Here are the NABMSA election results (via Jennifer Oates):
President – Eric Saylor
Secretary – Danielle Ward-Griffin
Board – Jenny Doctor and Christopher Scheer
Thank you to all who ran. A special thanks to our out-going officers and the tremendous work they have done: Candace Bailey (President), Nathaniel Geoffrey Lew (Secretary), Dorothy de Val and Justin Vickers (board).
In addition to announcing Ruth Solie as our second lifetime member, the winner of the Diana McVeagh Book Prize was announced:
Rebecca Herissone, Musical Creativity in Restoration England (Cambridge, 2013)
Stephen Lloyd’s Constant Lambert: Beyond the Rio Grande (Boydell, 2014) received honorable mention.
The new issue of NABMSA Reviews is now posted, with reviews of:
Check it out here, along with all the past issues: http://nabmsa.org/nabmsa-reviews/
Conference
July 29-31, 2016
Downing College, University of Cambridge
Scholars will present papers exploring the period’s dance, music and drama from a wide range of historical and methodological perspectives. The keynote address, ‘London as Theatre: Entertainment for Free in the Regency City’, will be given by Celina Fox (The Arts of Industry in the Age of Enlightenment), and historical gesture specialist Jed Wentz (Conservatorium van Amsterdam) will present a lecture-performance on ‘Reconstructing Late Eighteenth-Century Acting’. In addition, the conference will open with an introduction by Iain Mackintosh (Architecture, Actor and Audience) at the remarkable Cambridge Festival Theatre (built in 1814), providing a rare opportunity for conference attendees to see an original surviving Regency three-level horseshoe auditorium.
For further details and to book your place, please see: www.regencytheatre2016.com
Hurry! Early Bird rates expire on 31 December!
Convenors: Michael Burden, Michael Gaunt, Sarah Meer, Marcus Risdell, Vanessa L. Rogers, Barry Sheppard