Natasha Loges, Hochschule für Musik Freiburg
Under Pressure: Brahms and Musicology in the 21st Century
Thursday, 10 November
8:30–10:00 Close Hearings
Chair: Peter Smith, University of Notre Dame
- Samuel Hollister, Peabody Conservatory/Johns Hopkins
Uncanny Modulation via Syntactic Dissonance in the Second Movement of Brahms’s First String Quintet - Benedict Taylor, University of Edinburgh
Feinting Repeats, Repeating Feints: The Developmental “Double Return” in Brahms and Sonata Theory Typology - Dani Zanuttini-Frank, Yale University
Metric Motives in Brahms Op. 111
10:00 Break
10:30–11:30 In Performance
Chair: Styra Avins, New York
- Heather Platt, Ball State University
Art Versus Profit: George and Lillian Henschel’s Performances of Brahms’s Lieder - Katharina Uhde, Valparaiso University
“Becoming” Johannes Brahms, the Composer of Violin Concerto Op. 77