Actualités musicales du 23 septembre 2015

mercredi 23 septembre 2015

The Transformative Power of Art. Richard Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk and Christoph Schlingensief's participatory experiment Opera Village Africa

5-6 février 2016, Londres
An Interdisciplinary Conference
The Courtauld Institute of Art, London
February 5-6, 2016
Deadline: Nov 6, 2015

https://courtauld.ac.uk/event/the-transformative-power-of-art

SPEAKERS:

Prof John Deathridge (King's College London), Chris Dercon (Tate Modern), Prof Lydia Goehr (Columbia University, New York), Aino Laberenz (Opera Village Africa), Gregor Muir (ICA)

The aim of this conference is to explore Christoph Schlingensief's participatory art project Opera Village Africa against the backdrop of Richard Wagner's idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk. We wish to approach this topic from the perspective of multiple disciplines including anthropology, art history, cultural studies, history, musicology, philosophy, postcolonial studies and theatre studies.

The founding of the Opera Village Africa in Burkina Faso is inextricably linked with Schlingensief's critical engagement with the writing and music of Richard Wagner, who served Schlingensief throughout his career as a touch-stone for a process of working through the heritage of the German past. The soundtrack to Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel's Un Chien Andalou (1928) initially evoked Schlingensief's ambiguous fascination for Wagner. Schlingensief's Parsifal production for the Bayreuth Festival on which he collaborated with the conductor Pierre Boulez in 2004 became pivotal to his subsequent projects. Disillusioned about the elitism and inaccessibility of opera, Schlingensief desired to do justice to the young Wagner's anarchist ideas of a Gesamtkunstwerk that is accessible for everyone.

Did Schlingensief succeed in bringing Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk to life in the twenty-first century? This is the question our conference will address and, we hope, attempt to answer.

Abstracts are invited for presentations of 20-25 minutes followed by discussion. Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words and a brief biography that explains your interest in this area of research to Sarah Hegenbart: sarah.hegenbart -at- courtauld.ac.uk by 6 November 2015.

Musicians in Context: Composers, Performers, Listeners

15-16 avril 2016, Cincinnati

CFP Deadline: December 15, 2015
Conference Date: April 15–16, 2016
https://ccm.uc.edu/music/cmt/events/mtms.html
Student Conference at the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music (CCM)

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Music Theory & Musicology Society of CCM is pleased to announce its sixth biennial student conference, “Musicians in Context: Composers, Performers, Listeners.” The conference will feature keynote addresses by Janet Schmalfeldt (Tufts University) and Neal Zaslaw (Cornell University).

Proposals for paper and poster presentations may address a broad range of topics within the fields of music theory and musicology. Additional consideration will be given to proposals that directly address the conference theme by discussing music in the context of its composers, performers, and listeners.

Students may submit both a paper and a poster proposal, provided the presentations are on different topics. Paper presentations will be twenty minutes long, with an additional ten minutes for questions.

All submissions must include the following:

1. A proposal of no more than 500 words. Please include the title of the presentation but omit any personal identifiers such as the author's name and any institutional affiliation. Footnotes will be included in the word count, but appended musical examples and/or lists of resources will not. Please limit submissions to three supplemental pages of examples.

2. A cover letter including the title of the presentation, the format of the presentation (paper or poster), the author's name, institutional affiliation, phone number, email address, and a list of any audio/visual equipment needed for the presentation.

Proposals and cover letters must be submitted as separate PDF files to <ccm.mtms@gmail.com>. All submissions must be received no later than December 15, 2015. Upon acceptance, presenters will be asked to provide an abstract suitable for publication in the conference program.

More information regarding travel and accommodations will be posted on our website, <https://ccm.uc.edu/music/cmt/events/mtms.html>.

Please email all inquiries to Jesse Kinne at <ccm.mtms -at- gmail.com>.

Le Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin dément la nomination de Vladimir Jurowski

Le Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, l'Orchestre symphonique de la radio de Berlin par la voix de sa porte-parole, dément la nomination de Vladimir Jurowski comme directeur musical.

La porte-parole de l'orchestre a déclaré lundi dernier qu'il n'est question que d'entretiens avec le chef d'orchestre. La Radio Berlin-Beandenburg associée au Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin avait annoncé vendredi dernier la nomination du chef d'orchestre russe en remplacement de Marek Janowski.

Ce dernier, âgé de 76 ans, a annoncé en avril dernier qu'il abandonnerait son poste à la direction musicale de l'ensemble symphonique à la fin de son contrat, en été 2016.

Jurowski est depuis 2007 directeur musical de l'Orchestre symphonique de Londres avec un contrat qui court jusqu'en 2018. Né à Moscou, il vit à Berlin depuis 1990, où il a été maître de chapelle à l'Opéra-Comique de 1997 à 2002.