From Matthew Spring, Reader in Music, Bath Spa University
The Loder Family of Bath: Music and Culture in Provincial Britain in the
long nineteenth century
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The programme has been slightly revised:
*Timetable for Loder Study Day 16 October 2015, Holburne Museum Bath*
9.00-9.50 Registration and Coffee.
9.50-10.00 Welcome from Jennifer Scott (Director, the Holburne Museum)
10.00-11.15. Session 1: Context (3 papers plus 15 minutes questions)
Matthew Spring to chair:
Paul Cooper: John Charles White and the pirating of ‘Captain
Wyke’
Bill Tuck: From Almacks Ballroom to the Powick Asylum: the
spread of quadrille mania throughout England in the long 19th Century
Amina Wright: Early nineteenth-century images of British
musical life from collections at the Holburne Museum
11.15-12.00 Keynote address with questions Stephen Banfield (Emeritus
Professor): Earning a musical living in provincial England in the age of
the general practitioner
*12.00-1.00 Lunch*
1.00-1.40 Lunchtime recital. Charles Wiffen (piano) and Bath Spa Students
perform music by members of the Loder family
1.45-3.00 Session 2: The Loders of Bath (3 papers plus 15 minutes for
questions) Andrew Clarke to chair:
Carole Hooper: Two Ladies at the piano
Peter Horton: Samuel Sebastian Wesley, the Loders, Bath and
Bristol
Margaret Christopoulos: Ann Matilda Loder, an analysis of
barriers and enablers affecting the careers of female musicians in the
early 19th century
3.00-3.25 Coffee/Tea
3.25-4.40 Session 3: opera (3 papers plus 15 minutes for questions) Charles
Wiffen to chair:
Mark Morris: Meldodrama vs. Opera: William Moncrieff’s
play *Giselle, or
The phantom Night Dancers *and Edward Loder’s opera *The Night
Dancers*.’
Christopher Redwood: The reception of Loder’s Operas
Robert Beale: E J Loder’s Manchester alliance with Charles
Hallé and the genesis of *Raymond and Agnes *
4.40-5.25 Professor Paul Rodmell Keynote address with questions: Revisiting
Edward Loder – The Operas Reconsidered
5.25-5.30 Closing thanks from Dr Charles Wiffen
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