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APRIL 23: HISTORICAL AND FOLK ROOTS |
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8:00-8:45: |
Registration |
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8:45-9:00: |
Welcome
Marlen Vavříková,
GVSU |
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9:00-10:30 |
Session 1
Chair: Marlen Vavříková,
GVSU |
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9:00-9:45 |
Eva Branda,
University of Toronto
The Conservatory of Europe
Music in the Jesuit Schools of Prague during the Seventeenth
and Early Eighteenth Centuries |
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9:45-10:30 |
Roger Buckton,
University of Canterbury (New Zealand)
The Migration of a Music Culture from Bohemia to New Zealand
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10:30-11:00 |
Break |
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11:00-12:00 |
First Keynote
Address
Bruno Nettl, University of Illinois (Emeritus)
Four Stories about Music in the Czech Lands: A Meditation
on Culture Contact |
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12:00-1:30 |
Czech Lunch,
with Music by GVSU Students |
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1:30-3:15 |
Session 2
Chair: Lisa Feurzeig, GVSU |
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1:30-2:30 |
Rudolf Pietsch,
Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Vienna
The So-Called “Bohemian” in Alpine Music
Observations on Musical Style in the Shellac Recordings
of Adolf Pokorny |
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2:30-3:15 |
Michael Cwach,
University of Canterbury (New Zealand)
Domažlická
dudácká muzika (Domažlice
Bagpipe Band)
- Members of a bagpipe band reflect upon Chodsko
and their billy-goat bagpipe |
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3:15-3:45 |
Break
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3:45-6:00 |
Session 3
Chair: Kurt Ellenberger, GVSU |
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3:45-4:30 |
Erika Supria
Honisch, University of Chicago
“Love the Brotherhood, Honor the King”
Catholic Music in Rudolfine Prague |
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4:30-5:15 |
George Stoffan,
Oakland University
But One Voice
Czech Composer Zbyněk
Matějů
and the Velvet Revolution
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5:15-6:00 |
Paul Christiansen,
University of Southern Maine
Musical Humor in the Songs of Karel Plíhal
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6:00-8:00 |
Dinner Break
(bus to ethnic restaurants in Grand Rapids) |
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8:00 |
Concert
GVSU Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Barry Martin, conductor
Vitezslav Cernoch, violin |
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SATURDAY, APRIL
24: THE CONCERT TRADITION |
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8:00-9:00 |
Socializing
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9:00-10:30 |
Session 4
Chair: Michael Beckerman, New York University
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9:00-9:45 |
Judith A. Mabary,
University of Missouri
Where Music and Theatre Unite
Fibich’s Reinvention of the Staged Melodrama in the Epic
of Hippodamie |
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9:45-10:30 |
Erik Entwistle,
Longy School of Music
Kaprálová’s Piano Works |
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10:30-11:00 |
Break |
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11:00-12:00 |
Second Keynote
Address
Michael Beckerman, New York University
Michna Up and Down |
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12:00-1:30 |
Czech Lunch,
Czech folk music featuring conference presenters |
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1:30-2:30 |
Lecture-Recital,
GVSU Faculty and Friends
Wenzel Müller
Setting the Theater on Fire |
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2:30-4:00 |
Session 5
Chair: John Schuster-Craig, GVSU |
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2:30-3:15 |
Brian Locke,
Western Illinois University
Musical and Dramatic Narrativity in Vítězslav
Novák’s ‘Sea-Cantata,’ Boure
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3:15-4:00 |
Lydia Hall,
Cleveland, Ohio
Finding Franz: A Granddaughter's Musical Journey from the
American Midwest to the Austro-Hungarian Empire
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4:00-4:30 |
Break |
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4:30-6:00 |
Session 6
Chair: Bill Ryan, GVSU |
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4:30-5:15 |
Judith Marie
Fiehler, Library of Congress
Truth Prevails
Berg and the Avant-Garde Movement in Prague during the Mid-1920s |
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5:15-6:00 |
Hubert Ho, Northeastern
University
Sbíhání, Sbližování,
Spolupráce:
An Investigation
of the KONVERGENCE Czech Composers Collective
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6:00-8:00 |
Dinner Break
(bus to restaurants in Holland) |
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8:00 |
Chamber Music
Concert
GVSU Faculty and Friends |
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SUNDAY, APRIL 25:
BRAVE NEW WORLD |
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8:00-9:00 |
Socializing
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9:00-11:00 |
Session 7
Chair: Brian Locke, Western Illinois University |
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9:00-9:30 |
Jesse Johnston,
Bowling Green State University
Folk Musical Instruments and the Brněnský
krůžek
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9:30-10:00 |
Albrecht Gaub,
A-R Editions
A Demurrer from the Eastern Neighbor
Vladimír Karbusický’s Campaign for the Inclusion of Czech
Music in the Historiography of Music
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10:00-11:00 |
Discussion
Directions and Next Steps in Czech/Slovak Music and Musicology
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11:00-12:00 |
Recital
Laurie Lashbrook (voice), University of Akron with Timothy
Cheek (piano), University of Michigan and Bohuslava Jelinkova
(dance) Erik Entwistle (solo piano), Longy School of Music
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12:00 |
Optional Excursion
to Saugatuck (lunch, beach walk, wine tasting, galleries,
pies, etc.)
Return by early evening |
