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*British-Russian Crossroads: Exchanges of Words and Music*
*15 February 2020*
*Venue: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Memorial Museum-Apartment (Saint
Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music), Zagorodniy Prospekt, 28,
Sankt-Peterburg, Russia, 191002.*
*Part of the Russia-UK Year of Music project: *
*'**A Voice between Nations: forming lasting bilateral Russia-UK
collaborative partnerships through word and music' (14 February - 16
February 2020)*
*Conference languages will be English and Russian with simultaneous
translation.*
Held within Russia-UK Year of Music, this conference celebrates the
longstanding fascination the two countries have for each other's cultures
through word and music by rediscovering the intersection of their cultures
and identities. It takes place as part of a festival of art song that
focuses on the distinct nineteenth-century Russian-British synthesis of
Saint Petersburg's cosmopolitanism and London's liberalism which
crystallised in the unique sound world of Rimsky-Korsakov's and the 'Mighty
Handful's' romances, and the legacy that this set for on-going
intercultural exchange through words and music.
Bringing together performers, musicologists, composers, and cultural
historians - and building a community across national boundaries - the
conference seeks to encourage an interdisciplinary dialogue that looks at
topics relating to the intersection of Russian and British culture through
words and music both specifically through art song, as well as in a wider
sense, including:
- Russian songs, opera and musicals set to British texts, either in
the vernacular or in translation
- British songs, opera and musicals set to Russian texts, either in
the vernacular or in translation
- Formation of performer identities, practices and audience reception
in the engagement with Russian and/or British art song internationally
- Words and music through the artistry of Russian-British performers
and Russian-British composers
- Performance and reception of Russian art song, opera and musicals in
Britain
- Performance and reception of British art song, opera and musicals in
Russia
- Representation of Russian music or music-making in British
literature or film
- Representation of British music or music-making in Russian
literature or film
- Historic and current Russian-British collaborations in performance,
and the composition of song, opera and musicals.
- Intersection of Russian-British artistic synthesis of words and
music with other countries, cultures or languages
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*Keynote speakers and panels:*
Professor Philip Ross Bullock, University of Oxford
Olga Manulkina, Saint Petersburg State University
Professor Liudmila Kovnatskaya, Saint Petersburg Conservatory, & Russian
Institute of Fine Arts History in Saintt Petersburg
Special sessions will be dedicated to:
- Performer perspectives session and panel discussion with Professor
Iain Burnside (Guildhall School of Music & Drama) and soloists from the
Mariinsky Opera
- Contemporary composition perspective session with Russian composers
in conversation with Professor Philip Grange (University of Manchester)
As part of the event participants are cordially invited to:
- Concert of Russian-British art song by advanced students of the
Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and the State Saint Petersburg
Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory at the Theatre Museum (15th February 2020)
- Concert in Sheremetev Palace by singers from the Mariinsky Opera
accompanied by Iain Burnside and Maria Razumovskaya (16th February 2020)
Plans are being made to publish selected papers in an edited volume of
proceedings.
Please submit abstracts of 250 words for 20 minute papers or 30 minute
performance lecture-recitals to *[log in to unmask]
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Please direct queries regarding logistics and travel to/in Russia to *[log in to unmask]
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*Conference committee:*
Dr Lidia Ader, Russian State Rimsky-Korsakov Museum, Saint Petersburg
Dr Paul Archbold, School of Advanced Studies, University of London
Dr Maria Razumovskaya, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London
*Supported by:*
British Embassy in Moscow
State Rimsky-Korsakov Museum, Saint Petersburg
Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London
Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Studies
Open World Research Initiative, Cross Language Dynamics (AHRC)
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