The annual meetings of the American Musicological Society (AMS), Society for Music Theory (SMT), and Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) are great places to share new research and keep current with scholarship and reconnect with past and present students, colleagues, and friends: Kimberly Beck, Joseph Matson, Michael Accino.

Jennifer Iverson recently presented “Ligeti and the Evolution of Klangfarbenmelodie” at the 2013 Ligeti Symposium and Festival. The paper traces the dual lineages for the reception history of “sound-color-melody, from Schoenberg and Webern through Adorno to Ligeti.

The University of Iowa was well represented at the annual conference of the Society for American Music, held in Charlotte, North Carolina, March 14-18, 2012. Two faculty, one current student, and one former student presented papers: Nathan Platte, Kery Lawson, Marian Wilson Kimber, and Michael Accinno.