Heaven is Shy of Earth: Julian Anderson at 50
Friday 20 October 2017, 9.45am-6.15pm
Guildhall School of Music & Drama
Lecture Recital Room, Silk Street, London
www.bcu.ac.uk/julian-anderson-day
Free admittance; no ticket required
Jointly presented by the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, with kind support from the Music & Letters Trust
Convenors: Christopher Dingle (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire) & John Fallas (University of Leeds)
This one-day conference on the work of Julian Anderson provides a scholarly context for the BBC Symphony Orchestra's 'Total Immersion' day (Saturday 21 October) devoted to his orchestral, choral and chamber music. While Anderson's music, its contexts and inspirations are naturally the primary focus, the conference is intended to act as a catalyst for scholarly enquiry into the full range of his diverse activities, addressing not only Anderson's creative work but also his important contribution as a scholar and as a significant animating presence in British musical life, as well as the interrelations between the three.
The day features keynote contributions from Edward Venn (University of Leeds) on Anderson's Symphony and from Matthew Mendez (Yale University) on Anderson and the avant-garde, a number of further papers interspersed with solo performances and live or recorded music examples, and a concluding roundtable discussion.
10.00am Christopher Dingle (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire) in conversation with Julian Anderson
10.40am John Fallas (University of Leeds) - Anderson's blues; or, the figure concealed
11.00am PERFORMANCE:
Robert Reid Allan, piano (Guildhall School of Music & Drama) - Julian Anderson: Piano Etude No 2
11.15am Martin Suckling (University of York) - You say microtone, I say macrotone: Julian Anderson's expanded pitch space
11.45am BREAK
12.10pm KEYNOTE 1:
Edward Venn (University of Leeds) - Anderson's Symphony: the definite article?
1.00pm LUNCH (not provided)
2.00pm PERFORMANCE:
Ben Smith, piano (Guildhall School of Music & Drama) - Julian Anderson: Sensation
2.30pm Edward Nesbit (King's College London) - 'All across upland Transylvania': evocations of distance in Julian Anderson's Imagin'd Corners
3.00pm Stephen Goss (University of Surrey) - Proactive or reactive? The collaborative process between Julian Bream, Laura Snowden and Julian Anderson on Catalan Peasant with Guitar
[with practical illustrations from Laura Snowden, guitar]
3.30pm Caroline Rae (Cardiff University) - Aspects of colour and timbre in Julian Anderson's Incantesimi: exploring French connections
4.00pm BREAK
4.30pm KEYNOTE 2:
Matthew Mendez (Yale University) - Anderson's others: Julian Anderson and the avant-garde
5.30pm ROUNDTABLE:
Mark Bowden (Professor of Composition, Royal Holloway, University of London)
Carolin Widmann (violinist)
Geoffrey Webber (director, Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge)
Ismene Brown (formerly dance critic, Daily Telegraph & The Spectator; founder, The Arts Desk)
Peter Quantrill (writer & Gramophone reviewer)
6.20pm CLOSE & DISPERSAL
Programme committee:
Christopher Dingle (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire)
John Fallas (University of Leeds)
Julian Philips (Guildhall School of Music & Drama)
Caroline Rae (Cardiff University)
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