PART 2:
1950-2000 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
May 7-9, 2009
For the first part of the conference, which took place in Cambridge during Fall 2008, click here.
All sessions and concerts are free, registration is not required. A PDF of the program is available here.
| 16:00-17:30 | Keynote lecture: Berndt Ostendorf (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität): Growing up in the Sixties: Contradictions of a Frankfurt School Fan of American Music |
| 17:30-18:30 | Welcome Reception |
| 18:30-19:15 | Steve Reich and the Sound of Words: Paul Hillier in conversation with Steve Reich |
| 20:00 | Concert with the Chiara String Quartet (Blodgett Artists-in-Residence, Harvard University). Erich Wolfgang Korngold - String Quartet No. 3, Op. 32 Steve Reich - Different Trains Béla Bartók - String Quartet No. 6 |
| 9:00- 12:00 | Session I: Cultural Politics in the Cold War Chair: Anne Shreffler (Harvard University) |
| Penny Von Eschen (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor): Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War: The Eastern Bloc Tours | |
| Zbigniew Granat (Nazareth College): An East Side Story: Polish Soil, American Jazz, and the Thing that Grew | |
| Emily Abrams Ansari (Harvard University; University of Western Ontario): “A Serious and Delicate Mission”: The Government-Funded European Tours of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic, 1952-1968 | |
| Claudia Vincis (Luigi Nono Archives): “To Nono: a No”: Luigi Nono and his Intolleranza 1965 in the US | |
| 12:00-14:00 | Lunch on your own |
| 14:00-16:00 | Session II: Technological Intersections Chair: Volker Straebel (Technische Universität Berlin) |
| Amy Beal (University of California, Santa Cruz): Musica Elettronica Viva and the Art Ensemble of Chicago: Technology, Tradition, and Improvisation in Self-Exile, ca. 1970 | |
| Nicola Scaldaferri (University of Milan): The Voice and the Tape: Musical, Aesthetic, and Techological Interactions in the European Electronic Studios during the 50s | |
| Veniero Rizzardi (University of Venezia): The Complete Birth of the Loop: Terry Riley in Paris | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Coffee Break |
| 16:30-18:30 | Session III: Institutional Havens and Confrontations Chair: Carol Oja (Harvard University) |
| Martin Brody (Wellesley College, American Academy in Rome): Cold War Genius: Music and Cultural Diplomacy at the American Academy in Rome | |
| Max Noubel (University of Bourgogne): The Ensemble InterContemporain and Its America | |
| Steve Swayne (Dartmouth College): Irresistible Vision Meets Immovable Reality: William Schuman and the Lincoln Center Festivals of the 1960s | |
| 18:30-19:30 | Snacks |
| 19:30 | Concert: Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo with guests Benjamin Engel and Anton Kernjak Steve Reich - Piano Phase für 2 Klaviere György Ligeti - Drei Stücke für zwei Klaviere Betsy Jolas - Teletalks* Betsy Jolas - callingecallingec (for Elliott Carter)* Edgard Varèse - Amériques (Fassung für 2 Klaviere, 8 Hände von E. Vàrese)* *) European Premiere |
| 10:00-12:00 | Session IV: Musical Languages: Convergences and Divergences Chair: Meret Forster (Bayerischer Rundfunk München) |
| Hermann Danuser (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin): Postmoderne – diesseits / jenseits von Atlantik und Moderne | |
| Felix Wörner (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): Transmitting Schoenberg's Legacy into a New World | |
| Angela De Benedictis (Pavia University): Indeterminacy and Open Work in the United States and Europe: Freedom from Control vs. Control of Freedom | |
| 14:00-17:30 | Session V: Questioning Hierarchies, Challenging Boundaries Chair: Christopher Balme (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München) |
| David Nicholls (University of Southampton): “All Made of [Classical] Tunes”: Towards a Taxonomy of Rock’s Art Music Borrowings | |
| Claudia di Luzio (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin): “L'opera è aperta”: Luciano Berios experimentelles Musiktheater der amerikanischen Jahre | |
| J. Griffith Rollefson (University of Wisconsin, Madison): Musical (African) Americanization in the New Europe: Hip Hop, Race, and the Cultural Politics of Postcoloniality in Contemporary Paris, Berlin, and London. | |
| Closing Discussion | |
| 18:00 | Piano Recital: Bruce Brubaker (New England Conservatory) with guest Amy Williams Sylvano Bussotti - Three Piano Pieces for David Tudor Alvin Curran – Hope Street Tunnel Blues III Earle Brown – Twentyfive Pages |