Conference on Russian Music

[Robert Bird]

Posted for Rosamund Bartlett:

University of Oxford
European Humanities Research Centre
Malcolm Bowie, FBA, Director

Russian Musical Identity: Past, Present and Future
Two-Day Conference: Friday 17 and Saturday 18 May 2002
The Old Library, All Souls College, Oxford OX1 4AL

This conference has been organised in conjunction with
Oxford Contemporary Music's Russian music series (2
May to 8 June 2002), a programme of performances,
films and discussions featuring the residency of the
New Studio Ensemble from Moscow. Further details may
be obtained from www.ocmevents.org

Friday 17 May
3.00-3.15    Welcome and Introduction
Prof. Malcolm Bowie. EHRC and All Souls College and Dr
Rosamund Bartlett, EHRC, conference chair

3.15-4.15   Session I
Prof. Marina Ritsarev, Department of Music, Bar-Ilan
University, Israel: "The Problem of National Identity
in 18th-                        century Russian Music"

Dr. Leslie Kearney, Hamden, CT, USA, "Intonatsiia:
Identity and Non-Identity in Russian Music"

4.15-4.45 tea

4.45-5.45  Session 2
Dr. Caroline Brooke, Department of History, Queen Mary
College, University of London: "Changing Identities:
The Russian and Soviet National Anthems"

Dr. Philip Bullock, Wolfson College/Sub-Faculty of
Russian, Oxford: "The Formation of National Taste in
the Russian Art Song in the Light of the 1937 Pushkin
Anniversary"

8.00 Oxford Contemporary Music event: Concert by
Stekpanna, Anglo-Scandinavian jazz trio, featuring
Leonid         Vintskevich and David Goloshchokin,
Jacqueline
du Pre Music Building

Saturday 18 May
9.30-10.30 Session 3
Dr. Irina Snitkova, Department of Musicology, Gnesin
Academy, Moscow: "The Music of Ideas and the Idea of
Music:Russian Conceptualism and the Western
Avant-garde"

Prof. Svetlana Savenko, Department of the History of
Russian Music, Moscow Conservatoire: "Tarnopolsky and
Chevengur: Platonov's novel as a Paradigm of
Post-Soviet Musical Culture "

10.30-11.00 Coffee

11.00-12.30 Session 4
Dr. Marina Frolova-Walker, Clare College/Faculty of
Music, University of Cambridge: "The Hidden Fault-Line
in Russian Musical Identity: The 'Tragic Soul' Myth
and Its
Rival"

Dr. Rosamund Bartlett, EHRC/Departments of Russian and
Music, University of Durham: "New Identities: The
Post-Soviet Musical Landscape"

Prof. Alexander Ivashkin, Department of Music,
Goldsmiths College, University of London: "Songs my
mother taught me: Recycling Processes in Soviet
Popular Songs
and in Post-Modern Russian Music"

12.30-2.00 Lunch

2.00-4.00 Session 5
Prof. Vladimir Tarnopolsky, Department of Composition,
Moscow Conservatoire: "When Time Overflows its Banks:
Some Comments on the Opera"

Video-screening of When Time Overflows its Banks,
opera by Vladimir Tarnopolsky based on Chekhov's Three
Sisters, commissioned for the Munich Biennale, 1999

4.00-4.30 Tea and final discussion

5.00-6.30 Oxford Contemporary Music event: Showing of
Evgeny Bauer's Àfter Death (1915), with live
performance by the string trio Triptych of music by
Oxford-based
composer Nicholas Brown, The Auditorium, Magdalen
College

8.00 Oxford Contemporary Music event: Studio for New
Music Ensemble, Moscow, artistic director Vladimir
Tarnopolsky, conductor Igor Dronov: programme of
Russian music of the 1920s, The Auditorium, Magdalen
College



REGISTRATION
All are welcome. There is no registration fee, but
since space is limited those wishing to attend are
asked to notify Margaret Lord at All Souls College,
preferably by e-mail:
margaret.lord at all-souls.ox.ac.uk   Those who attend
should make their own arrangements for lunch and any
accommodation needed.

CONFERENCE INFORMATION
For further information about the conference, please
write to rosamund.bartlett at ehrc.ox.ac.uk

GENERAL INFORMATION
European Humanities Research Centre
76 Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6LE
Tel: +44 (0)1865 284680 Fax: +44 (0)1865 284681
enquiries at ehrc.ox.ac.uk
www.ehrc.ox.ac.uk


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