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Concerts and special events at AMS Quebec City 2007

• Tuesday evening: "In Paradisum," The Hilliard Ensemble, Palais Montcalm, 8 p.m.

In conjunction with the Quebec Festival of Sacred Music.

• Wednesday evening: Organ Marathon, Saint-Roch Church, 5-10 p.m.

In conjunction with the Quebec Festival of Sacred Music.

Thursday evening: Virtual Acoustics and the Recording of Joseph Haydn’s Keyboard Music, 8 p.m., Quebec City Convention Centre room 202 (FREE) Tom Beghin, Martha de Francisco, Wieslaw Woszczyk, with Erin Helyard, Doyuen Ko, Ryan Miller, Jeremy Tusz (Schulich School of Music, McGill University) This special concert explores the sounds of different historical venues and instruments through sophisticated electronic reproduction and acoustic sampling.

• Thursday evening: Ensemble Romulo Larrea, "Sinfonia del Angel," Saint-Roch Church, 8 p.m.

In conjunction with the Quebec Festival of Sacred Music.

• Friday noon: “Time Suspended: Deliberate Obscurity in Unmeasured Prelude Representation,” Vivian Montgomery (University of Cincinnati), harpsichord. FREE at the Quebec City Convention Centre.

• Friday noon: Luncheon Reception for Robert M. Stevenson

Robert M. Stevenson, born in 1916 and trained in music at Texas, Juilliard, Yale, Rochester, Harvard, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Oxford University, is one of the founders of our field. His teachers included Leo Schrade, Jack Westrup, Arthur Schnabel, and Igor Stravinsky. His election as an Honorary Member by the International Musicological Society in 2006 marks the first such award of its kind since 1992.

This luncheon seeks to honor Professor Stevenson for over a half century of outstanding teaching and original scholarship chiefly in--but not not limited to--Latin American colonial music, resulting in some thirty books, nearly 300 articles, pathbreaking bibliographical work from Renaissance to twentieth-century repertories, as well as his founding of the Inter-American Music Review.

Tickets for the Stevenson Luncheon are no longer available (10/29/07). If you are still interested in attending, stop by the registration desk at the meeting and add your name to the waiting list--a few openings may occur.

• Friday evening: AMS OPUS Cabaret (6:45-9:30 p.m., Musée des Beaux Arts)

This light-hearted evening features AMS members reveling in their performing milieu: featured guests include Joshua Rifkin, Rufus Hallmark, Wendy Heller, Sylvia Kahan, John Covach, Rob Walser, Scott DeVeaux, Brian Mann, and others. Emcee Victor Coelho will lead the evening, which includes light dinner and wine.

Tickets for the AMS OPUS Cabaret are no longer available (10/30/07). If you are still interested in attending, stop by the registration desk at the meeting and add your name to the waiting list--a few openings may occur.

• Friday evening: Jordi Savall , "Les Voix humaines," Saint-Roch Church, 8 p.m.

In conjunction with the Quebec Festival of Sacred Music.

• Saturday noon: “From Scherzo to Son: Piano Music by Cuban Women Composers, c. 1870 to the present,” Margaret E. Lucia (Shippensburg University), Piano. FREE at the Quebec City Convention Centre.

Saturday evening: Pomerium (Alexander Blachly, director), “Battling the Serpent: the Caput and L’homme armé Traditions in Music,” 8 p.m., Church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste, 480, rue St-Jean (about half a km from the convention center) This outstanding vocal ensemble presents music related to recent research in the two particularly intriguing areas. The program is designed to illustrate in sound a recent article by Anne Walters Robertson, “The Savior, the Woman, and the Head of the Dragon in the Caput Masses and Motet,” Journal of the American Musicological Society 59 (2006), 537-696. Robertson shows that the symbolism of Caput was not restricted to Maundy Thursday, as had previously been thought, but instead encompasses a much wider meaning, namely, that of the “head of the dragon,” or evil itself, extending all the way back to the serpent in the Garden of Eden.  She has also demonstrated that the Caput and L’homme armé traditions are linked.

Follow this link to see the entire program and commentary by Alexander Blachly...

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Tickets will be available at the registration desk in Quebec City.

• Saturday evening: Vox Clamantis, "Annum per Annum ," Saint-Roch Church, 8 p.m.

In conjunction with the Quebec Festival of Sacred Music.