Spring break, it turns out, is also prime time for conferences. Here are a few highlights featuring Iowa students and faculty. 

Both Danielle Kramer (MA, Musicology) and Dr. Matthew Arndt (Music Theory) presented papers at the Society for Christian Scholarship on Music hosted at Belmont University. Danielle shared a portion of her in-progress thesis in “‘Our Lord was not silent’: Soundtrack and Adaptation in Martin Scorsese’s Silence,” and Dr. Arndt’s paper, “The Fivefold Coding of Indiana Jones and the Abbey of Thelema,” explored the cinematic mashup in an original setting that combined the iconic action hero with Missa brevis Abbaye de Thélème, a recent album from Dr. Jean-François Charles (Composition). 

Blake Cordell (PhD, Composition) and Lucy Shirly (PhD, Composition) also shared recent research at the AMS Midwest spring meeting at Illinois State. Blake Cordell explored “Quartal Gestures in Joe Hisaishi’s Silence,” and Lucy shared “When She Says: Voice and Vocality in the First Movement of Kate Soper’s Only the Words Themselves Mean What They Say, ‘Go Away.’” 

Finally, Dr. Sarah Suhadolnik chaired the session "Music and Place" at the Society for American Music's gathering in Tacoma, Washington.

Thank you all for sharing your work!