RUSSIAN MUSICAL CULTURE. March 4-5 symposium at UPenn

[Ilya Vinitskiy]

Dear colleagues,

The Slavic Department at the University of Pennsylvania proudly announces a
two-day symposium with the title, "Euterpe in Furs: Russian Musical Culture
of
the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries." The symposium is devoted to the
discussion of Russian music in its relations to literature, theater, visual
arts, anthropology, social history, philosophy, and other relevant areas.

The symposium will begin on Thursday, March 4 in the evening at the Penn
Humanities Forum with a concert of Russian chamber music for guitar by Oleg
Timofeev. The symposium will continue the next day, March 5, at 11 am in the
new Max Kade Center, located at 3401 Walnut Street in Philadelphia.

As was the case with last year's Slavic Department symposium on Russian
Formalism, this year's event will feature original article-length (25-30pp.)
papers by each participant, which will be pre-circulated to conference
participants and audience members (further details can be found at:
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/slavic/calendar/music_seminar.htm). Participants
will
present fifteen-minute summaries of their papers, making possible a compact
event with time for productive discussion.

Please find below the full list of participants:

Boris Gasparov (Columbia University), "Farewell to the Enchanted Garden:
Pushkin, Nicholas' Russia, and Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmila."

Oleg Timofeev (University of Iowa), "The Complex Topography of Ruslan and
Ludmila: Italian Opera, Exotic Neighbors, and Glinka's Search for "Russian
Music"

Kevin Platt (University of Pennsylvania), "Ivan the Terrible in Opera,
Arts, and
Politics"

David MacFadyen (UCLA), "'It Flooded the Room and Burst Through the Doors':
Some
Aspects of Music in Twentieth-Century Russian Storytelling."

Caryl Emerson (Princeton), "Shostakovich and the Russian Literary Tradition:
Gogol-Dostoevsky"

Simon Morrison (Princeton), "Abram Room and Prokofiev's Unknown Film Score
Tonya"

Andrew Baruch Wachtel (Northwestern University), "Improving a Bad Text:
Schnitke's Life with an Idiot"

For details or questions concerning the event, please contact Ilya Vinitsky
(ivinitsk at sas.upenn.edu) or Kevin Platt (kmfplatt at sas.upenn.edu).

Sincerely,

Ilya Vinitsky
Assistant Professor
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of Pennsylvania
133 Bennett Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104

phone: 215-746-0174
email: ivinitsk at sas.upenn.edu

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