Links to events relating to 18th-century music (will open new browser windows). Links to past events can be found here.
Haydn 2009 In Boston
The Haydn Society of North America, in partnership with the Handel and Haydn Society
Dates: 28–31 May 2009
Location: Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts
In celebration of the Haydn Year 2009, The Haydn Society of North America, in partnership with the Handel and Haydn Society, will hold a conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts on May 28–31, 2009. The conference, which is co-sponsored and hosted by the Longy School of Music, will conclude with the Handel and Haydn Society’s free, outdoor performance of The Creation on Boston’s Esplanade on Sunday afternoon, May 31st.
Proposals are invited for papers on critical, analytical, and historical topics related to Haydn and his musical context. Proposals that address The Creation, Haydn’s Vienna at the time of The Creation or the work’s extraordinary reception, as well as those that connect scholarly work with performance (e.g. Haydn-themed recitals and/or lecture-recitals) and/or teaching (e.g. teaching Haydn in the classroom, with student musicians, and/or with choruses) will be especially welcome. We are open to considering a variety of sessions or events, and encourage you to send proposals and ideas for participation. Papers should fit a 30-minute time slot.
Proposals (300 words maximum), indicating A/V needs, should be sent by 30 September 2008 as e-mail attachments or by post to:
Benjamin M. Korstvedt
Associate Professor of Music
Chair of the Haydn 2009 Program Committee
Clark University
Worcester, Massachusetts 01610
bkorstvedt@clarku.edu
The program committee includes Floyd Grave (Rutgers University), Benjamin Korstvedt (Clark University), Michael Lamkin (Scripps College), Melanie Lowe (Vanderbilt University), Rebecca Marchand (Haydn Society of North America), and Jessica Waldoff (The College of the Holy Cross). For more information about the Haydn Society of North America, its goals, and its activities, please visit our Web site: www.haydnsocietyofnorthamerica.org.
Deadline for proposals: 30 September 2008
Call for Papers and Presentations
Mozart In Prague
A joint meeting of the Mozart Society of America & Society for Eighteenth-Century Music
Dates: 9–13 June 2009
Location: Prague
The Mozart Society of America and the Society for Eighteenth-Century Music invite proposals for papers and presentations to be offered at our forthcoming conference in Prague, 9–13 June 2009. We wish to explore not only Mozart and his music in the Prague setting, but also the musical culture of Bohemia and neighboring territories during the long eighteenth century. Topics may include Mozart opera in Prague, music in Bohemian convents and monasteries, musical patronage in Central Europe, Mozart’s Czech contemporaries (composers, singers, instrumentalists, impresarios), the dissemination of Mozart’s music in Central Europe during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and important 18th-century sources and collections in the region. We welcome new perspectives on these and other topics that engage the general themes of the conference and contribute to knowledge of a rich musical culture that Mozart found particularly congenial.
Please submit an abstract of up to 500 words about your proposed topic, along with an indication of equipment necessary for your presentation, to the Program Chair: Kathryn L. Libin, kalibin@vassar.edu.
Deadline for proposals: 1 December 2008
Call for Papers
Celebrating Haydn: His Times And Legacy
An international conference to commemorate the bicentenary of Joseph Haydn’s death
Dates: 6-9 August 2009
Location: York University, Toronto, Canada
This interdisciplinary conference will create an opportunity to celebrate the music of Joseph Haydn and to reflect on his legacy, influence, and reception over the past two hundred years. With a prodigious output in all of the Classical era’s main genres, Haydn has been the focus of much serious scholarship throughout his life and continuing until the present day. While there is already a wealth of extant research, the opportunity still exists to consider Haydn’s music and its reception even further. This conference will provide a forum for both internationally renowned Haydn scholars as well as emerging scholars to share their research in a lively and dynamic environment. As this is an interdisciplinary conference, the organizers welcome paper proposals from a wide range of disciplines including, but not limited to, musicology, performance practice, theatre and dance history, drama, and literature.
The programme for the conference will include evening concerts featuring the Penderecki String Quartet as well as fortepianist Malcolm Bilson. There will be four plenary speakers including Julian Rushton (Professor Emeritus, University of Leeds), Elaine Sisman (Anne Parsons Bender Professor of Music, Columbia University), and Sigrid T’Hooft (dramaturg, choreographer-stage director, International Opera Foundation Eszterháza, Belgium), as well as a Roundtable, and 96 conference papers. A banquet and off-campus events are also being planned.
Scholars and performers are cordially invited to submit 250-word abstracts for papers or proposals for lecture-recitals for review by the programme committee to haydnconference@brocku.ca. Conference papers of 25 minutes and 50-minute lecture-recitals will be followed by a 5-minute discussion period. Deadline for submission of proposals: Oct. 1, 2008. The official languages of the conference are English and French.
The conference organizers, Patricia Debly (Brock University) and Dorothy de Val (York University), look forward to welcoming you to this conference in August 2009.
For further information and conference updates, please see the conference website: http://www.brocku.ca/haydnconferenceyork/
Celebrating Haydn: his Times and Legacy has been approved to be one of the official sponsored events to celebrate York University’s 50th Anniversary.