SCHEDULE OF EVENTS


The symposium is free and open to the public, and there is no need to pre-register. See LOGISTICS for directions to the Graduate Center. 

Copies of Unfinished Music, newly available in paperback, will be available for sale at a 20% discount, courtesy of Oxford University Press.


9:00 Coffee, welcoming remarks

9:30-10:15
Kristina Muxfeldt (Indiana University)
“Some Consequences of Figaro

10:15-11:00
Lewis Lockwood (Harvard University)
"Transformation within the Frame: Beethoven's Revision of  the First Movement of the Cello Sonata in A Major, Op. 69"

11:00 coffee

11:15-12:00 

Scott Burnham (Princeton University)
"Thresholds Between, Worlds Apart:  On the Adagio of Schubert's String Quintet"

12:00-12:45
Blake Howe (Louisiana State University)
“Schubert at the 'Final Barrier'”

12:45-2:00 lunch

2:00-2:45
Leo Treitler (CUNY Graduate Center)
“Reflections on Our Mimetic Heritage from Plato to Louis Vuitton”

2:45-3:30
Annette Richards (Cornell University)
"Making Music History: Portraits, Anecdotes and C. P. E. Bach"

3:30 break

3:45-5:45
PAPERS AND PANEL: "Music Finished and Unfinished"
Scott Burnham, moderator

SHORT PAPERS:

Robert Marshall (Brandeis University)
"Killing--and Burying--Sebastian"

Janet Schmalfeldt (Tufts University) 
"The Performer asks: 'Who am I'?"


James Webster (Cornell University)
"The Search for the Ineffable"

DISCUSSANTS: 
Lewis Lockwood
Annette Richards
Leo Treitler

5:45 Reception