Dear colleagues,
There is still time to submit an abstract to the Saint-Saëns Across Borders conference at the RNCM, Manchester in February 2022. Don’t miss the deadline!
Best wishes,
Barbara
Saint-Saëns Across Borders - * REVISED DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 1 October 2021 *
Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK
3-5 February 2022
Collaborators
Société Camille Saint-Saëns (Paris)
British Library
BBC Philharmonic
Royal Philharmonic Society
Cardiff University
We acknowledge the generous support of Music and Letters Trust.
Programme Committee
Barbara Kelly (RNCM)
Denis Herlin (IReMus, RNCM)
Clair Rowden (Cardiff University)
Marie-Gabrielle Soret (BnF)
Jann Pasler (UCSD)
William Gibbons (Texas Christian University)
Keynote: Annegret Fauser, ‘Transnational Saint-Saëns: Crossing Borders Musically’
To mark the centenary of the death of Camille Saint-Saëns, the Royal Northern College of Music presents an international conference on Saint-Saëns, his life and his works outside of France and in transnational contexts.
Topics may include:
Saint-Saëns in Britain
His relations with musicians and artists
His association with aristocracy, British society and institutions
His British premières, recordings and the reception of his music
Saint-Saëns’s foreign tours (eg. within Europe and to the USA)
Saint-Saëns and the Colonial World
Saint-Saëns beyond the borders of the concert hall, eg. film, television, video games
Saint-Saëns across disciplinary borders
The Programme Committee welcomes proposals for paper presentations (20 minutes), lecture-recitals (30 minutes), panel discussions (60 minutes). All presentations will be followed by 10 minutes for questions, apart from panel discussions which will be followed by 30 minutes of questions and answers. Poster presentations are also welcome.
The conference will include two orchestral concerts:
Thursday 3 February 2022: Symphony no. 3 (‘Organ Symphony’), RNCM Symphony Orchestra, RNCM Concert Hall, Conductor tbc
Saturday 5 February 2022: BBC Philharmonic, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester (programme tbc).
Abstracts (in English or French) of no more than 300 words for individual papers, lecture recitals and posters, and 600 words for panel discussions should be submitted to Barbara Kelly [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> by Friday 1 October 2021.
Professor Barbara Kelly
Director of Research
Professor of Musicology
Royal Northern College of Music
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Manchester
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President of the Royal Musical Association
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