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Athena Festival 2009 Tentative Schedule of Events
 
Tuesday, March 10th
 
all day
Quad State Junior Choral Festival
Lovett Auditorium
 
 
10:00am
Reading Session
Performing Arts Hall
 
 
2:15pm
Choir Clinic
Lovett Auditorium
 
6:30pm
Quad State Junior Choral Festival Concert
Lovett Auditorium
 
 
 
 
Wednesday, March 11th
 
10:00am
Meet the Composer Concert with Ruth Elaine Schram
Lovett Auditorium
 
1:30pm
Electronic Music Concert
Performing Arts Hall
 
4:00pm
Master Class with Judit Lang Zaimont
Performing Arts Hall
 
8:00pm
MSU Faculty Chamber Music Concert
Performing Arts Hall
Premier of 2009 Athena Festival Chamber Music Competition: "Gust of Embers" by HyeKyung Lee
Music of Judith Lang Zaimont
 
 
 
Thursday, March 12th
 
9:30am
The 1970's: Women's Liberation
Performing Arts Hall
Dr. Rebecca Sorley, University of Indianapolis

Libertarian Women in the Age of Enlightenment: Three Female Characters of Mozart's Don Giovanni and the Rise of the Prima Donna in 18th century Europe.
Farrell Recital Hall
Dr. Kristen A. Wunderlich, Winthrop University
 
10:30am
Coffee Break
 
11:00am
Gender, Justice, and Joy: African American Women Composers Sing into the 21st Century
Performing Arts Hall
Dr. Sonya Baker, Murray State University
Dr. Eileen Strempel, Syracuse University
 
12:30pm
Lunch
 
1:30pm
Imaging the Composer Today: Inside the Profession of Music
Performing Arts Hall
Judith Lang Zaimont, Athena Festival featured composer
 
2:30pm
Clara Kathleen Rogers (1844-1931): Composer, Pedagogue, and Author
Performing Arts Hall
Dr. Andrew Adams, Western Carolina University
Dr. Kristine Hurst-Wajszczuk, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Dr. Christina Reitz, Western Carolina University

O Let Me Weep: Distressed Women in Music, 1650-1750
Farrell Recital Hall
Dr. Vivan Montgomery, University of Cincinnati CCM
Emily Eagen, freelance soloist and ensemble singer
 
3:30pm
Learning to be Crazy: Composing Mennonite Women's Stories into Song
Performing Arts Hall
Dr. Carol Ann Weaver, University of Waterloo, Ontario
Rebecca Campbell, singer/songwriter

Women, Music, and Social Protest
Farrell Recital Hall
Dr. Eldonna May, Wayne State University
 
4:30pm
Master Class with Judith Lang Zimont
Performing Arts Hall
 
8:00pm
MSU Concert Choir and Chamber Singers Concert
Lovett Auditorium
Premier of 2009 Almquist Award choral compositions: "Blessed Be the Flower That Triumphs at Last" and "The Journey" by Elizabeth Alexander
 
 
 
Friday, March 13th
 
9:30am
Germaine Tailleferre: Duo-Piano Pieces
Performing Arts Hall
Dr. Susan Wheatley, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Intuitive Elements in Jennifer Higdon's Concerto for Orchestra
Farrell Recital Hall
Dr. Christina Reitz, Western Carolina University
 
10:30am
Composer Forum
Performing Arts Hall
Judith Lang Zaimont, HyeKyung Lee, and Elizabeth Alexander
 
11:30am
I Will Sing You A Song: The Art Songs of Jocelyn Hagen
Performing Arts Hall
Dr. Joyce Hall Wolf, Eastern Kentucky University
Jocelyn Hagen, Minneapolis MN
Ryan Shirar, Eastern Kentucky University

Untying Her Tongue: Gender Performance and Voice in the Songs of Laurie Anderson
Farrell Recital Hall
Lisa R. Coons, doctoral student, Princeton University
 
12:30pm
Lunch
 
1:30pm
The Revolutionary Percussion Music of Johanna Magdalena Beyer
Performing Arts Hall
Ron Coulter, Southern Illinois University
SIU Percussion Ensemble

Student Sessions #1 - Marian Anderson
Farrell Recital Hall
Rebecca Feldhaus, Murray State University
 
2:00pm
Student Sessions #2 - Nadia Boulanger: Her Life and Teaching
Farrell Recital Hall
Emily Wuchner, Murray State University
 
2:30pm
Student Sessions #3 - Sofia Gubaidulina's Resistance to Socialist Reform
Farrell Recital Hall
Ted Moore, Luther College
 
3:00pm
Student Sessions #4 - The Salons of Barbara Strozzi, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, and Pauline Viardot
Farrell Recital Hall
Jasmine Davis, Murray State University
 
3:30pm
SAI Sponsored Recital
Performing Arts Hall
 
 
6:00pm
Gala Dinner and Keynote Address
Curris Center
 
 
8:00pm
MSU Jazz Orchestra Concert
Lovett Auditorium
Todd Hill, director
 
 
 
  Eleanor Brown, Festival Director
Athena Festival
Department of Music
504 Fine Arts Building
Murray State University
Murray, Kentucky 42071

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