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********************************************************** This conference takes place on Saturday 11 March, 2-6pm. Please notify [log in to unmask] if you would like to come. "Future Music and the Classical Past. Wagner and his Legacy" Location: Department of Music, University of Bristol: Victoria's Rooms Date: Saturday 11 March 2006, 2-6 pm. Organized by Bristol's Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition Conference speakers: Professor John Deathridge, Professor Simon Goldhill, Dr. Martin Ruehl, Professor Thomas Grey. ********************************************************** Further particulars: "Through the most intimate understanding of antiquity the German spirit has acquired the ability to imitate the purely human in all its original freedom, which it does, not by using classical forms to depict a particular subject, but by using the classical view of the world to produce the new and necessary form." Wagner, What is German? Wagner's music and writings engage with a tradition of thought which places antiquity at the heart of a programme of social and cultural regeneration. Nevertheless, his works effect a particular transformation of these intellectual currents with far-reaching consequences for music, aesthetic theory, cultural criticism, ideas of nation and revolutionary politics. The conference seeks to explore both Wagner's own renewal of the classical past and the problematic legacy he bequeathed to his successors. We are delighted to welcome the following speakers: · Prof. John Deathridge (Kings College London): "Wagner's Greeks - and Wieland's too" · Professor Simon Goldhill (Cambridge) will respond: "Wagner's Greeks" · Dr. Martin Ruehl (Cambridge): "Art and Revolution: Nietzsche contra Wagner on the Politics of the Dionysian" · Prof. Thomas Grey (Stanford): "Wagner, Offenbach, and Aristophanes: Classical Comedy, Modern Music, and Cultural Politics c. 1870" Register now at: http://www.bris.ac.uk/arts/birtha/centres/institute/wagner_registration.doc Further enquiries about the conference to: [log in to unmask] ---------------------- Dr E.J. Potter Postdoctoral Research Fellow Bristol Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition Tel. 0117 928 8680 [log in to unmask]