You will probably be aware of this from earlier information, but in case you aren't, Lydia is playing tomorrow at Oxford Uni, as part of a wider seminar. Here are the details:
Conference 2008
RUSSIA'S MUSICAL REVOLUTIONARIES: Annual One-Day Conference
In association with the Oxford University Faculty of Music and the Bate Collection. Convenors Rosamund Bartlett and Pauline Fairclough
Denis Arnold Hall, Music Faculty, St. Aldate’s, Oxford, Wednesday 1 October 2008
In memory of Neil Edmunds (1966-2008), author of The Soviet Proletarian Music Movement (2000) and editor of Soviet Music and Society under Lenin and Stalin: The Baton and Sickle (2004)
Programme
9.30-10.00 COFFEE
10.00-11.45 MORNING SESSION Chair: Katerina Levidou (Christchurch, Oxford)
* Margareta Tillberg (Max Planck Institute, Berlin): “Matiushin’s Sonic Colour”
* Lidia Ader (St. Petersburg Conservatoire): “Georgy Rimsky-Korsakov and Quarter-Tone Music in 1920s Soviet Russia”
* Elena Petrushanskaya (Academy of Sciences Institute of the Arts, Moscow): “Termen, Avraamov and Music for the Masses”
11.45-12.00 COFFEE
12.00-12.45 Lecture-demonstration by theremin virtuoso Lydia Kavina, who will discuss the revolutionary electronic instrument invented by her great-uncle Lev Termen in 1920, and the political biography of its creator.
12.45-2.15 LUNCH
2.15-4.00 AFTERNOON SESSION Chair: Pauline Fairclough (University of Bristol)
* Simo Mikkonen (Stanford University): “Persimfans: The Revolutionary Conductorless Orchestra”
* Jeremy Arden (University of Hertfordshire): “Who’s Afraid of Joseph Schillinger?”
* Ilya Levinson (University of Chicago): “’Systematic’ Gershwin: Evidence for the Schillinger System in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess”
4.00-4.30 TEA
4.30-5.30 "Hands On, Hands Off" workshop with Lydia Kavina at the Bate Collection. Participants will be invited to try out for themselves different models of the theremin.
7.30 Theremin recital by Lydia Kavina, accompanied by Philip Bullock (piano), Newman Room, Catholic Chaplaincy, Rose Place, St. Aldate’s (opposite Christchurch Gardens). Tickets (£10) will be available from Tickets Oxford and on the door.
ATTENDANCE AT THE CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP IS FREE; NO REGISTRATION IS NECESSARY. ALL ARE WELCOME. Enquiries: Rosamund Bartlett.
Convenors:
Rosamund Bartlett and Pauline Fairclough
Conference 2008
RUSSIA'S MUSICAL REVOLUTIONARIES: Annual One-Day Conference
In association with the Oxford University Faculty of Music and the Bate Collection. Convenors Rosamund Bartlett and Pauline Fairclough
Denis Arnold Hall, Music Faculty, St. Aldate’s, Oxford, Wednesday 1 October 2008
In memory of Neil Edmunds (1966-2008), author of The Soviet Proletarian Music Movement (2000) and editor of Soviet Music and Society under Lenin and Stalin: The Baton and Sickle (2004)
Programme
9.30-10.00 COFFEE
10.00-11.45 MORNING SESSION Chair: Katerina Levidou (Christchurch, Oxford)
* Margareta Tillberg (Max Planck Institute, Berlin): “Matiushin’s Sonic Colour”
* Lidia Ader (St. Petersburg Conservatoire): “Georgy Rimsky-Korsakov and Quarter-Tone Music in 1920s Soviet Russia”
* Elena Petrushanskaya (Academy of Sciences Institute of the Arts, Moscow): “Termen, Avraamov and Music for the Masses”
11.45-12.00 COFFEE
12.00-12.45 Lecture-demonstration by theremin virtuoso Lydia Kavina, who will discuss the revolutionary electronic instrument invented by her great-uncle Lev Termen in 1920, and the political biography of its creator.
12.45-2.15 LUNCH
2.15-4.00 AFTERNOON SESSION Chair: Pauline Fairclough (University of Bristol)
* Simo Mikkonen (Stanford University): “Persimfans: The Revolutionary Conductorless Orchestra”
* Jeremy Arden (University of Hertfordshire): “Who’s Afraid of Joseph Schillinger?”
* Ilya Levinson (University of Chicago): “’Systematic’ Gershwin: Evidence for the Schillinger System in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess”
4.00-4.30 TEA
4.30-5.30 "Hands On, Hands Off" workshop with Lydia Kavina at the Bate Collection. Participants will be invited to try out for themselves different models of the theremin.
7.30 Theremin recital by Lydia Kavina, accompanied by Philip Bullock (piano), Newman Room, Catholic Chaplaincy, Rose Place, St. Aldate’s (opposite Christchurch Gardens). Tickets (£10) will be available from Tickets Oxford and on the door.
ATTENDANCE AT THE CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP IS FREE; NO REGISTRATION IS NECESSARY. ALL ARE WELCOME. Enquiries: Rosamund Bartlett.
Convenors:
Rosamund Bartlett and Pauline Fairclough
