Prokofiev Conference in Manchester (7-10 Feb 2003): revised programme (fwd)

[Geoffrey Chew]

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From: Kristian Hibberd <mup01kph at gold.ac.uk>
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Dear Colleagues,

Please find below the revised programme of the Prokofiev 2003 Conference in 
Manchester.
For all Festival and Symposium details go to: 
http://www.sprkfv.net/manchester/festhome.html
or write to this office for a hard copy. [n.mann at gold.ac.uk; fax: 020 7919 
7255]

REMINDER: bookings for the Symposium Dinner must reach us by 2 FEBRUARY at 
the latest.

Noelle Mann
Festival and Conference director



PROKOFIEV AND 20th-CENTURY CULTURE

Sessions and Speakers
[All papers will be delivered in English]

SATURDAY 8 FEBRUARY

8.50am - introduction by Noelle Mann

Session 1: Text and Music (Chair: Noelle Mann)

9am - Caryl Emerson: "Prokofiev's War and Peace: A Tolstoyan perspective."
9.30am - Béatrice Picon-Vallin: "Prokofiev and Meyerhold."
10am - John Elsworth: "Prokofiev and Briusov: the libretto of The Fiery 
Angel."

COFFEE BREAK

Session 2: Ballet - music and staging (Chair: Simon Morrison)

11am - Stephen Press: "Comparing the two versions of Prokofiev's ballet 
Chout (The Buffoon)."
11.30am - Lesley-Anne Sayers: "Visualising Prokofiev's Pas d'Acier: the 
interaction of music and staging in productions of Prokofiev's 'Soviet' 
Ballet."
12.00 - Igor Vishnevetsky: "What happened backstage at the premiere 
performance of Le Pas d'Acier."

LUNCH

Session 3: Music in the Soviet State (Chair: Caryl Emerson)

2pm - Catriona Kelly: "At peace with the wolf? Prokofiev's Soviet works for 
children."
2.30pm - Andreas Wehrmeyer: "Prokofiev's cantatas for the 20th and 30th 
anniversaries of the October Revolution."
3pm - Irina Medvedeva: "Sergei Prokofiev: the 'Black Summer' of 1939."

TEA BREAK

Session 4: The private man (Chair: Andreas Wehrmeyer)

4pm - Per Skans: "Mira Mendelson, Nataliya Vovsi-Mikhoels and Klara Vaks. 
The Jewish connection and its implications for three composers in the late 
Stalinist era."
4.30pm - Marina Rakhmanova: "Prokofiev's last years in the recollections of 
two women."
5pm - Natalia Savkina: "Prokofiev and the Christian Science."


 SUNDAY 9 FEBRUARY

Session 5: Opera (Chair: Noëlle Mann)

9am - Dorothea Redepenning: "The year 1948: Serge Prokofiev and the opera 
Story of a Real Man."
9.30am - Giuseppe Montemagno: "Beyond the grill: Prokofiev and the theatre 
of the convent."
10am - Walter Zidaric: "Love for Three Oranges: between tradition and 
modernity."

COFFEE BREAK

Session 6: Music and Literature (Chair: John Elsworth)

11am - Gerard Abensour & Ludmilla Petchenina: "From Antony to Cleopatra: 
Prokofiev's music for the stage."
11.30am - Dimitri Shapovalov: "Prokofiev and Balmont: lyricism, symbolism, 
and the rejection of irony."
12.00 - Pamela Davidson: "Prokofiev's literary notebook of 1916-1917: 
contents and context."

LUNCH

Session 7: Film music (Chair: Catriona Kelly)

2pm - John Riley: "Alexander Nevsky: from screen to stage."
2.30pm - Inna Romashchuk: "Prokofiev and Popov: a collaborative approach to 
the problem of scenic imagery."

Session 8: Prokofiev and Associates (Chair: Rosamund Bartlett)

3pm - Victor Varunts: "Prokofiev and Stravinsky."
3.30pm - Nelly Kravetz: "Prokofiev and Sherman."

TEA BREAK

Sessions 9 & 10 in parallel

Session 9: Russian emigration in Paris (Chair: Stuart Campbell)

4.30pm - Lev Mnukhin: "Artistic communities and musical life in Russian 
Paris of 1920-1930."
5pm - Elena Poldiaeva: "Prokofiev and the Russian emigre music circles in 
1920s Paris."

Session 10: Prokofiev's music on stage (Chair: David Fanning)

4.30pm - Maria Shcherbakova: "Prokofiev at the Ziloti concerts: from the 
history of symphonic concerts at the MariinskyTheatre, 1915-1916."
5pm - Rosamund Bartlett: "Soviet stagings of Prokofiev's operas."


 MONDAY 10 FEBRUARY

Session 11: Prokofiev's musical language (Chair: David Fanning)

9am - Yuri Kholopov: "Why did Prokofiev write the Classical Symphony?"
9.30am - Daniel Zimmerman: "French 'Asian' music and Prokofiev's Five 
Melodies, Op. 35 No. 2."
10am - Stephen Zank: "Prokofiev in Paris: was he right about Maurice Ravel?"

COFFEE BREAK

11am - Stuart Campbell: "Prokofiev and the Gavotte."
11.30am - Philip Ross Bullock: "The songs of Sergey Prokofiev: texts and 
contexts."

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