PRINCIPLES OF MUSIC COMPOSING: National Romanticism and Contemporary Music
19–21 October 2011, Vilnius
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
October 19
Lithuanian Composers’ Union House (A. Mickevičiaus g. 29)
9.40 Registration
10.00 Welcome
SESSION 1: The paradigm of Romantic composing; collisions of Romanticism and Modernism in the works by M.K. Čiurlionis
10.30 Rimantas Astrauskas (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre). The World Music Paradigm in the Creative Works of the Lithuanian Composers
11.00 Francisco Monteiro (Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal). Portuguese Music in the Last 100 Years: Searching for an Identity
11.30 Rima Povilionienė (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre). Fugue in B flat Minor by Čiurlionis: Structural and Semantic Analysis
12.00–12.30 Coffee Break
12.30 Mantautas Krukauskas (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre). Interdisciplinary Links in M. K. Čiurlionis Music, Paintings and Texts
13.00 Tatyana Voloshina (National Academy of Music, Ukraine). ‘Marinistika’ (Sea Imagery Reflection) as a Phenomenon of Composer’s Synthetic Thinking in the Works of M. K. Čiurlionis
13.30 Rimantas Janeliauskas (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre). Musical Archetypes in M. K. Čiurlionis‘ Cycles
COMPOSERS' SESSION: Master Classes
Lithuanian Composers’ Union House (A. Mickevičiaus g. 29)
16.00–17.00 Harri Wessman (Finland)
17.15–18.15 Francis Heery (Ireland)
October 20
Lithuanian Composers’ Union House (A. Mickevičiaus g. 29)
SESSION 2: The authentic national romantic music composing in geographical and chronological dimensions
10.00 Inga Jankauskienė (Lithuanian Culture Research Institute). The Idea of United Europe in Music: Polonaise and Chorale
10.30 Markos Lekkas (Ionian University, Greece). Towards a Vernacular Sonata?
11.00 Achilleas Chaldaeakes (University of Athens, Greece). “…old wine into new bottles…”: The Continuity of the Tradition in the Contemporary Composition Practice of Byzantine Music
11.30–12.00 Coffee Break
12.00 Kalliopi Stiga (College of Kea, Cyclades, Greece), Evangelia Kopsalidou (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece). ‘Thanatos as Muse’: from German National Romanticism
to Greek Contemporary Music
12.30 Anton Rovner (Moscow Conservatory, Russia). The Aesthetics of Russian Symbolism as Demonstrated in Sergei Protopopoff’s Vocal Cycles “Youth” and “Poem of Love”
13.00 Sanna Iitti (Finland). The Meaning and Manifestation of Un-Conceptualizable Drives in Franz Liszt’s Loreley
CONCERT: Unidentified Piano Cycles of M. K. Čiurlionis
19.00 PIANO.LT Concert Hall (Trakų g. 9 / Kėdainių g. 1)
With the participation of: Petras Geniušas, Rimantas Janeliauskas, Sergejus Okruško, Halina Radvilaitė, Jurgis Karnavičius, Rokas Zubovas
October 21
Lithuanian Composers’ Union House (A. Mickevičiaus g. 29)
SESSION 3: The continuity and challenges of romantic tradition in modern composition practice
10.00 Inesa Dvuzhylnaya (Grodno State University, Belarus). The Works of Lev Abeliovich (1912, Vilno–1985 Minsk) in the History of Musical Culture of Belarus: Reflecting on
National Self-Identification
10.30 Margarita Katunyan (Moscow Conservatory, Russia). Schumann’s Impressions in the 20th-Century Music: The New Commentary as a Form of Cultural Self-Identification
11.00 Peter Purin (Oklahoma Baptist University, USA). A Waltz in Four?: The Manipulation of Accompaniment Schemata in the Identification of Stephen Sondheim’s Musical Style
11.30–12.00 Coffee Break
12.00 Svetlana Barkauskas (Lithuania). The Human and the World in the Seventh Symphony of Vytautas Barkauskas
12.30 Igor Vorobyev (St. Petersburg Conservatory, Russia). “The Wartime Letters” by Valery Gavrilin: a Dialogue with the Romantic Tradition
13.00 Jānis Kudiņš (Latvian Academy of Music). The Tendency of Neo-Romanticism in the Symphonic Music of Latvian Composers in the Early 21st Century. Several Aspects of the Local Stylistic Traditions in the Symphonic Works by Pēteris Vasks, Juris Karlsons and Arturs Maskats
13.30 Discussions. Closing of the Conference
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Vangelis Karafillidis (State Music High School, Komotini, Greece). Nicolas Astrinidis (1921–2010): Compositional Languages in his ‘Deux Pičces en Style Grec’ for Violin and Piano
Luminita Gutanu (“Spiru Haret” University, Bucharest, Romania). The Amalgamation of Greek Folk Music with Western Musical Tradition in Vangelis Karafillidis’ “Variations on a Greek Island Dance” and “Micrographies” Nos. 3 & 4
Pavel Puşcaş (Music Academy “Gheorghe Dima” - Cluj Napoca, Romania). The German Romanticism – Philosophical Background
The main language of the conference is English.
Abstracts and papers of the conference will be published.
For more information about the conference contact:
Marius Baranauskas, coordinator
Lithuanian Composers’ Union
A. Mickeviciaus g. 29, LT-08117 Vilnius, Lithuania
pmc@lmta.lt
http://pmc.lmta.lt
Organisers:
Lithuanian Composers' Union
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
Sponsors:
Research Council of Lithuania
Lithuanian Culture Support Foundation
Piano.lt
