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Fwd: [MUSICOLOGY-ALL] CFP: Beckett and Music Symposium
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Stuart Riddle
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May 29, 2008 10:17 PDT
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Begin forwarded message:
| | From: Harper-Scott JPE <j.p.e.har-@rhul.ac.uk>
Date: 29 May 2008 14:24:40 BDT
To: MUSICOL-@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [MUSICOLOGY-ALL] CFP: Beckett and Music Symposium
Reply-To: Harper-Scott JPE <j.p.e.har-@rhul.ac.uk>
****Forwarded message from Nicholas Till <N.T-@sussex.ac.uk>****
BECKETT AND MUSIC
An interdisciplinary symposium organised by the Centre for Research
in Opera and Music Theatre and the Department of English and Drama,
University of Sussex.
Friday November 7 2008
<http://www.sussex.ac.uk/music/1-1.php?
output=html&refer=4834&oftype=announcement&fromdept=1&id=25595>
Samuel Beckett had a deep fascination with music. Several of his
works incorporate canonical musical texts: Schubert's string
quartet "Death and the Maiden" in All That Fall; the same
composer's Lied "Nacht und Träume" in the TV drama the same name;
Beethoven's "Ghost" Trio (op. 70) in the TV drama The Ghost Trio.
In two of his radio plays, Words and Music and Cascando, Beckett
engages directly with the problematic of music and language, and he
supplied a text for the American composer Morton Feldman’s opera
Neither. Beckett was also interested in the philosophical
aesthetics of music, in particular the writings of Schopenhauer,
and critics have often noted the “musicality” of his approach to
writing and theatrical composition. Beckett’s works have also
inspired many composers, including Luciano Berio, Geörgy Kurtág,
Philip Glass, Heinz Holliger, Michael Finnissy, Roger Marsh and
Richard Barrett.
This symposium will provide an opportunity to review work that has
been undertaken on Beckett and music since the publication of the
1998 collection of essays Samuel Beckett and Music edited by Mary
Bryden (OUP), and to extend that conversation to consider the ways
in which Beckett’s engagement with music is conveyed across a range
of practices and disciplines.
The symposium will also include a staged performance of Stefano
Gervasoni’s short music theatre piece based on Beckett’s text “Pas
si” (1998, revised 2008), and performances of other Beckett-
inspired musical works.
Proposals for papers or presentations should be submitted as
abstracts of no more than 300 words to n.t-@sussex.ac.uk by
August 30 2008.
We would also welcome any proposals for performative, musical or
sound works inspired by Beckett, or based on Beckett texts.
Conference Organisers: Sara Jane Bailes and Peter Boxall,
Department of English and Drama, Nicholas Till, Department of Music.
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Dr Nicholas Till
Senior Lecturer in Music
Director, Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cromt/
Department of Music
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QN
Tel: +00 44 (0)1273 678693
Email: n.t-@sussex.ac.uk
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Dr J. P. E. Harper-Scott
Lecturer in Music
Department of Music
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, Great Britain
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Music/jpeh-s.html
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