Actualités musicales du 2 septembre 2015

mercredi 2 septembre 2015

Seminar on Jacques Rancière and Music

17-20 mars 2016, Cambridge

American Comparative Literature Association
Harvard University, Cambridge MA
17-20 March 2016
CFP deadline 23 Sep 2015

I am writing to invite participation in a seminar proposal entitled “Divisions on a Ground: Rancière and Music,” for the annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association.

The ACLA has an unusual conference format. Panels (called “seminars” by the ACLA) comprise either 8 or 12 persons, and address a single topic over the course of two or three days, respectively. Normally four people present on any given day, and usually ample opportunity is given participants to respond to papers. Participation in the panel requires a three-day commitment in March (two days, if the panel is only 8 persons). (Membership in any given panel depends on acceptance by the panel organizer. Presentation at ACLA is limited to one panel a year.) Here is the conference website: https://www.acla.org/annual-meeting

Those interested in participating in the panel on Rancière should submit paper proposals via the ACLA website during the first three weeks of September (by September 23 at the latest). At the same time, I encourage them to contact me directly: murraydineen -at- uottawa.ca. At the end of September, if there are enough papers submitted to make a coherent whole, I shall put a panel together and propose it to the conference organizers. The panel will then be reviewed by the ACLA conference organizers and either accepted or rejected. (I have always referred to my participation in ACLA as peer reviewed.) If the Rancière panel is accepted by the ACLA, then it will meet at Harvard in March for three hours on three successive days (or as a smaller seminar for three hours on two days).

To express interest in joining the Rancière panel, please go to the master list of seminars at: https://www.acla.org/seminars and follow the instructions therein. The list contains all the potential seminars. You can use as search term either "Ranciere" or "music" to locate the appropriate seminar.

Murray Dineen
School of Music
University of Ottawa
murraydineen -at- uottawa.ca

Alain Altinoglu directeur musical du théâtre de la monnaie de Bruxelles

Alain Altinoglu. Photographie © Fred Toulet.

Le théâtre de la Monnaie a annoncé aujourd'hui la nomination d'Alain Altinoglu à la direction musicale de la maison d'opéra.

Son prédécesseur avait démissionné en décembre 2014, le poste de directeur musical du théâtre de la Monnaie à Bruxelles était resté vacant. Alain Altinoglu entre en fonction immédiatement.

Après avoir dirigé cet été Wagner à Bayreuth (le premier français depuis Boulez), Alain Altinoglu trouve un théâtre de la Monnaie en situation difficile après le départ de Kazushi Ono en 2008 et de multiplie confrontations jusqu'au départ de Ludovic Morlot, les annonces de restrictions budgétaires : moins de productions et suppression des spectacles de danse.

Amine Bouhafa prix France Musique - Sacem de la musique de film 2015

Amine Bouhafa, après un César, a remporté le 9e prix France Musique - Sacem de la musique de film, pour sa bande originale de Timbuktu, film réalisé par Abderrahmane Sissako.

La récompense comprend une commande de Radio France qui sera créée par l'Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France l'an prochain. Il recevra son prix vendredi 13 novembre à l'Auditorium de la Maison de la Radio, où l'Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France interprétera entre autres l'oeuvre de Marc Marder, lauréat l'an passé.

Amine Bouhafa commence à jouer du piano à l'âge de trois ans, avant de devenir l'un des plus jeunes étudiants du Conservatoire national de Tunisie. Il compose des musiques de film dès l'âge de 15 ans. Il intègre le Conservatoire de Paris (régional) tout en menant une carrière d'instrumentiste (pianiste, clarinettiste et chef d'orchestre).

Biennial Meeting of the American Bach Society

Call for Papers
7-10 avril 2016

University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN)
CFP Deadline: 1 Oct 2015

The American Bach Society invites paper proposals for its upcoming meeting, to be held at the University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN), April 7–10, 2016. The meeting's theme will be “J. S. Bach and the Confessional Landscape of His Time.”

During his lifetime, Johann Sebastian Bach came into contact with most of the religious currents in Germany. His time in Mühlhausen was overshadowed by tensions between Lutheran Orthodoxy and Pietism, in Köthen he served at a Calvinist court, and in Leipzig he was subject to a Catholic ruler. The program will explore the music of Bach and his contemporaries in relation to various religious and denominational currents in the early 18th century.

Paper proposals focusing on the conference topic will be given preference, but submissions on any aspect of musical culture in Bach's time will be considered.

Proposals (250 words) should be sent as an e-mail attachment by October 1, 2015, to the chair of the program committee: Markus Rathey (markus.rathey -at- yale.edu). The committee's decisions will be announced by the middle of November 2015.

See the ABS website, https://www.americanbachsociety.org, for full details.