We held our first in-person session at the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society (AMS) since 2019:
Mozart Society of America
Business Meeting and Study Session
Hilton New Orleans Riverside
Grand Ballroom B
Friday, 11 November 2022
7:00-9:00 p.m., CST
The Business Meeting included reports on our activities over the past year and on our future plans, as well as the announcement of the winner of this year’s Marjorie Weston Emerson Award.
Our Study Session had as its theme
Mozart and Bologne in Paris – 1763-66, 1778
with the following presentations:
- Bruce Alan Brown (University of Southern California), “The ‘alten Miserablen französischen arien’ in Mozart’s Ballet Les Petits Riens”
- Julia Doe (Columbia University), “Mozart and Bologne in Paris, 1763-66”
- Julian Ledford (Sewanee: The University of the South), “Problematizing Mozart noir”
- Caryl Clark (University of Toronto), “Did Bologne and Mozart Ever Meet?”
Following the session, we held the
Eighteenth-Century Music Societies Joint Reception
Hilton New Orleans Riverside
Grand Ballroom B
Friday, 11 November 2022
9:30-11:30 p.m., CST
which was open to MSA members and to members of the American Bach Society, American Handel Society, Haydn Society of North America, and the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, as well as other attendees of the meeting. There was a cash bar and complimentary light refreshments, as well as plenty of opportunity to socialize with friends old and new.