Study Group for Russian and Eastern European Music (REEM)
Annual Conference 2011
Music Theory and Criticism
Denis Arnold Hall, Music Faculty, St. Aldate’s, Oxford
Saturday 15 October 2011
9.30-10.00 COFFEE
10.00-11.00 SESSION 1 Chair: Ivana Medic (Open University and University of Manchester)
Marina Lupishko (Le Havre, France): ‘Yakov Druskin (1902-80) as a Musicologist: The Narratological Aspect’
Ildar Khannanov (Peabody Conservatory, Johns Hopkins University): ‘Yuri Kholopov’s Theoretical Position between the Scylla and Charybdis of Soviet Politics, or How Music Theory Can Shape the Political Discourse’
11.00-11.30 COFFEE BREAK
11.30-13.30 SESSION 2 Chair: Philip Bullock (Wadham College, Oxford)
Rebecca Mitchell (Miami University): ‘Prophets of Orpheus: Music Critics in late Imperial Russia, 1905-1917’
Janna Kniazeva (Russian Institute for Art History, St Petersburg): ‘Der Musikhistoriker Jacques Handschin als petersburger Konzertkritiker: zur Geschichte eines Weltatlas’
Anne Marie Weaver (Eastman School of Music, Rochester): ‘César Cui: Russian Music Critic, Cosmopolitan Song Composer’
Patrick Zuk (Durham University): ‘Vyacheslav Karatïgin and the Development of Russian Musical Modernism’
13.30-14.30 LUNCH BREAK
14.30-15.30 KEYNOTE SPEECH Chair: John Tyrrell (University of Cardiff)
David Fanning (University of Manchester) and Michelle Assay (Sorbonne): 'Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the Twain Shall Meet'
15.30-16.00 TEA BREAK
16.00-17.00 SESSION 3 Chair: Katerina Levidou (University of Lausanne)
Makoto Nakamura (St Antony’s College, Oxford): ‘Publication Postponed: The Theoretical Background of Leoš Janácek’s Ethnographic Activities in the 1920s’
Ivana Medic (University of Manchester): ‘“Our Generation’s Responsibility for the Fate of The World”: Alfred Schnittke’s Writings on Luciano Berio’
18.00 CONCERT: Russian and Serbian Songs (Petar Konjović; Miloje Milojević; Modest Mussorgsky; Sergei Rachmaninoff). Verica Grmusa (soprano; Goldsmiths College, London) and Dada Toskic (piano)
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Convenors: Katerina Levidou and Philip Bullock
Background: In the last twenty years or so, scholarly interest in Russian music has undergone a renaissance in the UK. There are now around ten music departments where either Russian or East European music (or both) is offered as a staff specialism, with the result that there has been a rapid expansion of postgraduate interest. There are also growing links between musicologists and Slavists working in Russian departments, and between British-based scholars and Russians. The idea for a BASEES Study Group for Russian and East European Music (REEM) has been raised by several scholars from different institutions in the last year, and it seems that, with this recent upsurge of interest, the formation of this Group is timely, even overdue. The group is affiliated to the University of Oxford Music Faculty.
Purpose: The Study Group will seek to foster collaborative research and exchange of ideas within this growing community. By extending the research profile of the Study Group to include East European music, we will gain from the expertise of several well-established British academics with excellent connections with Polish, Hungarian and Czech scholars. We also hope to develop contacts with colleagues in Russia and Eastern Europe, wherever possible enabling scholars to travel to the UK. There is no musicological forum that would facilitate this as an ongoing project, and all such exchanges are currently made on an ad hoc basis. BASEES offers a unique opportunity to organise this in a more structured way, and should therefore create much closer links between scholarly communities here and abroad.
The Study Group has a number of key aims:
- To foster research links between scholars working in music and Russian departments in the UK. To this end, the convenors feel it important that the organization of the Study Group’s activities is the product of collaboration between Slavists and musicologists;
- To provide a forum for academics and postgraduates to exchange ideas and meet one another at regular conferences, with the possibility of resulting publications;
- To explore the many connections between Russian and East European musicological issues and develop contacts between scholars working in these areas;
- To support and encourage postgraduate research into Russian and East European Music;
- To bring musicologists into the wider community of BASEES, something which should greatly benefit both Slavists interested in musical issues, and musicologists who need a less narrowly 'musical' forum to discuss broader cultural and aesthetic issues;
- To establish and maintain an email list, in order to inform members of the Study Group about forthcoming events of interest;
- To raise the presence of REEM at meetings of the Royal Musical Association.
The inaugural conference, EASTERN EUROPEAN MUSICAL RELATIONS, took place in the Department of Music, University of Bristol, on Saturday 24 June 2006. The 2006 programme can be downloaded here.
THE ROYAL MUSICAL ASSOCIATION and BASEES RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN MUSIC STUDY GROUP held a POSTGRADUATE STUDY DAY on Russian and East European Music at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama on 10 February 2007
REEM held a conference on MUSIC IN RUSSIA AND EASTERN EUROPE AFTER ‘THE THAW’ at the Department of Music, Victoria Rooms, University of Bristol, on Friday 29 June 2007. The programme can be seen here.
In 2008 REEM held a conference on RUSSIA'S MUSICAL REVOLUTIONARIES, in association with the Oxford University Faculty of Music and the Bate Collection, which took place at the Denis Arnold Hall in Oxford on 1 October and was organised by Rosamund Bartlett and Pauline Fairclough. The programme can be seen here.
REEM held a conference on MUSICAL NATIONALISM AND MODERNISM IN RUSSIA AND EASTERN EUROPE on 17 October 2009, which was hosted by the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, and was organised by Katerina Levidou and Rosamund Bartlett. The programme can be seen here.
REEM's annual conference 2010, CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN MUSIC: MUSICAL CROSSROADS?, took place at the Oxford University Faculty of Music on 26 June 2010. The programme can be seen here.
REEM's annual conference 2011, on Music Theory and Criticism, was held at Denis Arnold Hall, Music Faculty, St. Aldate’s, Oxford on Saturday 15 October 2011. The programme can be found here, and abstracts and biographies can also be downloaded.
Convenors:
Ivana Medic, Philip Bullock and Katerina Levidou.
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