A Performance of Biblical Proportions News of the Society by Reba Wissner President’S Message
The Newsletter of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music Vol. 21, No. 2, Spring 2012 AMS 2011: A Tasting Menu by Virginia Christy Lamothe an Francisco is a city that reflects a provided an exciting setting for the seventy- provide a taste of the exciting goods on confluence of cultures, especially in seventh annual meeting of the American offer in San Francisco. Smusic. The 1920s saw the beginnings Musicological Society, November 10–13, On Thursday afternoon, a session of the city’s first opera company, now the 2011. Presentations capturing the diversity dedicated to French music included a second largest in North America. In the of seventeenth-century music and scholarly presentation by Rebekah Ahrendt that 1960s, the City (as it is known in the Bay approaches to it were heard throughout offered a unique view of the “chanson à Area) became a hub for counter-cultural the conference. Continuing a recent trend danser” as a vehicle for acting out different music of the “hippie” generation. Today toward avoidance of chronological “ghet- social classes through speech, music, and music from around the world in every tos” in favor of topic-based, mixed-period dance. That evening, a panel sponsored genre can be heard at historic venues, sessions, the papers relevant to the Society by the Committee on Women and Gender including the Fillmore, the Great American were scattered throughout the program, investigated conformity in aspects of gender, Music Hall, the Palace of Fine Arts, and the often appearing in simultaneous sessions. racial, and class differences. On this panel, War Memorial Opera House.
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