National Commemoration at the Centenary of the Great War and the Armistice
Study days: Musical institutions in Paris and Manchester during the First World War (5 and 6 March 2018)
Opéra-Comique and the Paris Conservatoire
The Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris is organising two Study Days and concerts (5 and 6 March 2018) on the topic of musical institutions in Paris and Manchester during the First World War, in collaboration with the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) in Manchester, the Henry Watson Music Library and the Hallé Concerts Society, and in partnership with the Opéra-Comique.
The study days are part of a collaborative project that brings together students from Paris and Manchester, together with their teachers, social historians and musicologists, with the aim of investigating the part played by these institutions and the careers of musicians centred. The study days are focused on two main themes: theatrical and operatic life (5 March at the Opéra-Comique) and instrumental performance (6 March at the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMDP).
How did the overall mobilisation of more than eight million men, the war effort against Germany, the proximity of the fighting and the profound social changes affect, from 1914 to 1918, the theatrical/operatic economy, the life of performing artists, stylistic and aesthetic choices, the running of institutions and the behaviour of the public? How did different participants in theatrical and teaching institutions prepare for life after the war and envisage the musical future? While the RNCM in Manchester has undertaken the project Making Music in Manchester during World War I, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the UK and the Heritage Lottery Fund, the CNSMDP is publishing the Gazette des classes de composition du Conservatoire, which was compiled by Nadia and Lili Boulanger in 1915.
Among the themes outlined above, particular attention will be given to the following:
Professional life in wartime
o The impact of the war on the composers who joined up
o The musicians: changes due to the war in the musical profession and orchestras
o The role of women in music during the war
o The influence of the war on musicians’ careers
Teaching/ pedagogy
o The organisation of musical studies (composers, instrumentalists, singers, conductors)
o The impact of the war on the different disciplines taught at conservatoires
Programming and repertoire
o Concerts in homage and memory of composers and events
o Theatre and spectacle in wartime
o The promotion of French and British music; nationalism in music; political and aesthetic choices
o The place of Manchester and Paris in the musical life of their respective countries
Amateur music (on the fringes of institutions)
o Amateur organisations
o Theatre at the front
o The role of music: as entertainment, solace, escapism, etc.
Abstracts plus a short CV should be sent to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> no later than 15 October 2017.
Professor Barbara Kelly
Director of Research
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