UNDERGRADUATE HONORS SYMPOSIUM:
The Jazz Age

April 15, 2005
Laurie White, Coordinator

Welcome & Opening Remarks
Dennis Leyden, Director of the Honors Program
Laurie White, Assistant Director of the Honors Program

Edgard Varèse
David Fox, "The 1920s as a Watershed in the Music of Edgard Varèse"
Patrick Smith, "Varèse & Futurism"
Respondent: Andrew Willis, School of Music

Jazz and the Blues
Rusty Angell, "Blue Monday: Gershwin's First Jazz Opera"
Salima Thomas, "The Influence of Female Singers on Blues Music during the 1920s"
Laura Doyle, "The Birth of French Jazz in the 1920s"
Respondent: Hope Hodgekins, Department of English

All that Jazz: Charette on Music + Architecture
May Por and April Lewis (presenters)
Jennifer Tate, Stephanie Ferris, Jennifer Smith, Kate Solomon, Sarah Welch, Kareem Beaver, Bree Corsale, Jennifer Adler, Lila McMillan, and Tiffany Kallenbeck (additional participants)
Instructor: Patrick Lucas, Department of Interior Architecture
(an Interior Architecture [S]Class presentation)

A Musical Miscellany
Drury Fulcher, "Understanding Primitivism in the 1920s"
Paul Stern, "Aaron Copeland & the Emancipation of American Music"
Braxton Sherouse, "Knowledge & Belief: Basic Elements of Nadia Boulanger's Teaching"
Walter Beale, Department of English

Banquet
Keynote Speaker: Elizabeth Keathley, School of Music
"Jazz & the New Woman
6:00 Virginia Dare Room, Alumni House

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