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After Mahler´s Death - International Gustav Mahler Symposium and Excursion
24 – 28 May 2011
Vienna (Wiener Konzerthaus), A
Kalischte, Jihlava, Olomouc, CZ
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (MAED) together with
exil.arte, Department of Musicology of Palacký University Olomouc, IES
Abroad Vienna and IMFG
Under the patronage of the Foreign Minister of Austria Michael
Spindelegger and of the Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic Karel
Schwarzenberg
Symposium 24th – 26th May 2011
Topic: The composer’s posthumous reception in connection with historical
and aesthetic
questions
Special guests: Michael Tilson Thomas, Thomas Hampson, Jason Starr
1st Day (24 May): History and Reception
9:00 Greeting
9:30 Opening lecture Morten Solvik (IES Abroad Vienna):
Ø “Mahler on Mahler After Mahler”
10:00–11:00 Session 1
10:00 Timothy David Freeze (Indiana University)
Ø “Klezmer and the Posthumous Reception of the Third Movement of
Mahler´s First Symphony”
10:30 Abby Anderton (University of Michigan)
Ø “´Wir genießen die himmlischen Freuden, drum tun wir das Irdische
meiden´: Mahler´s Fourth Symphony in Postwar Berlin”
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30–12:30 Session 2
11:30 Milijana Pavlovic (Bosnia und Herzegovina)
Ø “The Curious Case of Mahler´s Reception in Italy”
12:00 Matthew Mugmon (Harvard University)
Ø “Mahler´s Modernist Champions: Boulanger and Copland in France and the
United States”
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 Round Table (1) with Michael Tilson Thomas on Gustav Mahler
with clips from his new film Keeping Score: Gustav Mahler
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
2nd Day (25 May): Media
9:00 Opening lecture Gerold Gruber (University of Music and Performing
Arts Vienna)
Ø “Mahler´s Symphonic Aesthetics in the Tradition of Film Music”
9:30 – 10:30 Session 3
9:30 Ilaria Grippaudo (University of Rome „La Sapienza“)
Ø “Mahler and Film: The Case of Woody Allen”
10:00 Eftychia Papanikolaou (Bowling Green State University):
Ø “Ken Russell´s Mahler as Reception History”
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–12:00 Session 4
11:00 Jeremy Barham (University of Surrey):
Ø “Mahler on Screen: Truth, Translation, Travesty”
11:30 Greg Hurworth (Palacky University Olomouc, Monash University
Melbourne):
Ø “Leonard Bernstein´s The Little Drummer Boy”
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 Round Table (2) with filmmaker Jason Starr
Screening and presentation of his latest Mahler production
Of Love, Death and Beyond: Exploring Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
19:30 Concert of Mahler´s Ninth Symphony by Michael Tilson Thomas and
San
Francisco Symphony in Wiener Konzerthaus
3rd Day (26 May): Conducting and Composition
9:00–10:30 Session 5
9:00 Sybille Werner (Conductor, New York):
Ø “Mahler Performance History 1911–1961”
9:30 Randy Kinnett (Southern Methodist University, Dallas):
Ø “Berg´s Reception of Mahler: The Chamber Concerto Revisited”
10:00 Eveline Nikkels (Netherlands):
Ø “Wer hatte Recht… (Bruno Walter x Willem Mengelberg)”
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–12:00 Session 6
11:00 Thomas Peattie (Boston University):
Ø “Hearing Mahler: Berio´s Sinfonia and the (Re)ordering of Musical
Events”
11:30 Bogumila Mika (University of Silesia, Katowice):
Ø “´My time will come´: Mahler´s Influence on Polish Postmodern Music”
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 Round Table (3) with Thomas Hampson
Screening and presentation of production Gustav Mahler: A Life in Song
16:00–16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 Panel discussion concerning the “Mahler Renaissance and Mahler
Today”
Free admission!
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Excursion 27 - 28 May 2011
Point of departure and return: Wiener Konzerthaus
Aim of excursion: Mahler sites in the Czech Republic
Price: € 90 (2 days of bus travel, night in a included, entrance to the
“Mahler Haus”)
1st Day (27 May):
Ø Birthplace in Kalischte
Ø Jihlava – the new park with the statue of Gustav Mahler, exhibition in
Mahler’s house,
Jewish cemetery, churches in Jihlava
Ø Accommodation in a hotel in Jihlava
2nd Day (28 May):
Ø Sightseeing in Olomouc, which is on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage
list
Ø Concert in the Corpus Christi Chapel of Palacký University
Ø Return to Vienna
Contact persons: Gerold Gruber, Morten Solvik, Pavlina Divosova
Please register for the Symposium as well as the Excursion to 18 May at:
[email protected] or +43 1 711 55 3533.
Univ.Prof. Dr. Gerold W. Gruber
Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
Lothringerstraße 18, A-1030 Wien
Telefon: +43 1 711 55-3510
Fax: +43 1 711 55-3598
e-mail: [email protected]
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After Mahler´s Death - International Gustav Mahler Symposium and Excursion
24 – 28 May 2011
Vienna (Wiener Konzerthaus), A
Kalischte, Jihlava, Olomouc, CZ
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (MAED) together with
exil.arte, Department of Musicology of Palacký University Olomouc, IES
Abroad Vienna and IMFG
Under the patronage of the Foreign Minister of Austria Michael
Spindelegger and of the Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic Karel
Schwarzenberg
Symposium 24th – 26th May 2011
Topic: The composer’s posthumous reception in connection with historical
and aesthetic
questions
Special guests: Michael Tilson Thomas, Thomas Hampson, Jason Starr
1st Day (24 May): History and Reception
9:00 Greeting
9:30 Opening lecture Morten Solvik (IES Abroad Vienna):
Ø “Mahler on Mahler After Mahler”
10:00–11:00 Session 1
10:00 Timothy David Freeze (Indiana University)
Ø “Klezmer and the Posthumous Reception of the Third Movement of
Mahler´s First Symphony”
10:30 Abby Anderton (University of Michigan)
Ø “´Wir genießen die himmlischen Freuden, drum tun wir das Irdische
meiden´: Mahler´s Fourth Symphony in Postwar Berlin”
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30–12:30 Session 2
11:30 Milijana Pavlovic (Bosnia und Herzegovina)
Ø “The Curious Case of Mahler´s Reception in Italy”
12:00 Matthew Mugmon (Harvard University)
Ø “Mahler´s Modernist Champions: Boulanger and Copland in France and the
United States”
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 Round Table (1) with Michael Tilson Thomas on Gustav Mahler
with clips from his new film Keeping Score: Gustav Mahler
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
2nd Day (25 May): Media
9:00 Opening lecture Gerold Gruber (University of Music and Performing
Arts Vienna)
Ø “Mahler´s Symphonic Aesthetics in the Tradition of Film Music”
9:30 – 10:30 Session 3
9:30 Ilaria Grippaudo (University of Rome „La Sapienza“)
Ø “Mahler and Film: The Case of Woody Allen”
10:00 Eftychia Papanikolaou (Bowling Green State University):
Ø “Ken Russell´s Mahler as Reception History”
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–12:00 Session 4
11:00 Jeremy Barham (University of Surrey):
Ø “Mahler on Screen: Truth, Translation, Travesty”
11:30 Greg Hurworth (Palacky University Olomouc, Monash University
Melbourne):
Ø “Leonard Bernstein´s The Little Drummer Boy”
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 Round Table (2) with filmmaker Jason Starr
Screening and presentation of his latest Mahler production
Of Love, Death and Beyond: Exploring Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
19:30 Concert of Mahler´s Ninth Symphony by Michael Tilson Thomas and
San
Francisco Symphony in Wiener Konzerthaus
3rd Day (26 May): Conducting and Composition
9:00–10:30 Session 5
9:00 Sybille Werner (Conductor, New York):
Ø “Mahler Performance History 1911–1961”
9:30 Randy Kinnett (Southern Methodist University, Dallas):
Ø “Berg´s Reception of Mahler: The Chamber Concerto Revisited”
10:00 Eveline Nikkels (Netherlands):
Ø “Wer hatte Recht… (Bruno Walter x Willem Mengelberg)”
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–12:00 Session 6
11:00 Thomas Peattie (Boston University):
Ø “Hearing Mahler: Berio´s Sinfonia and the (Re)ordering of Musical
Events”
11:30 Bogumila Mika (University of Silesia, Katowice):
Ø “´My time will come´: Mahler´s Influence on Polish Postmodern Music”
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 Round Table (3) with Thomas Hampson
Screening and presentation of production Gustav Mahler: A Life in Song
16:00–16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 Panel discussion concerning the “Mahler Renaissance and Mahler
Today”
Free admission!
********************************
Excursion 27 - 28 May 2011
Point of departure and return: Wiener Konzerthaus
Aim of excursion: Mahler sites in the Czech Republic
Price: € 90 (2 days of bus travel, night in a included, entrance to the
“Mahler Haus”)
1st Day (27 May):
Ø Birthplace in Kalischte
Ø Jihlava – the new park with the statue of Gustav Mahler, exhibition in
Mahler’s house,
Jewish cemetery, churches in Jihlava
Ø Accommodation in a hotel in Jihlava
2nd Day (28 May):
Ø Sightseeing in Olomouc, which is on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage
list
Ø Concert in the Corpus Christi Chapel of Palacký University
Ø Return to Vienna
Contact persons: Gerold Gruber, Morten Solvik, Pavlina Divosova
Please register for the Symposium as well as the Excursion to 18 May at:
[email protected] or +43 1 711 55 3533.
Univ.Prof. Dr. Gerold W. Gruber
Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
Lothringerstraße 18, A-1030 Wien
Telefon: +43 1 711 55-3510
Fax: +43 1 711 55-3598
e-mail: [email protected]
