McKay Auditorium: afternoon

Keynote address

2:00pm

Peter Hill, University of Sheffield, UK

Nature into music: Messiaen and birdsong in the 1950s

 

Concurrent sessions: 3:00–5:30pm

McKay Auditorium

Messiaen, part I

3:00pm

David Kopp, Boston University School of Music, USA, lecture recital

Analyzing Messiaen's Later Piano Music: Petites esquisses d'oiseaux (1985)

4:00pm

Break

4:30pm

Samuel Ng, St Andrews Junior School, SGP, lecture recital

Préludes pour piano and the technique of Messiaen's harmonic language

Little Theater

Rationalizing performance, part II

3:10pm

Ralph van der Beek, Weber State University, USA, lecture recital roundtable with Roy Howat and Kathleen Solose

Analyzing and performing Chopin's nocturne in F-sharp major, op. 15, no. 2

4:00pm

Break

Asia and the Pacific

4:30pm

Inge van Rij, NZSM, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ, paper

Indians in Carthage? Aeneas in the Pacific?: Asian and Pacific influences in the writings and music of Berlioz

5:00pm

Damien Top, Centre International Albert-Roussel, FRA, paper

The Rousselian water

 

(Return to single session)

Little Theater

Asia and the Pacific (continued)

5:30pm

Caroline Potter, Kingston University, UK, paper

From East to West and Back Again: Contemporary East Asian Composers in Paris

6:00pm

Dinner

McKay Auditorium

Evening concert

7:30pm

Roy Howat, Royal Academy of Music
Wendy Hiscocks, Australia National University

• Claude Debussy
• En blanc et noir (1915)
• Gabriel Fauré
• Nocturnes nos. 1 & 9 (c. 1875 & 1910)
• Francis Poulenc

• Élégie (2 pianos, 1959, à la mémoire de Marie-Blanche Polignac)

• Intermission
• Maurice Ravel

• À la manière de Borodine; À la manière de Chabrier (1913)

• Gabriel Fauré
• Barcarolles nos. 7 & 5 (1907 & 1894)
• Claude Debussy
• Page d'album (1915); La plus que lente (1910)
• Emmanuel Chabrier
• 3 Valses romantiques (1880–3)

 

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17TH

McKay Auditorium: morning

Modern school of composition

9:30am

Marilyn Nonken, New York University, USA, lecture recital

Spectral Music: Tristan Murail's Territoires de l'Oubli: Analysis, Performance, and Perception

10:30am

Break

 

Concurrent sessions: 11:00am–12:00pm

McKay Auditorium

Fragmented continuity?

11:00am

Kathleen Solose, University of Saskatchewan, CAN, lecture recital

The elusive Études of Debussy's Livre II: exploring performance and listening strategies

Little Theater

Rationalizing performance, part III

11:00am

Eddy Chong, Nanyang Technological University—National Institute of Education, SGP, Paper

To close or not to close?: An intriguing moment in Ravel's "Menuet"

11:30am

Adam Ricci, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA, paper

Analysis and Performance of Two Late Fauré Songs

 

(Return to single session )

McKay Auditorium

Fragmented continuity? (continued)

12:00pm

Marianne Wheeldon, University of Texas at Austin, USA, paper

Silencing the clarion call: Debussy's Berceuse héroïque and "Pour les sonorités opposées"

12:30pm

Ruth Jacobson, Bemidji State University, USA, paper

Toward understanding tempo in the late songs of Gabriel Fauré—Can Brain Science help?

1:00pm

Lunch

 

McKay Auditorium: afternoon

Keynote address

2:00pm

Roy Howat, Royal Academy of Music, UK

Inside rather than under the composer’s skin: another tilt at being authentic

3:00pm

Break

Inherited traditions

3:30pm

David Korevaar, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, lecture recital

A link to the French pianistic tradition: the teaching of Paul Doguereau

4:30pm

Steven Young, Bridgewater State College, USA, lecture recital

Louis Vierne's Vingt-quatre pieces en style libre, Opus 31: The Manuscript Speaks

5:30pm

Dinner

 

McKay Auditorium

Evening concert

7:30pm

Peter Hill, University of Sheffield performing works by Messiaen

• La Colombe (from Préludes, 1928–9)
• Morceau de lecture á vue (1934)
• Le Tombeau de Paul Dukas (1935)
• Le Traquet stapazin (from Catalogue d'oiseaux)
• Cloches d'angoisse et larmes d'adieu (Préludes)
• Intermission

• Cantéyodjayâ

• Le Merle bleu (Catalogue d'oiseaux)
• La Chouette hulotte (Catalogue d'oiseaux)
• L'Alouette lulu (Catalogue d'oiseaux)

 

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH

Conference not in session: no events scheduled

 

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH

McKay Auditorium: morning

Messiaen, part II

9:00am

Christopher Dingle, UCE Birmingham Conservatoire, UK, paper

Recording Messiaen: a Romantic in a modernist world

Literary and visual approaches

9:30am

Bernarda Swart, School of Music, North-West University, ZAF, paper

Proust's memory concept in Dutilleux's Sonata for Oboe and Piano (1947)

10:00am

Jonathan Goldman, University of Victoria, CAN, paper

Pierre Boulez's Mémoriale (…explosante-fixe…): Harmonic schemas, thematic writing, perceptive predictions and ‹‹ unplugged electronics ›› in the later works

10:30am

Graeme Fullerton, RILM abstracts of Music Literature, New York, USA, paper

Viewing Ravel's La Valse as a Cubist Waltz

11:00am

Break

 

McKay Auditorium

Literary and visual approaches (continued)

11:30am

Marjorie R. Wharton, Luther College, USA; Philip Wharton, New York, USA; JoAnn Ottley, Brigham Young University-Hawaii, USA, lecture recital

Why are Three Analyses Necessary for Le Travail du peintre?

Closing remarks

12:30pm

Lesley Wright, University of Hawaii at Manoa

 

Aloha Center Ballroom

End of conference

1:00pm

Conference banquet

3:00pm

Close

 

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH

OPTIONAL DAY EXCURSION TO THE POLYNESIAN CULTURAL CENTER

Times and meeting location to be announced