Counterpoints:
19th-Century Literature & Music
A Conference Sponsored by 19th-Century Music
Sponsored by Fordham University and 19th-Century Music
Friday and Saturday October 21 and 22, 2011
Lowenstein Building, 113 W. 60th St., New York, NY 10023
NW Corner 60th St. and Columbus Avenue. Nearest subway: Columbus Circle
Click here for directions.
Schedule
Friday
Friday morning 9:45-1:00: Practices
McMahon Lounge (109 McMahon Hall, entrance on 60th St.)
Chia-Yi Wu (Rutgers University)
A Spinner’s Tale: Schubert’s String Quartet No. 13 in A Minor, D. 804
Elizabeth Morgan (St. Joseph’s University)
The Accompanied Sonata and the Domestic Novel in Britain at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
Melissa Khong (CUNY Graduate Center)
Composing Emotions: Guillaume Lekeu's Meditation in G for String Quartet
Sean Parr (St. Anselm College)
Dance and the Female Singer: Vertiginous Voices in Second Empire Paris
Friday afternoon 2:30-5:30: Crossovers
McMahon Lounge (109 McMahon Hall, entrance on 60th St.)
Adem Birson (Cornell University)
Mannerism and Late Style in Brahms' String Quintet, Op. 111
Dan Wang (University of Chicago)
Tennyson's Ambivalence, Strauss's Revision: The Tale of Enoch Arden
Polina Dimova (Oberlin College)
Decadent Senses: The Dissemination of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé Across the Arts
Naomi Perley (CUNY Graduate Center)
The Language of an Unknown Country: Intratextuality in Proust’s In Search of Lost Time
Saturday
Saturday morning 9:45-1:00: Pianos
12th Floor Lounge (Lowenstein Building, entrance on NW corner, 60th and Columbus)
Edgardo Salinas (Columbia Society of Fellows in the Humanities)
Beethoven's “Neue Manier”, Schlegel's Romantic Critique: A Case for Cognitive Consonance Within the Economy of the Literary
Andrew Haringer (Columbia University)
Liszt, Lamartine, and the Sacred Pastoral in Harmonies poétiques et religieuses
Jodi Jolley (University of Oregon)
The Double-Neighbor and Two Lies: Story-telling in Brahms’s Ballade in D minor and Herder’s “Edward” Ballad
Laura Moore Pruett (Merrimack College)
“Mon triste voyage”: Sentimentality and Autobiography in Gottschalk’s The Dying Poet
Saturday afternoon 2:15 -5:30: Performances
12th Floor Lounge (Lowenstein Building, entrance on NW corner, 60th and Columbus)
Emily Erken (Ohio State University)
A Dialogue between Chekhov, Tchaikovsky, and Shostakovich: John Neumeier’s 2002 Ballet The Seagull
Victoria Tzotzkova (Columbia University)
On Developing an Interpretation: Stanislavsky on Acting, Lewin on Debussy, and Baudelaire’s Influence on Personal Performance Experience
Brent Wetters (Brown University)
Idea and Actualization in Bruno Maderna's Hyperion
Brianna Wells (University of Alberta)
Experiencing the Intermedial Uncanny in the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD Broadcasts
Saturday Evening 7:30
12th Floor Lounge
Piano Recital
Featuring Andrew Haringer, Melissa Khong, Elizabeth Morgan, Naomi Perley, Victoria Tzotzkova, and Dan Wang
