Goethe + Music

catho_monster

just thought i'd let ye know that there is a conference on in NUI Maynooth over the 26th and 27th March (ie tomorrow and saturday) on Goethe - Musical Poet, Musical Catalyst

It's only 20 yoyos and includes food and concerts on both days.It's well worth going to.

registration is at 8.45am tomorrow (friday morning).

Information:

Goethe: Musical Poet. Musical Catalyst


Bewerunge Room, Department of Music,
Maynooth, Co Kildare
26 and 27 March 2004


North-South Collaboration between the Department of Music, Maynooth, Co.
Kildare and the School of Music, Queen's University Belfast
Funded by ADM/CPA Implementing Body for the EU Programme of Peace and
Reconciliation


Friday 26 March 2004
8.45am: Registration
9.00am: Official Opening and Welcome
Prof. Gerard Gillen (Head of Department of Music, NUI
Maynooth)


Goethe and Music
Chair: Dr Barra Boydell (Department Of Music, NUI Maynooth)


9.10am: Prof. Otto Biba (Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna): The
Presence of Goethe's Work in the Viennese, Austrian, Hapsburg Music Scene in
the late 18th and early 19th century.
Eberl, 'Meeresstille und Glückliche Fahrt'
Krufft, 'Lied aus Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahren'
'Trost in Thränen'


Czerny, 'Das Geheimnis'
'Des Mädchens Klage'
'Der Erlkönig'
Dietrichstein, 'An die Entfernte'
'Nähe des Geliebten'
'Wandrers Nachtlied'
Tomaschek, 'Mignons Sehnsucht'
Colette Boushell (soprano)& Una McMahon (mezzo)
Dearbhla Collins (piano)


10.00am: Prof. Jan Smaczny (School of Music, The Queen's University of
Belfast): Goethe and the Czechs.
Tomaschek, 'Heidenröslein', op.53
'Mignons Sehnsucht', op.54, no.1
'Die Bekehrte', op.54, no.3
'Frühzeitiger Frühling',
op.54, no.4
'Erlkönig', op.59, no.1
Una McMahon (mezzo)
Dearbhla Collins (piano)


11.00am: Coffee.


11.15am: Dr Lorraine Byrne (Department of Music, NUI Maynooth): The
Goethe-Zelter Letters: Musical Implications.
Carl Friedrich Zelter, 'Wandrers Nachtlied'
'Rastlose Liebe'
Una McMahon (mezzo)
Dearbhla Collins (piano)


The Music of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy College Chapel
12.15pm: Recital: Prof. Gerard Gillen (organ).
Nachspiel in D (1831)
Prelude in c (1841)
Fugue in C (1839)
Sonata in A, op.65 no.3
Sonata in B Flat, op.65 no.4


1.15pm: Lunch (Pugin Hall).


Goethe, Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
Chair: Prof. Moray McGowan (Head of Department of Germanic Studies, Trinity
College Dublin)


2.30pm: Keynote Address: Prof. Nicholas Boyle (Department of German,
University of Cambridge): Thealogy: Gods, Goddesses, and Wilhelm Meisters
Lehrjahre in Goethe's Religious Development.



Goethe's Mignon
Prof. Harry White (Head of Department of Music, University College Dublin)
4.00pm: 'The Wondrous Child: Mignon's Story'. Dramatic Reading by Peter
Jankowsky.


5.15pm: Buffet Supper (Pugin Hall).


Schumann's Requiem für Mignon St Mary's Church of Ireland, Maynooth
6.15pm: Dr Julian Horton (Department of Music, University College Dublin):
Schumann's Requiem für Mignon and the Concept of Music as Literature.


Schumann Requiem für Mignon from Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
(op.98b)
I Soloist and Choir: 'Wen bringt ihr uns zur
stillen Gesellschaft'
II Soloists (Soprano I and Alto I): 'Ach wie
ungern brachten wir ihn her'
III Soloists and Choir: 'Seht die mächtigen
Flügel doch an'
IV Soloists and Choir: 'In euch lebe die
bildende Kraft'
V Soloists and Choir: 'Kinder, kehret in's
Leben züruck'
VI Soloists and Choir: 'Kinder! eilet in's
Leben hinan'


North South Performers:
Queen's Consort & Maynooth Chamber Choir
Helen Kearns (soprano),
Toni Walsh (soprano),
Niamh O' Hanlon (alto),
Cliodhna McDonogh (alto),
John Malloy (baritone),
Accompanied by Frances Kelleher.
Conducted by Colman Pearce.


7.30 pm: Coffee.


Mignon and the Harper Bewerunge Room, Department of Music, Maynooth
8.00pm: Seóirse Bodley: Mignon and the Harper
(First performance, commissioned for the
conference.)


I 'An die Türen' (Harper)
II 'Hei? mich nicht reden' (Mignon)
III 'Wer nie sein Brot' (Harper)
IV 'Kennst du das Land?' (Mignon)
V 'Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt' (Harper)
VI 'So la?t mich scheinen' (Mignon)
VII 'Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt' (Mignon and
the Harper)


Kathleen Tynan (soprano),
Sam McElroy (baritone),
Dearbhla Collins (piano).


Short pre-concert talk by the composer at 8.00pm.


9.00pm: Wine Reception.




Saturday 27 March 2004


Goethe and Music
Chair: Prof. Gerard Gillen (Head of Department of Music, NUI Maynooth)
9.00am Dr Gareth Cox (Head of Mary Immaculate College, University of
Limerick): Blumengruss und Blumenglöckchen: Goethe's Influence on Anton
Webern.
Webern, 'Blumengruss'
'Gleich und Gleich'
Mairead Buicke (soprano)
Dearbhla Collins (piano)



10.15am: Briony Williams (Royal Academy of Music, London): Maker, Mother,
Muse: Bettine von Arnim, Goethe and the Boundaries of Creativity.
Bettine von Arnim, 'An Luna'
'Ach neige du Schmerzenreiche'
Anna Devin (soprano)
Dearbhla Collins (piano)



11.00am: Coffee.


Goethe and Beethoven
11.15pm: Prof. Moray McGowan (Head of Department of Germanic Studies,
Trinity College Dublin): 'Fidelio' and 'Faust' in the German 'Wende' of
1989/90.


12.15pm: Lunch.


1.15pm Recital: Schubert: Quartet for Flute, Guitar, Viola and Cello (D96)
John Feeley (guitar), William Dowdell (flute), William Butt (cello) and
John Lynch (viola). Schubert: 15 Original Dances for Flute or Violin and
Guitar (D365) (Bill Dowdell and John Feeley).


Goethe and Beethoven
Chair: Prof. Jan Smaczny (School of Music, The Queen's University of
Belfast)


2.15pm: Dr Amanda Glauert (Royal Academy of Music, London): Ich denke dein':
Beethoven's Retelling of Goethe's Poetry.
Beethoven, 'Kennst du das Land', op.75, no.1
Reichardt, 'Ich denke dein'
Beethoven/ Erk-Boehme, 'Ich denke dein'
Beethoven, Six Variations on 'Ich denke dein', woo74
Colette Boushell (soprano)
Frances Kelleher (piano)
Adele Commins (piano)


3.15pm: Dr Claus Canisius (Badisches Konservatorium, Karlsruhe): Göthe and
Beethowen: Men of Genius between Distance and Affinity.
Beethoven, 'Marmotte' op.52, no.7
Beethoven, 'Mailied', op.52, no.4
Colette Boushell (soprano)
Frances Kelleher (piano)

4.30pm: Wine Reception.


Cadenza for a Conference
5.15pm: Dr Alison Hood (Music Department, NUI Maynooth): piano
Beethoven, Bagatelles, op.119, nos.1, 3 & 4


5.20pm: Cadenza for a Conference. Micheal O' Siadhail: Hopscotch: A
Meditation on Boundaries


7.30pm: Conference Dinner in the Glenroyal Hotel, Maynooth.


Booking Information
The conference fee is EUR20.00 to include the costs of tea/coffee/lunch and
entrance to all concerts.
An additional cost of dinner in the Glenroyal Hotel, Maynooth (excluding
wine) is EUR25.00.

dod

That looks well worth going to catho_monster. Can't make it unfortunately. If you go, do let us know how it went.

catho_monster

dod, it was phenominal. as opposed to the 'usual' musicological conferences that are all academic, the organiser Dr Lorraine Byrne of NUIM arranged it so that each seminar had it's corresponding concert (so it was like live musical examples). it was really something special.

pity none of ye turned up, was a fantastic oppertunity (see i know this coz i was over registration!!!)

ah well, ill keep posting on these events and hopefully someone will get some good outta it.

dod

The programme looked quite good alright. I know Dearbhla Collins and Sam McElroy from some performances I've been at with them - they are worth seeing. Obviously we all know Seoirse Bodley and Coleman Pearce. I've heard of some of the academics, but I can't claim to know a lot about them.

It certainly looked like a very interesting programme. At least one of us got to see it!

catho_monster

At least one of us got to see it!

i wish!!

it was held in my department, and lorraine byrne is one of my tutors, so i was helping out on the adminstrative end of it.

i only got to see twoof the seminars:(

but i did hear the rehersals of the music, and know the reputations of most of the academics, so i know it really was great.

next time. next time, i tell ya. i'll be there with bells on.