1^enovembre 2019

Music, Cinema, and Modernism: The Works and Heritage of Kurt Weill between Europe and America

22-24 May 2020, Torino
CFP Deadline: 16 February 2020
Location: Torino, Università degli Studi di Torino, Palazzo Nuovo
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Keynote Speakers:
• Nils Grosch (Universität Salzburg)
• Stephen Hinton (Stanford University)

The conference aims to address aspects of Kurt Weill’s works in relation to his contemporaries and his heritage to succeeding generations, both in the United States and in Europe.

The themes suggested here are not intended to be restrictive but, rather, to invite a wide range of reflections, and other topics are also welcome:

• The modernity of Kurt Weill: borrowings and assimilations among his contemporaries

• After 1950: the theoretical and aesthetic legacy of Kurt Weill after his death

• Kurt Weill’s german-american contemporaries: aesthetic, artistic, and compositional choices

• Marc Blitzstein as a translator and interpreter of the German Weill in the United States

• Love Life on Broadway: a new musical theater genre is born?

• Musicals, American opera, Radio Opera and so on: the ideas about musical theater by Kurt Weill

• The debates for and against modernism among German émigré composers to the United States before and after World War II

• Aesthetic and theoretical debates concerning film music between the 1920s and 1940s

• Film music as “modern music”: identity and perspectives

• Kurt Weill and Hollywood: New Music for the Cinema?

• Composer and arranger: new roles and new relationships

• Berlin, Broadway, and Hollywood: a comparison of their modes of organization and cultural production

The official languages of the conference are English and Italian. Papers selected at the conference will be published in a miscellaneous volume.
Papers are limited to twenty minutes in length, allowing time for questions and discussion. Please submit an abstract of n^o more than 500 words and one page of biography.

All proposals should be submitted by email to conferences -at- luigiboccherini.org.

For any additional information, please contact:

Dr. Massimiliano Sala
conferences -at- luigiboccherini.org

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