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Geoffrey Chew
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International Conference
A Tale of Three Cities
Janacek's Brno Between Vienna and Prague
Senate House, University of London, 22-24 October 1999
Programme
Friday 22 October
8.30-10.00 Registration and coffee
9.30 Welcome and Introduction to Conference: Prof. Robert Pynsent
(SSEES/UCL); Prof. Tim Carter (Royal Holloway)
Session 1: Janacek and Language
9.55 Albert van der Schoot (University of Amsterdam): Creating a Musical
Vernacular from Natural Sources
10.20 Paul Christiansen (University of California, Davis): At Sixes and
Sevens with Fourths and Fifths: A Linguistic Look at Janacek's Notebooks
11.00 Coffee
Session 2: Janacek, Brno and Nationalism
11.30 Jarmila Gabrielova (Charles University, Prague): Janacek's and
Foerster's Glagolitic Masses: Their Historical and Liturgical Background
11.55 Allison Nowicki (Yale University): "The Small End of the Telescope":
Janacek, Chamber Music and Nationalism
12.20 Jarmila Prochazkova (Brno): Political Aspects of Janacek's
Activities and his Response to Social Events, 1891-1918
12.45 Discussion
1.00 Lunch break
Session 3: Janacek, Brno and Vienna
2.00 Joseph N. Rostinsky (Tokai University, Tokyo): Leos Janacek --
Emblematic Conundrum of Being Moravian
2.25 Melita Milin (Institute of Musicology, Belgrade): Dreams of Being
Accepted: Janacek's and Freud's Vienna
2.50 Paul Wingfield (Trinity College, Cambridge): Janacek's Uplna nauka o
harmonii in the Context of Contemporary Viennese Harmonic Theory
3.15 Julian Johnson (University of Sussex): Janacek, Mahler and the
Schoenberg School: Regional Voices and Imperial Aesthetics
3.40 Discussion
4.00 Tea
Session 4: Analysis and Hermeneutics
4.30 John K. Novak (Northern Illinois University): The Issues and Import
of Janacek's Key Preference
4.55 Arnold Whittall (King's College, London): Janacek and the String
Quartet in the 1920s: Aspects of Rhetoric and Allusion
5.30 Dinner break
7.30 Recital at St Giles-in-the-Fields, London WC2: Matthew Elton Thomas,
Songs by Leos Janacek, Vitezslav Novak, Otakar Ostrcil, Franz Schreker,
Alexander Zemlinsky and Richard Strauss
Saturday 23 October
Session 5: Janacek and Modernism(s)
9.30 Christopher Long (University of Texas at Austin): Architecture in
Brno from Historicism to Functionalism, 1880-1930
9.55 Thomas D. Svatos (University of California, Santa Barbara): Martinu
on Music and Culture: Some Thoughts in Relation to Janacek's Aesthetic
Background
10.20 Mikulas Bek (Charles University, Prague): Janacek contra Nejedly:
The Controversy about Modern Czech Music
10.45 Discussion
11.00 Coffee
Session 6: Naturalism(s) and the Alternatives
11.30 Robert Pynsent (SSEES ): The Brno Naturalist, Josef Merhaut
11.55 Jenifer Cushman (University of Minnesota Morris): Boehmisches
Volkslied / Narodni tance na Morave: Czech Nationalism in the Works of
Rilke and Janacek during the 1890s
12.20 Geoffrey Chew (Royal Holloway): How Threatened was Smetana's
Heritage?: Jugendstil and the Alternatives in Early Twentieth-Century
Czech Solo Song
12.45 Discussion
1.00 Lunch break
Session 7: Provincialism(s) and Metropolitanism(s)
2.00 Michael Beckerman (University of California, Santa Barbara): Small
Town Boys, City Air
2.25 Nigel Simeone (University of Wales, Bangor): Janacek and Klemperer
2.50 Erik Levi (Royal Holloway): Janacek Reception in Germany During the
Weimar Republic and the Third Reich
3.15 Nico Schuler (Michigan State University): Music and Musical Life of
the Germans in Brno, January 1920: A Case Study
3.35 Discussion
4.00 Tea
Session 8: Janacek and Orientalism
4.30 Jiri Fukac (Masaryk University, Brno): The East-West Polarization in
Brno Culture
4.55 Gerald Seaman (St. Antony's College, Oxford): Janacek's Indebtedness
to Russian Music
5.20 Arnold McMillin (SSEES): More Affection than Affinity: The Re-Reading
of Russian Literature in Janacek's Music
5.45 Mary Kalil (Princeton University): Speech and the Sparks of God in
Janacek's and Dostoevsky's House of the Dead
6.05 Discussion
6.20 Dinner break
7.30 Keynote Lecture
Roger Scruton: Schoenberg or Janacek? Two Kinds of Modernism
8.30 Reception and Launch of Janacek Studies, ed. Paul Wingfield
(Cambridge University Press, 1999)
Sunday 24 October
Session 9: Operas and librettos I
9.30 David Chirico (SSEES): Preissova and Janacek
9.55 Mark Audus (University of Nottingham): A Tale of Four Operas: Jenufa
Uncovered
10.20 Dimitra Stamogiannou (Darwin College, Cambridge): Jenufa, Kat'a and
Opera in Brno, Prague, Berlin and Vienna, c. 1918-1926
10.45 Alfred Thomas (Harvard University): Depoliticizing Preissova: J. B.
Foerster's Eva and L. Janacek's Jenufa
11.10 Discussion
11.25 Coffee
11.50 John Tyrrell (London): Janacek's Artistic Taste
12.15 Sir Charles Mackerras in interview with John Tyrrell
12.40 Round-table discussion
1.00 Lunch break
Session 10: Janacek and Feminism
2.00 Anne Jamison (Princeton University): Music, Maids and Milen(k)y:
Pragerkreis Readings of Czech Women Writers
2.25 Diane Paige (University of California at Santa Barbara): Janacek's
Brno and Czech Feminism
2.50 Ian Biddle (Newcastle University): Gender and the Search for Identity
in Janacek's "Kreutzer Sonata"
3.15 Discussion
3.30 Tea
Session 10: Operas and librettos II
4.00 Derek Katz (University of California at Santa Barbara): Don Juan in
Prague and Brno: Janacek and 20th-Century Czech Don Juans
4.25 Joanna Harris (Trinity College, Cambridge): Janacek and Berg as
Librettists
4.50 Karel Brusak (University of Cambridge): Janacek's Librettos
5.15 Round-table discussion and concluding remarks
6.00 Conference ends
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