| FRIDAY, APRIL 23: HISTORICAL AND FOLK ROOTS |
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Registration |
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Welcome
Marlen Vav?íková, GVSU |
| 9:00-10:30 |
Session 1
Chair: Marlen Vav?íková, GVSU |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 2:30-3:15 |
Michael Cwach, University of Canterbury (New Zealand)
Domažlická dudácká muzika (Domažlice Bagpipe Band) - Members of a bagpipe band reflect upon Chodskoand 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 |
| 3:45-4:30 |
Erika Supria Honisch, University of Chicago
“Love the Brotherhood, Honor the King”
Catholic Music in Rudolfine Prague |
| 4:30-5:15 |
George Stoffan, Oakland University
But One Voice
Czech Composer Zbyn?k Mat?j? and the Velvet Revolution |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 Vít?zslav 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 Brn?nský kr?žek |
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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 |
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