Dear colleagues
Just a reminder that the deadline for CFP for Weinberg's Centenary
Conference is 14 October. Please find below the description of the
Conference and associated events.
Best wishes
Michelle Assay and David Fanning
*Mieczysław Weinberg: Between East and West*
*University of Manchester, Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, 24-27
January 2019*
*Call for Papers*
*Deadline: midnight (GMT), Sunday 14 October 2018*
Recent years have witnessed a dramatic rediscovery of the music of
Mieczysław Weinberg (1919–1996), the Polish-born composer who twice escaped
from Nazi invasions and finally settled in Moscow. His substantial output
includes some of the most powerful Holocaust-commemorative music ever
written, notably his Auschwitz-based opera, *The Passenger*, dubbed a
‘masterpiece’ by Shostakovich.
The four-day conference at the University of Manchester marks the beginning
of Weinberg’s centenary year. It brings together scholars and practitioners
from East and West, with the composer’s first daughter, Victoria Bishops,
as Guest of Honour. The conference is co-sponsored by the British Academy
and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute and dovetails with a cycle of his
seventeen string quartets, to be performed at intervals throughout the
event by the Quatuor Danel, artists-in-residence at the University.
Proposals are invited for papers (20 minutes) re-considering any aspect of
Weinberg’s life and work. Topics may include, but will not be restricted to:
- Weinberg’s multiple identities (Polish/Jewish/Soviet Russian/humanist)
- his reputation in his lifetime and afterwards, both in Russia and the
West
- personal and musical relationships with other composers and cultural
figures
- intersections between music, theatre and film
- recent developments in biographical, archival and analytical study.
Proposals are invited from specialists and non-specialists alike, and
should include a short abstract (c. 250 words) and biography (c. 100
words). They will be considered by the co-convenors, Professor David
Fanning (University of Manchester) and Dr Michelle Assay (Université de
Paris Sorbonne).
Please send by midnight (GMT) on 14 October 2018 to:
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The full conference programme will be announced by 1 November.
Delegates will be charged a modest registration fee, to be confirmed, which
will include tickets for all five Quatuor Danel concerts, as well as
associated workshop and concert performances
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*Dr Michelle Assay*
*Université Paris Sorbonne, *
*Hon. Research Fellow, University of Sheffield*
*RMA Flagship Conferences Coordinator*
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