Word and Music Studies: Eighth International Conference
Time and Space in Words and Music
August 3-6, 2011
Santa Fe Sage Inn and Opera House, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Schedule
Wednesday, 3 August 2011
17:00 – 18:30 Conference Warming at the Santa Fe Sage Inn, “Sunrise Room”
20:30 Wozzeck (Berg) at the Santa Fe OperaThursday, 4 August 2011
Sessions at the Santa Fe Sage Inn, “Sunrise Room”
09:00 – 09:15 Registration
09:15 – 09:30 Opening Address: Walter Bernhart (Graz)
Voice in Words and Music
Chair: Walter Bernhart (Graz)
09:30 – 10:15 Albrecht Riethmüller (Berlin): “Homer’s ‘Doh!’: Voice Between Singsong and Speech”
10:15 – 11:00 Axel Englund (Stockholm/Stanford, CA): “Whose Heimkehr?: Readings and Singings of Heinrich Heine’s Personae in Post-War Germany”
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee
Voice in Words and Music
Chair: Lawrence Kramer (New York, NY)
11:30 – 12:15 David L. Mosley (Louisville, KY): “Listening to Kierkegaard’s Don Giovanni”
12:15 – 13:00 Diana A. Kupfer (Heidelberg): “Toneless Voices/Voiceless Tones: Voicing and De-Voicing Samuel Beckett’s Writings”
13:00 – 14:15 Lunch
Voice in Words and Music
Chair: Suzanne Lodato (Bloomington, IN)
14:15 – 15:00 Delia da Sousa Correa (Milton Keynes): “Voice and Vocation in the Novels of George Eliot”
15:00 – 15:45 Akemi Yoshida (Kanagawa): “Operatic and Narrative Voices in George Sand’s Consuelo (1843) and George Moore’s Evelyn Innes (1898)”
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee
Voice in Words and Music
Chair: Simon Williams (Santa Barbara, CA)
16:15 – 17:00 Birgitte Stougaard Pedersen (Aarhus): “Voice and Presence in Music and Literature: Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931)”
17:00 – 17:45 Emily Petermann (Konstanz): “Creating an Individual Voice: Jazz Rhythm and Timbre in Xam Wilson Cartiér’s Novels”
Word and Music Studies Working Papers
Chair: Gerold W. Gruber (Vienna)
17:45 – 18:15 Sarah Decombel (Ghent): “Musicalization in Music Criticism: an Italian Case Study”
20:30 Griselda (Vivaldi) at the Santa Fe Opera
Friday, 5 August 2011
Sessions at the Santa Fe Opera House, “Dapples Pavilion”
Voice in Words and Music
Chair: Nancy S. Leonard (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY)
09:00 – 09.45 Simon Williams (Santa Barbara, CA): “The Voice of Denied Departure: Così fan tutte”
09:45 – 10:30 Michael Halliwell (Sydney, NSW): “‘Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty’: Reflections on ‘Voice’ in the Operatic Adaptation of The Great Gatsby and Sophie’s Choice”
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee, Cantina
Voice in Words and Music
Chair: Nancy S. Leonard (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY)
11:00 – 11:45 Lawrence Kramer (New York, NY): “The Voice in/of Opera”
11:45 – 13:00 Lunch, Cantina
13:00 – 13:45 Backstage Tour, Santa Fe Opera Theater
Voice in Words and Music
Chair: David Mosley (Louisville, KY)
14:00 – 14:45 David Urrows (Hong Kong): “La Castrata and the Voices in My Head”
14:45 – 15:30 Laura Wahlfors (Helsinki): “Resonances and Dissonances: Listening to Waltraud Meier’s Envoicing of Isolde”
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee, Cantina
Surveying the Field
Chair: David Mosley (Louisville, KY)
16:00 – 16:45 Takayuki Nitta (Paris): “Open the Hermeneutic Windows!: Towards an Aesthetic of ‘Regietheater’ in Opera”
Recital at the Santa Fe Opera House, “Stieren Pavilion”
17:00 – 18:15 “Bones” from Homage to Georgia O’Keefe by Deborah Weagel
Deborah Weagel, piano – Jessie Fillerup, speaker
First performance of Crossing the Water by Lawrence Kramer
Suzanne Lodato, soprano – Michael Halliwell, baritone – Simon Williams, speaker – Walter Bernhart, piano
Optional Events at the Santa Fe Opera
18:30 Tailgate Picnic ($29 per person, includes full meal)
18:30 Preview Buffet ($54 per person, includes a full meal, wine, and a preview talk about The Last Savage)
For the Tailgate Picnic and Preview Buffet, make reservations online.
18:30 and 19:30 Prelude Talk (lecture on The Last Savage, free to ticket holders)
Reservations are not needed for the Prelude Talk, but early arrival is recommended.
20:30 The Last Savage (Menotti)
Saturday, 6 August 2011
Sessions at the Santa Fe Sage Inn, “Sunrise Room”
Voice in Words and Music
Chair: Delia da Sousa Correa (Milton Keynes)
09:00 – 09:45 Gerold W. Gruber (Vienna): “Voice and Voices in Oratorios”
09:45 – 10:30 Jessie Fillerup (Fredericksburg, VA): “Composing Voices and Ravel’s L’Heure espagnole”
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee
Word and Music Studies Working Papers
Chair: Delia da Sousa Correa (Milton Keynes)
11:00 – 11:30 Charity McAdams (Edinburgh): “Indefiniteness, Ethereality, and Unarticulated Meaning: Examining the Relationship between Breath and Music in Edgar Allan Poe’s Prose”
11:30 – 12:30 WMA General Assembly
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:30 Excursion
New Mexico Sampler Tour: A Genuine Taste of the Spanish and Pueblo Cultures of New Mexico leaving from the Santa Fe Sage Inn and including outdoor dinner at the Rancho de Chimayo