Conference programme: Janacek's Brno, London, October 22-24

[Geoffrey Chew]

[Registration is still possible for the event detailed below: contact
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 Geoffrey Chew
 Music Department, Royal Holloway College (University of London)
 Internet:       chew at sun.rhbnc.ac.uk

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                        International Conference
                         A Tale of Three Cities
                 Janacek's Brno Between Vienna and Prague
          Senate House, University of London, 22-24 October 1999


Programme

                               Friday 22 October


8.30-10.00 Registration and coffee

9.30 Welcome and Introduction to Conference: Prof. Robert Pynsent
(SSEES/UCL); Prof. Tim Carter (Royal Holloway)

Session 1: Janacek and Language

9.55 Albert van der Schoot (University of Amsterdam): Creating a Musical
Vernacular from Natural Sources

10.20 Paul Christiansen (University of California, Davis): At Sixes and
Sevens with Fourths and Fifths: A Linguistic Look at Janacek's Notebooks

11.00 Coffee

Session 2: Janacek, Brno and Nationalism

11.30 Jarmila Gabrielova (Charles University, Prague): Janacek's and
Foerster's Glagolitic Masses: Their Historical and Liturgical Background

11.55 Allison Nowicki (Yale University): "The Small End of the Telescope":
Janacek, Chamber Music and Nationalism

12.20 Jarmila Prochazkova (Brno): Political Aspects of Janacek's
Activities and his Response to Social Events, 1891-1918

12.45 Discussion

1.00 Lunch break

Session 3: Janacek, Brno and Vienna

2.00 Joseph N. Rostinsky (Tokai University, Tokyo): Leos Janacek --
Emblematic Conundrum of Being Moravian

2.25 Melita Milin (Institute of Musicology, Belgrade): Dreams of Being
Accepted: Janacek's and Freud's Vienna

2.50 Paul Wingfield (Trinity College, Cambridge): Janacek's Uplna nauka o
harmonii in the Context of Contemporary Viennese Harmonic Theory

3.15 Julian Johnson (University of Sussex): Janacek, Mahler and the
Schoenberg School: Regional Voices and Imperial Aesthetics

3.40 Discussion

4.00 Tea

Session 4: Analysis and Hermeneutics

4.30 John K. Novak (Northern Illinois University): The Issues and Import
of Janacek's Key Preference

4.55 Arnold Whittall (King's College, London): Janacek and the String
Quartet in the 1920s: Aspects of Rhetoric and Allusion

5.30 Dinner break

7.30 Recital at St Giles-in-the-Fields, London WC2: Matthew Elton Thomas,
Songs by Leos Janacek, Vitezslav Novak, Otakar Ostrcil, Franz Schreker,
Alexander Zemlinsky and Richard Strauss



Saturday 23 October

Session 5: Janacek and Modernism(s)

9.30 Christopher Long (University of Texas at Austin): Architecture in
Brno from Historicism to Functionalism, 1880-1930

9.55 Thomas D. Svatos (University of California, Santa Barbara): Martinu
on Music and Culture: Some Thoughts in Relation to Janacek's Aesthetic
Background

10.20 Mikulas Bek (Charles University, Prague): Janacek contra Nejedly:
The Controversy about Modern Czech Music

10.45 Discussion

11.00 Coffee

Session 6: Naturalism(s) and the Alternatives

11.30 Robert Pynsent (SSEES ): The Brno Naturalist, Josef Merhaut

11.55 Jenifer Cushman (University of Minnesota Morris): Boehmisches
Volkslied / Narodni tance na Morave: Czech Nationalism in the Works of
Rilke and Janacek during the 1890s

12.20 Geoffrey Chew (Royal Holloway): How Threatened was Smetana's
Heritage?: Jugendstil and the Alternatives in Early Twentieth-Century
Czech Solo Song

12.45 Discussion

1.00 Lunch break

Session 7: Provincialism(s) and Metropolitanism(s)

2.00 Michael Beckerman (University of California, Santa Barbara): Small
Town Boys, City Air

2.25 Nigel Simeone (University of Wales, Bangor): Janacek and Klemperer

2.50 Erik Levi (Royal Holloway): Janacek Reception in Germany During the
Weimar Republic and the Third Reich

3.15 Nico Schuler (Michigan State University): Music and Musical Life of
the Germans in Brno, January 1920: A Case Study

3.35 Discussion

4.00 Tea

Session 8: Janacek and Orientalism

4.30 Jiri Fukac (Masaryk University, Brno): The East-West Polarization in
Brno Culture

4.55 Gerald Seaman (St. Antony's College, Oxford): Janacek's Indebtedness
to Russian Music

5.20 Arnold McMillin (SSEES): More Affection than Affinity: The Re-Reading
of Russian Literature in Janacek's Music

5.45 Mary Kalil (Princeton University): Speech and the Sparks of God in
Janacek's and Dostoevsky's House of the Dead

6.05 Discussion

6.20 Dinner break

7.30 Keynote Lecture
Roger Scruton: Schoenberg or Janacek? Two Kinds of Modernism

8.30 Reception and Launch of Janacek Studies, ed. Paul Wingfield
(Cambridge University Press, 1999)



                              Sunday 24 October

Session 9: Operas and librettos I

9.30 David Chirico (SSEES): Preissova and Janacek

9.55 Mark Audus (University of Nottingham): A Tale of Four Operas: Jenufa
Uncovered

10.20 Dimitra Stamogiannou (Darwin College, Cambridge): Jenufa, Kat'a and
Opera in Brno, Prague, Berlin and Vienna, c. 1918-1926

10.45 Alfred Thomas (Harvard University): Depoliticizing Preissova: J. B.
Foerster's Eva and L. Janacek's Jenufa

11.10 Discussion

11.25 Coffee

11.50 John Tyrrell (London): Janacek's Artistic Taste

12.15 Sir Charles Mackerras in interview with John Tyrrell

12.40 Round-table discussion

1.00 Lunch break

Session 10: Janacek and Feminism

2.00 Anne Jamison (Princeton University): Music, Maids and Milen(k)y:
Pragerkreis Readings of Czech Women Writers

2.25 Diane Paige (University of California at Santa Barbara): Janacek's
Brno and Czech Feminism

2.50 Ian Biddle (Newcastle University): Gender and the Search for Identity
in Janacek's "Kreutzer Sonata"

3.15 Discussion

3.30 Tea

Session 10: Operas and librettos II

4.00 Derek Katz (University of California at Santa Barbara): Don Juan in
Prague and Brno: Janacek and 20th-Century Czech Don Juans

4.25 Joanna Harris (Trinity College, Cambridge): Janacek and Berg as
Librettists

4.50 Karel Brusak (University of Cambridge): Janacek's Librettos

5.15 Round-table discussion and concluding remarks

6.00 Conference ends