AMS/SMT Indianapolis 2010
Call for Performances
Deadline: 5 p.m. EST, 15 January 2010
The AMS Performance Committee invites proposals for concerts, lecture-recitals, and other performances and performance-related events during the 2010 Indianapolis Annual Meeting. The committee encourages proposals that demonstrate the Society’s diversity of interests, range of approaches, and geographic and chronological breadth. We welcome performances that are inspired by or complement new musicological finds, that develop a point of view, or that offer a programmatic focus. The 2010 Annual Meeting will be held jointly with the Society for Music Theory, and we especially invite proposals that will be of interest to members of both societies.
Freelance artists as well as performers and ensembles affiliated with colleges, universities, or conservatories are encouraged to submit proposals; available times for presentations include lunch hours, afternoons, and Thursday evening (4 November 2010).
Required application materials include: (1) an application cover sheet (available from the AMS office or at www.ams-net.org/indianapolis); (2) a proposed program, listing repertory, performer(s), and the duration of each work; (3) a list of audio-visual and performance needs; (4) a short (100-word) biography of each participant named in the proposal; (5) for concerts, a one-page explanation of the significance of the program or manner of performance; for lecture-recitals, a description (two pages maximum) explaining the significance of the program or manner of performance, and a summary of the lecture component, including information about the underlying research, its methodology, and conclusions; (6) audio or visual materials (twenty minutes maximum) that are representative of the program and performers.
An individual may not present both a paper and a performance (or lecture-recital) at the meeting. If an individual submits proposals to both the AMS or SMT Program Committee and the Performance Committee and both are selected, she or he will be given an early opportunity to decide which invitation to accept and which to decline.
Please see the Application Cover Sheet for proposal submission details. Materials must be received at the AMS office no later than 5 p.m. EST, 15 January 2010. Due to the high volume of applications, exceptions cannot be made to this deadline; please plan accordingly. Receipts will be sent to those who have submitted proposals by the deadline, and the committee’s decisions will communicated by 7 April.
—David Schulenberg, Performance Committee Chair
