18-19 mai 2012, Oxford

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Hearing Landscape Critically :
Sense, Text, Ideology

Nowhere is the only unattainable elsewhere; people are always already somewhere. This conference – the first of three inter-continental meetings between 2012 and 2014 – is concerned with any and all ‘somewheres' that might be thought of as landscapes.

Whether telescoped from afar or lived up close, landscapes are tense and contested sites of being, doing and remembering, of disaster and delight. In them we hear sounds, enact performances, partake in noise, rush and solitude. Yet these embodied and affective encounters are always already mediated in complex and conflicting ways; institutional, inter-personal, and ideological dynamics render landscapes amenable to the agencies of power, knowledge and desire.

From vast expanses to private quarters, landscapes articulate multiple and overlapping scales: global, local, temporal, virtual, universal. Landscapes, moreover, are rarely static or stable; at the frontier and the fringe, in the warren and the den we find marginal, interstitial and oppositional spaces.

Like a landscape, this call for papers cannot help but mark out its terrain: while acknowledging the contribution of existing work on landscape, too many studies have been concerned with purely scopic analyses, leaving multi-sensory experience and the historical materiality of landscape under-theorised. This conference thus seeks to expand, even explode our critical frames of reference, and develop alternative strategies for engaging critically and creatively with the poetics and politics of landscape.

Papers related to this agenda – including but not limited to the topics listed below – are welcome.

Sites of power, Questions of structure, Performing landscapes, Mobilities, Political concerns, Philosophical concerns.

Keynote speakers :

Prof. Julian Johnson (RHUL), “Aural Fantasies: Music, Modernity and the Imaginary Landscape”;

Prof. David Matless (Nottingham) will speak on landscape and sonic geography.

How to send proposals:

All proposals should be emailed to criticallandscapes at gmail.com (size limit = 5MB) by 31 December 2011. Please include name, affiliation (if applicable), postal address, email address and AV requirements on a separate cover sheet.

Individual papers (20 minutes) - abstract of no more than 300 words. Panel sessions - describe individual papers and overarching theme in no more than 500 words.

Alternative formats – describe your proposal (i.e. performance, round table, film discussion, or whatever it may be) in no more than 500 words.

NB. Unfortunately, funding for travel will NOT be generally available for delegates. However, there may be some funds for student travel bursaries. If you would be interested in this, please indicate so on your cover sheet.

  18-20 mai 2012, Lucca / Pistoia

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Music and Propaganda in the short
twentieth Century

International Conference
Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca/Pistoia;
Association “Amici di Groppoli” of Pistoia;
in association with the University of Granada (I+D+I HAR2010-17968. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion de España)

18-20 May 2012
Pistoia (Italy), Palazzo dei Vescovi

Appel à contribution

Le Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini de Lucca / Pistoia https://www.luigiboccherini.org et l'Association « Amici di Groppoli » de Pistoia, en collaboration avec l'Université de Granada (I+D+I HAR2010-17968. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion de España), vous invite à envoyer des propositions de communication pour le colloque international Music and Propaganda in the Short Twentieth Century, qui se tiendra à Pistoia, au Palazzo dei Vescovi, du vendredì 18 au dimanche 20 May 2012.

Ce colloque souhaite mettre en lumière les différents volets du rapport qui s'instaure entre la musique et la propagande de régime en Europe tout au long du xxe siècle, avec une attention particulière pour l'Allemagne, l'Espagne, le Portugal et l'Italie. L'objectif de ce colloque est d'analyser les possibles croisements entre la musique et la sphère politique dans un contexte tant institutionnel que moins conventionnel.

Pourquoi la thématique musique et propagande ? La musique a été souvent exploitée par les régimes et les gouvernements, à cause de sa fonction évocative et de sa capacité à exprimer plusieurs niveaux de la pensée, souvent soumise à de multiples interprétations. La question centrale de ce colloque est comment la musique puisse véhiculer des idées de propagande. Beaucoup a déjà été écrit autour des relations entre la production musicale et la propagande dans la période de l'entre-deux-guerres. Pour cette raison est maintenant nécessaire de pousser cette exploration à l'époque qui a suivi la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Ouvert à toutes propositions de sujets innovants, le comité scientifique encourage plus particulièrement les études portant sur les aspects suivants :

• Musique et propagande au xxe siècle : aspects historiques, esthétiques, philosophiques, sociologiques
• Implications politiques et économiques dans la musique de propagande
• Musique et propagande après la Deuxième Guerre mondiale
• Propagande et institutions musicales
• La propagande dans la musique de film et dans les autres médias
• La musique, la propagande et les autres arts
• Popular music et jazz : nationalisme, idéologie, identité et divertissement
• Musicologie et propagande
  

Comité Scientifique : Federico Celestini (Universität Innsbruck), Roberto Illiano (Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca), Massimiliano Locanto (Università degli Studi di Salerno), Fulvia Morabito (Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca), Gemma Pérez Zalduondo (Universidad de Granada), Massimiliano Sala (Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Pistoia)

Keynot Speakers : María Isabel Cabrera García and Gemma Pérez Zalduondo (Universidad de Granada) ; Luca Sala (Université de Poitiers).

Langues officielles du colloque : italien et anglais.

Une sélection des travaux présentés constituera le volume des actes du colloque dans la série Speculum Musicae series (Brepols Publishers).

Chaque intervention ne devra pas dépasser 20 minutes et sera suivie de 10 minutes de discussion.

Les propositions de communication (500 mots) seront accompagnées d'une biographie de l'auteur (1 page) et seront soumises par courriel en pièce jointe à l'adresse suivant : operaomnia@luigiboccherini.org La date limite des propositions est fixée au mardi 31 janvier 2012. Chaque proposition comprendra le nom de l'auteur, ses coordonnées complètes (adresse postale, e-mail, téléphone) et l'institution de rattachement (si possible).

Le comité scientifique s'engage à répondre à partir du 15 février 2012. Le programme complet ainsi que les renseignements pour l'enregistrement au colloque, pour le voyage et pour la réservation des hôtels seront communiqués à partir du 1er mars 2012.

Pour tous renseignements complémentaires, contacter :

Dr Massimiliano Sala - President
Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini
via Giuseppe Verdi, 52
I-51100 Pistoia
operaomnia@luigiboccherini.org
https://www.luigiboccherini.org

Call for papers

The Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini of Lucca/Pistoia (https://www.luigiboccherini.org) and the Association “Amici di Groppoli” of Pistoia, in association with the University of Granada (I+D+I HAR2010-17968. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion de España), is pleased to invite submissions of proposals for the symposium "Music and Propaganda in the Short Twentieth Century", to be held in Pistoia, Palazzo dei Vescovi, from Friday 18 until Sunday 20 May 2012. This project aims to study the relationships between music and propaganda in twentieth-century Europe, devoting particular attention to Germany, the Iberian Peninsula and Italy. The conference will examine the points of intersection between music and the political sphere within both institutional and non-institutional contexts.

Why music and propaganda? Music has often been exploited by regimes and governments, thanks to its great evocative power, and it can be used to attribute and to ascribe multivalent meanings. Does music contain the traces of propaganda? That is the central question to be posed by this conference. Much has been written about the relationship between music and propaganda between the two world wars. What is now needed are explorations of this topic during the post-war period.

• The programme committee encourages submissions within the following areas, although other topics are also welcome:
• Twentieth-Century Music and Propaganda: Historical, Aesthetic, Philosophical and Sociological Aspects
• Political-Economical Implications behind Musical Propaganda
• Music and Propaganda after the World War II
• Propaganda and Musical Institutions
• Propaganda in music for screen and other media
• Music, Propaganda and Other Arts
• Popular music and Jazz: Nationalism, Ideology, Identity and Entertainment
• Musicology and Propaganda

The official languages of the conference will be English and Italian. Papers selected for presentation at the conference will be published in a miscellaneous volume for the Speculum Musicae series (Brepols Publishers).

Papers are limited to twenty minutes in length, allowing time for questions and discussion. Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words and one page of biography. All proposals should be emailed to operaomnia at luigiboccherini.org by no later than ***Tuesday 31 January 2012***. Please include with your proposal your name, contact details (postal address, e-mail and telephone number) and (if applicable) your affiliation.

The committee will make its final decisions on the abstracts by the 15th of February 2012, and contributors will be informed immediately thereafter. Further information about the programme, registration, travel and accommodation will be announced by the 1st of March 2012.

If you have any questions, please contact:

Dr Massimiliano Sala - President
Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini
via Giuseppe Verdi, 52
I-51100 Pistoia
operaomnia at luigiboccherini.org
https://www.luigiboccherini.org

18 mai 2012, Nerw York

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Music Finished and Unfinished

Music Finished and Unfinished: A Symposium in Honor of Richard Kramer

Friday, May 18, 2012
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9206, 365 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10016.

For detailed symposium program and abstracts: https://musicfinishedandunfinished.blogspot.com/

9:00 Coffee, welcoming remarks

9:30-10:15 Kristina Muxfeldt (Indiana University) "Some Consequences of Figaro"

10:15-11:00 Lewis Lockwood (Harvard University) "Transformation within the Frame: Beethoven's Revision of the First Movement of the Cello Sonata in A Major, Op. 69"

11:00 coffee

11:15-12:00 Scott Burnham (Princeton University) "Thresholds Between, Worlds Apart: On the Adagio of Schubert's String Quintet"

12:00-12:45 Blake Howe (Louisiana State University) "Schubert at the 'Final Barrier'"

12:45-2:00 lunch

2:00-2:45 Leo Treitler (CUNY Graduate Center) "Reflections on Our Mimetic Heritage from Plato to Louis Vuitton"

2:45-3:30 Annette Richards (Cornell University) "Making Music History: Portraits, Anecdotes and C. P. E. Bach"

3:30 coffee

3:45-5:45 PAPERS AND PANEL: "Music Finished and Unfinished"

Scott Burnham, moderator

SHORT PAPERS:

Robert Marshall (Brandeis University) "Killing--and Burying--Sebastian"

Janet Schmalfeldt (Tufts University) "The Performer asks: 'Who am I'?"

James Webster (Cornell University) "The Search for the Ineffable"

DISCUSSANTS: Lewis Lockwood, Annette Richards, Leo Treitler

5:45 Reception

vendredi 18 mai 2012

Yun-Yang Lee gagne le 1^er Prix du 14^e Concours International de Piano IDF

Le jury du 14^e Concours International de Piano d'Île-de-France, qui s'est déroulé à (Maisons-Laffitte du 6 au 14 mai 2012, placé sous la présidence de Karoly Mocsari, a attribué le Premier Prix dans la catégorie diplôme de concert à Monsieur Yun-Yang Lee.

Cette manifestation dont Anne Queffélec est la Présidente d'honneur, a accueilli cette année 190 pianistes de 26 nationalités différentes, huit membres du jury s'y sont succédés (France, USA, Japon, Hongrie).

Ce concours a été créé en 1999 par Christine Girard, sa Présidente-fondatrice, au sein de l'association Opus Yvelines.

Diplôme de concert

1^er Prix et Prix Spécial Karoly Mocsari* :Yun-Yang Lee (Taïwan, 29 ans) ;

2^e Prix : Natalia Kazaryan (USA, 25 ans) ;

3^e Prix :Mami Shindo (Japon, 28 ans) ;

Prix Spécial Philomuses* : Selim MazariI (France, 19 ans).

Finalistes : Natalia Kazaryan (USA), Polina Bogdanova (Russie), Selim MazariI (France), Mami Shindo (Japon), Akiko Okada (Japon), Erina Fuse (Japon), Yun Yang Lee (Taïwan), Erika Kobayashi (Japon)

Jury : Karoly Mocsari (Président du jury –Hongrie), Elizabeth Askren (USA), Haruhi Hata (Japon), Chantal Stigliani (France) et Nicolas Stavy (France).

Excellence

1^er Prix à l'unanimité : Félix Aedanaz-GonzalesS (Espagne, 23 ans) ;

2^e Prix :Yukie Horibe (Japon, 25 ans) ;

3^e Prix : Romain Vaille (France, 20 ans) ;

Prix Spécial Crumb : Paul Vacellier (France, 17 ans)

Prix Spécial Jeune Talent : Kim Bernard (France, 13 ans)

supérieur

1^er Prix : Ayumi Takezoa (Japon, 32 ans)

2^e Prix : Louise Cournarie (France, 21 ans)

3^e prix : Orphée Triantafillidis (Belgique, 14 ans)

Prix Spécial Schönberg : Eve-Melody Salom (France, 16 ans)

Adulte grand amateur

1^er prix : Deirbhile Brennan (Irlande, 42 ans)

2^e Prix : Thierry Goldwasser (France, 36 ans)

3^e Prix : Hirokazu Nagakusa (Japon, 29 ans)

Prix Spécial Musicalité : Sylvain Bottineau (France, 42 ans)

Prix Spécial Musicalité : Yannick Weiler (France, 29 ans)

Jury Excellence, Supérieur et Grand Adulte Amateur: François Kerdoncuff (Président du jury - France), Isabelle Lafitte (France), Anne Bertin-Hugault (France), Karoly MOCSARI (Hongrie).