Conference Schedule (updated 10 June 2008)

N.B. Nigel Simeone's paper has been moved to Saturday morning.

All events are in the Recital Hall at Birmingham Conservatoire unless indicated otherwise

Friday 20 June

From 4.30pm (Foyer)

Registration opens

6.00pm

Welcome and Keynote Address

Hugh Macdonald: The Legacy of the Belle Époque

7.30pm (Birmingham Town Hall)

Birmingham Conservatoire Orchestra Concert

Saturday 21 June

9.15-10.45: Session 1

Christopher Dingle (Birmingham Conservatoire

A Love without influence? Messiaen and Mozart

 

Nigel Simeone (University of Sheffield)

Transfiguration by name…: the sketches for Messiaen’s oratorio

Jean Boivin (Université de Sherbrooke)

In Search of an Objective Evaluation of Messiaen’s Theoritical Writings: The Reception of the Traité de rythme, de couleur et d'ornithologie

* * * break * * *

11.15-12.15: Session 2

Christoph Neidhöfer (McGill University)

Messiaen’s Counterpoint

Anne-Sylvie Barthel (Université Paul Verlaine de Metz)

Messiaen: a model and originator for Xenakis' rationalization of compositional processes and development of additive rhythmics

* * * short break * * *

12.30-1.15: Special Session

Sigune von Osten

Beyond the score: my collaboration with Messiaen (and Yvonne Loriod) on Harawi

* * * lunch * * * 

2.15-3.45: Session 3

Julian Anderson (Guildhall School of Music & Drama)

Messiaen and the notion of influence

Vincent Benitez (Pennsylvania State University)

Music as Incantation: An Examination of André Jolivet’s Influence on Olivier Messiaen

Caroline Rae (Cardiff University)

Messiaen and Ohana: Parallel Preoccupations or Anxiety of Influence ?

* * * break * * * 

4.15pm: Keynote Address

Claude Samuel: Permanences d'Olivier Messiaen

* * * break for dinner * * *

7.45pm: Evening Concert (Adrian Boult Hall)

Sunday 22 June

9.00-10.30: Session 4

Markus Bandur (Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg i. Br.)

“Symmetrical permutation”: Olivier Messiaen and the Genesis of Integral Serialism after 1950

Chris Murray (Université Lumière Lyon 2)

Timbres-durées

Amy Bauer (University of California, Irvine)

The Impossible Charm of Messiaen’s Chronochromie

[11.00am: Mass at St Chad's Cathedral]

The music at this Mass will reflect Messiaen’s predilections  N.B. This is not a conference event as such, but space is being made in the schedule for delegates to attend this, or other, services

* * * lunch (from 12.15) * * *

1.15-2.00: Special Session

Rebecca Rischin

For the End of Time

* * * short break * * *

2.15-3.45: Session 5

Yves Balmer (Ecole Normale Supérieure)

Genèse des formes dans Visions de l’Amen

Wai Ling Cheong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Birdsong, Revelation and Messiaen's Visions de l'amen 

Andrew Shenton (Boston University)

Five Quartets: the search for stillness, serenity and reconciliation in the war works of T. S. Eliot and Olivier Messiaen

* * * break * * * 

4.15-5.45: Session 6

Lucie Kayas

D'une pièce radiophonique à un cycle pour piano : genèse des Vingt Regards sur l'enfant Jésus 

Roger Nichols

Trois Petites Liturgies and the gift to be simple

Philip Weller (University of Nottingham)

Messiaen’s Poetics: the case of the Cinq Rechants

* * * break for dinner * * *

7.45pm: Evening Concert - Harawi

Monday 23 June

9.15-1045: Session 7

Raffaele Pozzi (Università degli Studi di Roma III – Italia)

The Reception of Olivier Messiaen in Italy: a Historical Interpretation

Germán Gan-Quesada (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

‘Is Messiaen a great musician?’ Messiaen's reception in postwar Spain (1945-1960)

Heather White Luckow (McGill University)

From France to Québec: Messiaen’s Transatlantic Legacy

* * * break * * *

11.15-12.45: Session 8

Anne Keeley (University College Dublin)

In the beginning was the Word? An exploration of the origins of Olivier Messiaen’s Méditations sur le Mystère de la Sainte Trinité  

Robert Sholl

The Shock of the Positive: Messiaen, St Francis and Modernity

David Kopp (Boston University)

Analyzing Messiaen’s Later Piano Music: Two Pieces from Petites esquisses d’oiseaux

* * * lunch * * *

2.00-3.45: Session 9

Marilyn Nonken (New York University)

Messiaen to Murail, or, what sounds become

Roderick Chadwick (Royal Academy of Music)

La Fauvette des jardins and the “spectral frame of mind”

Jonathan W Bernard (University of Washington)

Messiaen’s Synaesthesia: A follow-up report

* * * break * * *

4.15pm: Keynote Address

François-Bernard Mâche

* * * break for dinner * * *

7.45pm: Concert (St Chad's Cathedral)

Dame Gillian Weir

Méditations sur le Mystère de la Sainte Trinité

Tuesday 24 June

9.15-10.45: Session 10

Siglind Bruhn (University of Michigan)

Veiling and Revealing in Light and Music: Olivier Messiaen’s Oratorio on the Transfiguration

Robert Fallon (Bowling Green State University)

Theology of Creation and Light in Messiaen’s Form and Harmony, 1960–74

 

Stephen Broad (Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama)

Messiaen and Modern L’art sacré

* * * break * * *

 

11.15-12.00: Special Session

Peter Hill (University of Sheffield)

Messiaen and birdsong in the 1950s

* * * short break * * *

12.15-1.00: Special Session

Dame Gillian Weir - public interview

* * * lunch * * *

1.45-2.30: Round Table and Closing remarks