Registration is now open for Unmasking Max: Peter Maxwell Davies Study Day, Cardiff University, School of Music, Saturday 25 April 2020
Programme:
9.00 Arrival/registration (refreshments available)
9.25 Welcome and opening remarks
9.30 Session 1
* Rodney Lister (Boston University): ‘That was Now, This is Then’
* Alexander Kolassa (Open University): ‘“A crazy clutter of the mediaeval, medical mind”: Peter Maxwell Davies in Ken Russell’s The Devils’
10.30 Break / refreshments
11.00 Session 2
* Upa Mesbahian (King’s College London): ‘The Lighthouse: A Tale of Collective Madness’
* Richard McGregor (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland): ‘Taking The No. 11 Bus to the Resurrection’
12.00 Lunch and book launch of The Music of Peter Maxwell Davies (co-authored by Nicholas Jones and Richard McGregor): https://boydellandbrewer.com/the-music-of-peter-maxwell-davies-hb.html
1.00 Paper / lunchtime concert
* Nicholas Jones (Cardiff University): ‘Early Chamber Works’, featuring several world premieres of works dating from the late 1940s and early 1950s.
2.00 Keynote
* Christopher Austin (Royal Academy of Music): ‘Peter Maxwell Davies and The Twilight Zone’
3.15 Break / refreshments
3.45 Session 3
* Thomas Hyde (King’s College London/Oxford University): ‘Salford Fairgrounds and Five-legged sheep: Peter Maxwell Davies’s Construction of his Own Childhood and the Ambiguities of Mythmaking’
* Sylvia Junge: ‘Max’s Music for Children and Amateurs: A Personal View’
4.45 Roundtable discussion: ‘Remembering Max’
* Christopher Austin, Sally Groves, Sylvia Junge, Nicholas Jones (Chair)
5.30 Close
7.00 Evening concert, including a performance of Eight Songs for a Mad King, conducted by Joshua Ballance, soloist Barney Wolstenholme; introduced by Nicholas Jones and Richard McGregor
Registration, including tea/coffee, lunch and lunchtime concert, will cost £25 for the day. Please click on the following link to book your place: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/cardiffmusic/t-opvpja<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketsource.co.uk%2Fcardiffmusic%2Ft-opvpja&data=01%7C01%7CJonesN3%40cardiff.ac.uk%7C119739c57b864c98973308d794460d8c%7Cbdb74b3095684856bdbf06759778fcbc%7C1&sdata=I8rgQA3E1ggWj34XD6H%2BGTZp4KtJ3xXX1zv0Ylr9NhM%3D&reserved=0>
Following the study day, the School of Music is hosting an evening concert that includes a performance of Davies’s Eight Songs for a Mad King. Please note that the cost of a ticket for this concert is in addition to the study day registration fee and can be purchased here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/cardiffmusic/t-kmmgno<https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketsource.co.uk%2Fcardiffmusic%2Ft-kmmgno&data=01%7C01%7CJonesN3%40cardiff.ac.uk%7C119739c57b864c98973308d794460d8c%7Cbdb74b3095684856bdbf06759778fcbc%7C1&sdata=vkbJB5xZxVPXwIv6vdIGL%2BLGUfDgTsZdArd%2B2FVVoTE%3D&reserved=0>
Dr Nicholas Jones
Senior Lecturer
& Director of Recruitment and Admissions
School of Music
Cardiff University
31 Corbett Road
Cardiff, CF10 3EB
Tel: +44 (0)29 2087 4171
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/487564-nick-jones
Cardiff University is a member of the Russell Group of Universities
Dr Nicholas Jones
Uwch-ddarlithydd
& Cyfarwyddwr Recriwtio a Derbyn Myfyrwyr
Ysgol Cerddoriaeth
Prifysgol Caerdydd
31 Heol Corbett
Caerdydd, CF10 3EB
Ffôn: +44 (0)29 2087 4171
E-bost: [log in to unmask]
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/487564-nick-jones
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