Friday, April 20, 2007

Scriptists, Beware!

On April 28 UC - Berkeley is hosting a symposium called "Invention and Convention: The Limits of Text and Performance." These papers in musicology look rather interesting:

9:30 Opening Remarks; Bonnie Wade, Chair, Department of Music

9:40-11:00
Mary Hunter (Bowdoin College), "Mozart Opera Productions and History"

Richard Will (University of Viriginia), "Topoi in Performance"
coffee break

11:30-1:00
Gretchen Wheelock (Eastman School of Music), "Vocal Promiscuity in Don Giovanni"

Katherine Bergeron (Brown University), "The Monotone of Sarah Bernhardt: Performing Sincerity in Republican France"

2:30-4:00
Daniel Zager (Eastman School of Music), "'Venerable Relics': Sacred Music of Orlando di Lasso in Nineteenth-Century England"

Donald Burrows (Open University), "Faithfulness to the Text: Has Handel Composed an Aria in Ariodante?"

4:30-6:00
Mary Davidson (emerita, Indiana University), "The Quest for 'Improvement' in 19th-Century American Musical Periodicals"

Graydon Beeks (Pomona College), "Some Thoughts on the Composition of Attilio Ariosti's Cajo Marzio Coriolano"

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