Events
Music of the Sea Symposium
June 8, 2018 - June 9, 2018
This will be the 39th year the Music of the Sea symposium, held this year on June 8 and 9 in the Greenmanville Church on the grounds of Mystic Seaport Museum, in Mystic, CT.
Friday
8:30 Coffee
9:00 Welcoming Remarks
9:15 Stephen N. Sanfilippo: “Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me”: Sag Harbor’s Whaling Hymn and One Man’s Voyage of the Thames
10:00 Isaiah Green: Imaginative Sonic Ecologies and French Expressionism in Debussy’s “La Mer”
10:45 Morning Break
11:00 Tim Radford: Songs of South Hampshire Waterways
11:45 Michael Derderian: Yankee Privateer: Celebrating the Continental Navy’s Most Lucrative Cruise
12:30 Lunch
1:45 Scott C. Martin: “Farewell to Grog”: The Union Navy’s Campaign against Alcohol
2:30 Amanda E. Daly Berman: “Sounding Southie”: The Changing Soundscape of Boston’s Seaport District
Saturday
8:30 Coffee
9:00 Welcoming Remarks
9:15 Panel Discussion: Patrick Ford, Craig Edwards, Geoff Kaufman, Denise Kegler: Exploring Musical Treasures in the Mystic Seaport Collections: Research, Exhibits, and Interpretation
10:00 Edie Stern: From the Sea to the Stars: Maritime Music and Science Fiction
11:00 Vienna Carroll: “Shallow Brown”: Developing a Musical Play About Pre-Civil War African-American Sailors
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