October 27-30, 2011
at The University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa
For Conference Registration go to:
http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/UIConferences/ and scroll down to the Re-Creation link.
Conference Abstracts: click here
Conference Venue: Conference lectures and paper sessions take place at the Old Capitol Town Center (also known as University Capitol Centre [UCC]) at Washington and Clinton Streets. A parking ramp is adjacent to the Old Capitol Town Center with entrances on Clinton and Capitol Streets. Session rooms are 2520D UCC (Thursday afternoon and Sunday morning) and International Programs Commons, 1117 UCC (Friday and Saturday). For a conference map click here.
THURSDAY October 27
5:00 p.m. Public lecture by Wendy Heller (Princeton University) UCC 2520D.
“Orpheus and the Origins of Opera: Looking Back at Peri’s Euridice.” Sponsored by Opera Studies Forum.
8:00 pm. evening concert by the Center for New Music at the Old Capitol Senate Chamber. Includes vocal settings and responses to Sappho, Catullus, Plato, Anakreon and others by composers including Purcell, Wolf, Rorem, and Dallapiccola. For the complete program go to http://www.uiowa.edu/~cnm/46.111027.html. Free and open to the public.
Opening night reception at the Old Capitol.
Friday and Saturday academic paper sessions take place in the International Programs Commons, 1117 UCC, Old Capitol Center. The Sunday morning paper session takes place in the UCC seminar room 2520D. |
FRIDAY MORNING October 28
SESSION I
8:30-10:30 Musical Theater/Music in Theater
Robert Ketterer (Classics, University of Iowa), moderator
Evan MacCarthy (Harvard University): “Translating Oedipus Tyrannus: John Knowles Paine and America’s First Greek Tragedy.”
Simone Beta (University of Siena): “It’s the Same Old Story: Oath of Greek Women in Musical Versions of Lysistrata.”
David Oosterhuis (Gonzaga University): “Orpheus, the Original Penniless Poet Plutus/Pluto in Anais Mitchell’s Hadestown.”
Thomas Jenkins (Trinity University, San Antonio): “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Whitehouse.”
SESSION II
10:45-12:45 Theoretical and Philosophical Issues
Michael Eckert (Theory and Composition, University of Iowa), moderator
Timothy McKinney (Baylor University): “Ancient Musical Theory and Musical Affect in the prima prattica.”
Tiziana Ragno (University of Foggia): "Hero and Leander as 'cantata': From ancient literature to accompanied monody and beyond."
James Lowe (John Burroughs School, St. Louis): “From Plato’s Athens to the Holy City—Inspiration, Spirituality and Ralph Vaughan Williams.”
Richard Dcamp (UW Oshkosh): “Carl Orff and Aeschylus’ Prometheus Desmotes.”
Lunch break
FRIDAY AFTERNOON
SESSION III
2:15-4:15 19th and 20th Century Opera
Carin Green (Classics, University of Iowa), moderator
Peter Burian (Duke University): “Death and Transfiguration: Orpheus’ Fate on the Operatic Stage.”
Dana Munteanu (Ohio State University): “Parody of Greco-Myth in Jacques Offenbach’s Orfée aux enfers and La Belle Hélène.”
Lissa Crofton-Sleigh (University of Washington): “Helen with a Blue Dress on: Strauss’ Aegyptische Helen.”
William Gibbons (Texas Christian University): “Reweaving Penelope: Faure’s Penelope, Symbolism and Morality.”
4:30 Public lecture by Simon Goldhill (King’s College, Cambridge): “The Ideal Chorus: Opera, Philosophy and Tragedy.” Sponsored by Eighteenth/Nineteenth-Century Interdisciplinary Colloquium. Free and open to the public.
7:30 Jacopo Peri’s opera Euridice. (The UI Opera Studio). Riverside Recital Hall. Euridice (Florence, 1600) is the earliest extant opera. Repeated 2:00 p.m., Sunday, October 30. Free and open to the public.
SATURDAY MORNING October 29
SESSION IV
8:30-11:00 Early opera
Christine Getz (Musicology, University of Iowa), moderator
Wendy Heller (Princeton University): “Rescuing Ariadne.”
Carlo Lanfossi (Università degli Studi di Pavia): “Crafting Drama, rethinking history: Agrippina between 17th-Century Venice and Milan.”
Bruno Forment (Universiteit Gent / Vrije Universiteit Brussel): “‘Sono in Roma? ò in Aulide?’: Classical Templates as Musical Cues in Jommelli’s Cajo Mario.”
Reinhard Strohm (Wadham College, Oxford): “Noblesse Oblige: The privileges of rulers in opera.”
SESSION V
11:15-1:15 Stage practice
Andrew Simpson (Theory and Composition, Catholic University of America), moderator
Mary Kay Gamel (UC Santa Cruz): “’Singing and dancing’s our role in this show’: Putting Greek Drama to Music.”
Jane Shaw (Brooklyn, NY): “Many are the shapes of things divine: music and sound design in staging Greek drama.”
Marcus Mota (Universidade de Brasília): “Hearing and Dancing Beats An Interartistic Appropriation of Meters in Greek tragedy.”
Lunch break
SATURDAY AFTERNOON
SESSION VI
2:15-3:45 Film
Judith Hallett (Classics, University of Maryland), moderator
Murray Dahm (Opera Australia): “Reimagining the Scourge of God in Verdi’s Attila.”
Mark Brill (University of Texas-San Antonio): “Music and Myth in Orfeu Negro.”
Chris Ann Matteo (Stone Bridge High School, VA): “Dissecting Orpheus in Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge!”
4:00-5:00 Public lecture by Jon Solomon (University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana) with Andrew Simpson, keyboard and James Thompson, tenor: “The Music of Ben Hur.” Free and open to the public.
5:30-7:30 CONFERENCE DINNER by subscription with registration.
8:00 Free public screening of silent films with live piano music by Andrew Simpson (Catholic University of America). Englert Theater. Films include: La caduta di Troia (1911), Cupid and Psyche (1897), Ben Hur (1907), Ben Hur (1925), “A Roman Scandal” (Mutt and Jeff cartoon). Free and open to the public.
SUNDAY MORNING, October 30 (2520D UCC)
SESSION VII
10:00-12:30 The 20th Century
John Finamore (Classics, University of Iowa), moderator
Susanne Kogler (Kunstuniversität Graz): “Prometheus and the Muses: Myth, Gender and Creativity in 20th Century Music.”
Michael Eckert (University of Iowa): “Luigi Dallapiccola's Song Cycle ‘Liriche Greche’ (1942-45).”
Osman Umurhan (Rutgers University): “Heavy Metal and the Classics.”
Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Stanford University): “Bringing Swords of Damocles: Classical Legend in Contemporary Rap.”
Anastasia Bakogianni (The Open University, UK): “Haunting melodies of an ancient past: classical themes in the works of the modern Greek composer Eugenia Manolidou.”
2:00 PM Peri’s Euridice (Riverside Recital Hall). Free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Prof. Robert Ketterer.
