Texas A&M University-Kingsville | Dr. Stephen H. Tallant Music Building | Recital Hall
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9:00-9:45 a.m. Registration
9:45-10:00 a.m. Welcome Messages
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Music Theory in Pedagogy, Pop, and Performance
Yulianna C. Molina (Texas State University), “Social Media as a Space for Collaborative MusicTheory Learning”
Abigail Rush (Texas State University), The Impact of Primary Instruments on Music Theory and Aural Skills Success
James MacKay (Loyola University), Old Wine in New Wineskins: Billy Joel and the Romanesca Schema
Joachim Reinhuber (Texas A&M University – Kingsville), Lecture-Recital: Reflections in Tonality
12:00-1:30 p.m. Lunch Break
1:30-3:00 p.m. Women and Music
Lani Himegarner (Rice University), Feminine Themes: Gendered Rhetoric in Sonata Form as Ignored by Rebecca Clarke
Nova Celine Sepulveda (Valerie Public Schools), American Music, Gender & Labor—Invisible Work: Women Copyists, Arrangers, and Musical Labor in Early Hollywood
Kathryn Fenton (Texas A&M University – Kingsville), Afterlives of a Portrait: Reconstructing the Early Career of Marie Roemaet Rosanoff
3:00-3:30 p.m. Coffee Break
3:30-5:00 p.m. Workshop: Music History Pedagogy and State Teacher Licensing Exams
5:00-7:00 p.m. Dinner Break
7:00 p.m. Mariachi Javelina Performance
1Saturday, April 11, 2026
8:00-8:30 a.m. Registration
8:30-10:00 a.m. Archives
Melissa Camp (Trinity University), …And Ella Fitzgerald: Cultural Hybridity, Arab American Families, and Archive in the Kmeid-Ellis Family Record Collection
Lauryn Salazar (Tarleton State University), Musical Repatriation: The Donald Borcherdt Collection at the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive
Adolfo Estrada (Tarleton State University), Exploring the Musical Archive: An Analysis of Proto-Mariachi Traditions and Musical Transformations
10:00-10:30 a.m. Coffee Break
10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. Identity and Ideology
Ben Cantrell (Baylor University and McLennan Community College), Nostalgia, Landscape, and the Codification of Modern Swiss Compositional Identity in Hans Huber’s “Schweizerische” Symphony
David Catchpole (Texas State University), Sonic Sugar Coating and Bitter Pills: Antisemitis and the Ford Sunday Evening Hourm
11:30-1:00 p.m. Lunch Break
1:00-2:30 p.m. Texas Women in Music History
Kimberly Beck Hieb (West Texas A&M University), From Women’s Clubs to Concert Halls: Radie Britain as an Alternative Model of Musical Success in Twentieth-century America
David Flores Jr. (Texas A&M University – Kingsville), The Selena Audience: South Texan Perspectives on Selena Quintanilla-Pérez
Randy Kinnett (Collin College), Teaching Dallas to Listen: Sudie Williams and the first Dallas Music Memory Contests
2:30-2:45 p.m. Coffee Break
2:45-3:45 p.m. Business Meeting
4:00-5:00 p.m. Keynote: Dr. Katherine K. Preston
5:45 p.m. Optional Excursion: Padre Island National Seashore