Purcell, Handel, Haydn, and Mendelssohn: Anniversary Reflections
New College, Oxford
27-29 March 2009
New College, Oxford
27-29 March 2009
Abstracts
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Saturday 28 March
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[Holywell Music Room]
8.45 Session 8: Haydn Chair: Susan Wollenberg 8.45 Chiara Bertoglio (University of Birmingham): Hidden verses in Haydn's 'Seven last words' and in Mozart's concertos 9.15 Wolfgang Fuhrmann (Humboldt University, Berlin): Haydn the Naïve 10.45 Jen-yen Chen (National Taiwan University): The social dimensions of Haydn's late oratorios: aristocratic patronage, bourgeois reception, and the sociological theory of Norbert Ellis |
[Lecture Room 6]
8.45 Session 9: Purcell Chair: Rebecca Herissone 8.45 Martin Adams (Trinity College, Dublin): 'That what took least, was really best'; tension between the private and public aspects of Purcell's compositional thought 9.15 Alan Howard (University of Manchester): Attitudes towards formal counterpoint in Purcell and Mendelssohn 10.45 Vanessa Rogers (Wabash College, Indiana) 'Britons Strike Home': Ballad Opera and the Eighteenth-Century Purcell Revival, 1728-1760 |
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10.30 - Coffee, Junior Common Room, New College
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[Holywell Music Room]
11.00 Session 10: Andrew Pinnock and Will Lingard (University of Southampton): Chair: Michael Burden Seeking the bubble: the economic basis of musical reputation, and the role of the anniversary as value inflator |
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12.05 - Pre-lunch reception, followed by view of
Hallelujah! The British Choral Tradition at The Bodleian Library |
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1.00 - Lunch, Hall, New College
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[Holywell Music Room]
2.00 Session 11: Staging and picture making Chair: Thomas Schmidt-Beste 2.00 Caryl Clark (University of Toronto): Haydn's others; staging ethnicities 2.30 Pieter van der Merwe (National Maritime Museum): Macready's Acis and Galatea revisited 3.00 Monika Hennemann (University of Birmingham): Oratorio and drama; operatic staging of oratorios in the romantic era |
[Lecture Room 6]
2.00 Session 12: Publishing and sources Chair: Alan Howard 2.00 Rebecca Herissone (University of Manchester): Purcell as self-publisher; or why Dioclesian 'found so small encouragement in print' 2.30 Alon Schab (Trinity College, Dublin): Revisiting the known and unknown misprints in Dioclesian 3.00 Joseph Darby (Keene State College): Subscription proposals and the early marketing of Handel's Twelve Grand Concertos |
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3.30 - Tea, Junior Common Room, New College
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[Holywell Music Room]
4.00 Session 13: Handel and Haydn Chair: Michael Burden 4.00 Patricia Debly (Brock University): From Handel to Haydn: Magic, madness, and love in Orlando 4.30 Matthew Badham (University of York): Handel, Haydn and the pictorial imagination: a comparison of L'allegro, il peneroso ed il moderato and Die Jahreszeiten |
[Lecture Room 6]
4.00 Session 14: Life after Purcell Chair: Andrew Pinnock 4.00 Thomas Irvine (University of Southampton): Fairy Queen to 'replace' Mendelssohn's incidental music to the Midsummer Night's Dream in the 1930s 4.30 Amanda Eubanks Winkler (University of Syracuse): 'In Harmony, Celestial Harmony, All Magick Charms are found': Musical Politics in The British Enchanters |
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[Holywell Music Room]
5.30 Session 15: Roundtable on recorded history Recordings of Purcell, Handel, Haydn and Mendelssohn: a survey of the past, an assessment of the present, and speculation about the future Chair: Christopher Hogwood Participants: David Vickers (organiser), Roger Savage, Kenneth Hamilton, Richard Wigmore |
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7.30 - Reception, Founder's Library, New College
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8.00 - Conference Dinner, Hall, New College
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