The Symphony Orchestra as Cultural Phenomenon: Draft Programme

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The Symphony Orchestra as Cultural Phenomenon: Draft Programme



Thursday 1 July	Room 1		Room 2

12.00–14.00	Registration and lunch
14.00–14.15	Welcome Session
Chair	Duncan Boutwood/Roddy Hawkins

14.15–15.15	Women's Orchestras		Recording the Orchestra
Chair
	L’Orchestre féminin de Paris: A Woman’s Orchestra in Interwar France	Laura Hamer, Birmingham Conservatoire	The London Symphony Orchestra: recording for LSO Live	Ananay Aguilar, RHUL
	In the Wrong Geographic Location: The Rise and Demise of Canada’s Only All-Women’s Symphony Orchestra	Maria L Noriega, U. of Calgary	From Stage to Studio (…and back again)	Amy Carruthers, KCL

15.15–15.45	Tea/Coffee

15.45–17.00	Keynote 1: David C. H. Wright
Title	The symphony orchestra in an age of public subsidy: paying the piper and calculating the cost effectiveness of the tune in post-war Britain
Chair	John Irving

19.30–22.00	[Optional] LPO Concert, Royal Festival Hall, South Bank John Adams: Shaker Loops, Philip Glass: Violin Concerto No.1, Ravi Shankar: Symphony (World premiere)

Friday 2 July	Room 1		Room 2
9.45–11.15	Subsidy and the State		Conductors and Leaders
Chair
	The concept of public service broadcasting and the orchestras of the Belgian National Broadcasting Institute (N.I.R.): The search for a fitting music policy (1930-1939)	Lieselotte Goessens, Vrije U. Brussel	Defining the Job Description: Case Studies in English Orchestral Conducting in the mid-1800s	Fiona M Palmer, N. U. of Ireland, Maynooth
	Questions of Yugoslavian Symphonism and Its Institutions: The Case of Belgrade Open Competition of 1935	Srdan Atanasovski, U. of Arts in Belgrade	Of Conductors, Orchestras, and Docile Bodies: Concert Culture as Embodied Experience in Nineteenth-Century America	Steven Baur, Dalhousie U.
	The Symphony Orchestra and Musical Vitality	Benjamin Wolf	New Perspectives on Viennese Concert Life: Eduard Strauss’s Orchestra at the Musikverein, 1870-1900	Zoe Lang, U. of South Florida

11.15–11.45	Tea/Coffee

11.45–13.00	Keynote 2: Tina K. Ramnarine
	Interacting Orchestras: On New Communities, Social Relevance and Digital Technologies
Chair

13.00–14.00	Lunch

14.00–15.30	Panel:Premier(e) Culture		Symphonic Influences
Chair
	(a) When All Music Was New Music: Creating Audiences in 19th-century Chicago	Mark Clague, U. of Michigan	Dropping the Bomb: Trinidadian Steel Band Adaptions of the Symphony Orchestra	Janine Tiffe
	(b) An American Experiment: The Louisville Orchestra New Music Project, 1948–57	Michael Mauskapf, U. of Michigan	The Nusantara Symphony Orchestra: A Study in the Cross-Cultural Process	Edward Van Ness, Nusantara Symphony Orchestra
	From the Atlanta School to the Reno Philharmonic’s New Music Initiative: A Conductor’s Role in Creating a Public for New Music	Laura Jackson, Reno Philharmonic	The Identity of the Modern Chinese Orchestra and Guoyue in Taiwan	Chang-Yi Chen, U. of Sheffield

15.30–16.00	Tea/Coffee

16.00–17.30	Elitism/Popularity		Constructing Canons
Chair
	The Critical Response to Profitable Concerts: Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra, 1930-1950	Ayden Adler, The Philadelphia Orchestra Assoc.	Nineteenth-Century Italian Orchestral Societies and Beethoven’s Symphonies	Aaron S Allen, U. of N. Carolina at Greensboro
	Jacques Offenbach and American Cultural Enterprise ca. 1876	Myron Gray, U. of Pennsylvania	Music Critic George P. Upton and the Philharmonic Society: Promoting Orchestral Culture in 1860s Chicago	James Deaville, Carleton U.
	A Democratic Commodity! The Hallé Orchestra in the 1920s	Declan Plummer, Queen's U. Belfast	Making Mahler French: Bernstein’s case for the composer in 1960	Matthew Mugmon,

19.00–22.00	[Optional] Conference Dinner

Saturday 3 July	Room 1		Room 2
9.45–10.45	Representations of the Orchestra		The Albert Hall and Transience
Chair
	The Orchestra as a Machine in the French Romanticism	Nicholas Southon	In Search of an Ephemeral Orchestra: the New Symphony Orchestra, 1905–38	Emily Worthington, U. of York
	Making Overtures: The Films of the M-G-M Symphony Orchestra	Nathan Platte, U. of Michigan	The Proms Arena as a Site of Pleasurable Work	Jonathan Gross

10.45–11.00	Short break

11.00–12.30	Ideology and Value		Orchestras and Cultural Policy Today
Chair
	Militarisation, Industrialisation and the growth of the Symphony Orchestra in the Nineteenth Century	Ian Pace	An American Regional Orchestra in the Twenty-First Century: Beethoven, Harleys, and Social Justice	Melissa Angel Straus
	Decorating the Bund: Establishment of the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra as a Colonial Ideology	Irene Pui-ling Pang, U. of Hong Kong	Materializing the Immaterial: Putting Musical Autonomy to Work in Venezuela	Sarah Carsman, U. of California, Berkeley
	Negotiating the values of classical music: towards a definition of the symphony orchestra as a cultural actor	Francis Maes, Ghent U.	The effect of economic collapse on government music policy in Iceland and the Iceland Symphony Orchestra	Thorbjorg Daphne Hall, U. of Nottingham

12.30-13.30	Lunch

13.30–14.30	Orchestral 'Alternatives'		Group Dynamics
Chair
	The Baroque Orchestra: Balancing Commodification and Counterculture	Kailan R. Rubinoff, U. of N. Carolina at Greensboro	Temporary culture: a psychoanalytic perspective on group life in the orchestra	Lydia Hartland-Rowe, Tavistock Clinic/U. of East London
	Out of Tune, Out of Time, Off-Key: The Really Terrible Orchestra and the Politics of Musical Failure	Francesca Brittan, Case Western Reserve U.	Instruments and identity in British orchestras during the twentieth century	Bradley Strauchen, Horniman Museum

14.30–16.00	Round-table discussion
Title	The future of the symphony orchestra in the twenty-first century
Chair	Julian Rushton

Speakers	Stephen Cottrell (Goldsmiths College, London)
	James Dillon (University of Minnesota)
	Kathryn McDowell (London Symphony Orchestra)
	Emile Wennekes (Utrecht University)

16.00–16.30	Closing Session
Chair	Duncan Boutwood/Roddy Hawkins

16.30–17.30	We are planning to hold a wine reception, sponsorship permitting

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