Music on Stage: The fourth biennial international, interdisciplinary conference at Rose Bruford College, Sidcup, Kent
20th and 21st October 2012
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Keynote speaker, Saturday: Errollyn Wallen
Described as the ‘renaissance woman of contemporary British music’ composes across the classical/popular divide. She studied composition at London and Cambridge universities and has had commissions from ROH, WNO, Almeida Opera, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, the Schubert Ensemble, Leipzig Ballet and the BBC. Her most recent operatic work, “Yes!” (with libretto by Bonnie Greer) was premiered at the Linbury last November. She was awarded the MBE for services to music in 2007.
Guest Speaker on Sunday will be Professor Nicholas Baragwanath (Nottingham) who will speak on his latest research on the history of singing and vocal melody, featuring archive material that demonstrates forgotten techniques and practices.
Schedule:
Saturday October 20th
Keynote speech 10-11am.
Cost of conference: £125 – Early Bird registration before August 1st £100.
This event is kindly sponsored by The Royal Music Association, and RMA members tickets are £100, and RMA student members are only £80 (RMA members will get 20% discount on the published papers)
The conference is also kindly supported by Hotels Combined who are offering a 10% discount on all hotel bookings made through online hotel booking sites. You make your booking then contact Hotels Combined for the refund which is paid to you direct. http://www.hotelscombined.com/Conference_Support
Papers to be presented:
Prof. Paul Barker (Central School of Speech and Drama, London): The Silent Space – all music is theatre
Dr Ian Cook (University of Newcastle, Australia): The Tempo Indications of Mozart A Performer’s Perspective based on a scholarly discourse supported by historically informed performance practice
Prof. Bill Everett (University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance): Viewing China through the Lens of 1890s British Musical Theatre: The Case of San Toy
Ana Farinha (Serralves Fundation, Portugal): Paredes de Coura music scene
Prof. John Green (Columbia College, Chicago): “The Effects on Love and Friendship of Rehearsing the Creation of the Impossible and Mysterious Sound” The Hunchback Variations Opera in Chicago
Justin Grize (University of Sussex): Orpheus among the Animals: Beastly Presences on the Opera Stage
Dr. Karl Katschthaler (University of Debrecen): From Cage to Walshe: Music as theatre
David Kennerley (Worcester College, Oxford): Bodies, voices and the critics: appraisals of female professional singers on London’s stages, c. 1810-1850
Ben Macpherson (Independent Scholar): A, the suggestive; B, the direct; C, the altern: Towards a tripartite framework for understanding actor-musicianship performance
Helene Markstein (West Australian Academy of performing Arts): Examining the interaction between sound and movement that took place over staged projects when dancer/choreographers focused on the aural information within the scenography.
Prof. Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe (University of Lincoln): Werktreue versus Regietheater in recent productions of Wagner opera
Barry Mitchell (Rose Bruford College): Transitions and experimentation in the slow movement of Schubert’s Octet
John Nelson (University of Helsinki) Rimsky-Korsakov in a changing political climate - was the composer politically a liberal or radical?
Alejandro Postigo (Spain): Interculturally Adapting Copla
Dr Charlotte Purkis (University of Winchester): Anglo-American expressionism in Rubbra and Pilcher’s music-theatre collaboration The Searcher (1930).
Michael Reynolds (Rose Bruford College): From avant garde to establishment: evolution in the stage music of Claude Terrasse during the Belle Epoque
Dr Trevor Siemens (Rose Bruford College): Stolen Fire: a light on the invisible theatre of Luigi Nono’s Prometeo
Maia Sigua (Tbilisi State Conservatoire): The Cave by Steve Reich – a Minimalist’s Musical Theatre
Dr. Tanya Sirotina (Independent Scholar): Breaking with tradition: the opera Victory over the Sun
Dr Katherine Syer (University of Illinois): Thunder and Lightning: Wotan’s archaic roots
Dr. Konstantinos Thomaidis (Royal Holloway): ‘Musicianship Above All? New Perspectives on Training Towards Integrated Bel Canto Performance’
Alicia Vaquero (Ramon Llull University, Barcelona): Music on the TV stage
Boris Wong (Chinese University, Hong Kong): The “Two Orders of Time” in Sondheim’s Putting It Together
Lufan Xu (Chinese University of Hong Kong): “Es klang so alt, und war doch so neu”: The Ambivalence of Regieoper’s Practice
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