Tom Schneller (Ithaca College)

“The ‘Love Theme’ As Marker of Personal Style in Classic Hollywood Music”

Eric McKee (Penn State University)

“The Sound of Romance: Approaches to Sound Design in the Construction
of the Romantic Couple in Early Hollywood Sound Films, 1928–1933”

Nathan Platte (University of Iowa)

“Max Steiner and Robert Wise: Illuminating a Dawn-and-Dusk
Partnership in Hollywood”

Myrna Layton and Janet Bradford (Brigham Young University)

“Gold and Steiner: Masters of Manipulating Motifs”

Gregory Camp (The University of Auckland)

“Musical Dialectics in the Films of Douglas Sirk and Frank Skinner”

Brent Yorgason (Brigham Young University)

“Monothematicism and Fate in Dust Be My Destiny (1939)”
 

Jeff Lyon (Brigham Young University)

“New Surprises for Haydn’s Surprise Symphony: Max Steiner’s Score to the
1939 Film We Are Not Alone”

Michael Harris (University of Memphis)

“The Past, Present, and Hopeful Future of the Collections of Cinema and
Media Music Database”

Jonathan L. Friedmann (Academy for Jewish Religion California)

“Music to Climb By: Rising Chromaticism in Max Steiner’s Score for King Kong”
 

Steven C. Smith (Los Angeles)

“Telling Max’s Story: A Biographer’s Journey”

Jeff Lyon and Brent Yorgason (Brigham Young University)

“The Max Steiner Digital Thematic Catalog: Demonstration and Research Process”

Michael Lee (University of Oklahoma)

“Fractured Reason: The Role of Music in I Walked with a Zombie”

Mariana Whitmer (West Virginia University)

“Dodge City: Steiner’s Early Western Film Scores”

Peter Wegele (Conservatorio Alessandro Scarlatti di Palermo)

“Waltzes for Jezebel and Citizen Kane: Composition – Variation – Deconstruction”

John Morgan, Bill Stromberg, and Stephen Butler

King Kong Panel

Stephen Butler (Independent Scholar)

“An Austrian in Hollywood: Leitmotifs, Key Relationships, and Self-Plagiarism
in Max Steiner’s Music for Now, Voyager and Mildred Pierce”