From Fin de Siecle to Fascism: Music in Italian Culture

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Calendar Event: June 28, 2004 - June 29, 2004

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From Fin de Siecle to Fascism: Music in Italian Culture, 1900-1950

St John's College, Oxford -- 28-29 June 2004

The draft programme for the conference is as follows. Those interested in
attending are requested to apply for a booking form to Alexandra Wilson
(alexandra.wilson@music.ox.ac.uk) by 21 June 2004.

Monday 28 June 2004

2.00: WELCOME

2.15-3.45: Session 1

HISTORY
Chair: Erik Levi (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Stefano Castelvecchi (St John‚s College, Cambridge): "Verdi the Fascist"

Jane Dunnett (Royal Holloway, University of London): "Perpetuating the
'Myth of Rome' in Fascist Italy: The Example of Malipiero's Giulio
Cesare".

Franco Sciannameo (Carnegie Mellon University): "In Black and White:
Mussolini, Pizzetti, and the Film Scipione l'Africano".

3.45-4.00 TEA


4.15-5.45: Session 2

GENDER
Chair: Alexandra Wilson (Worcester College, Oxford)

Helen Greenwald (New England Conservatory): "Bloody Moons: Puccini's
Turandot in the Context of Fin-de-Siecle Exoticism, Eroticism, and
Illusion".

Susan Rutherford (University of Manchester): "'Finito il teatro, e` finito
tutto': Emma Carelli and the Teatro Costanzi 1912-1926".

David Osmond-Smith (University of Sussex): "The masculine gesture:
Petrassi and the visual arts".

5.45-6.00 BREAK


6.00-6.45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Pierluigi Petrobelli (La Sapienza, Rome)


7.15 DINNER
8.30 CONCERT: Sandro Ivo Bartoli and Robert Keeley (piano)

Alfredo Casella, Pagine di guerra (1915)
Gian Francesco Malipiero, Maschere che passano (1918)
Alfredo Casella, Sonatina (1916)
Giorgio Federico Ghedini, Divertimento contrappuntistico (1940)
Alfredo Casella, Sinfonia, Arioso e Toccata (1936)



Tuesday 29 June 2004

9.15-10.45: Session 3

MODERNISM
Chair: Ben Earle (St John's College, Oxford)

Bojan Bujic (Magdalen College, Oxford): "D'Annunzio and Malipiero in
pursuit of Monteverdi's greatness".

Francesco Parrino (Royal Holloway, University of London): "Casella,
Canudo, Stravinsky and the Montjoie! Affair".

Roberto Illiano (Fondazione-Stichting P.A. Locatelli, Cremona):
"Orchestral instrumentation in Dallapiccola".

10.45-11.00 COFFEE

11.00-1.00: Session 4

POPULAR MUSIC
Chair: Roger Parker (St John's College, Cambridge)

Simona Frasca (Universita di Roma, La Sapienza/Universita di Napoli,
Federico II): "Memory of the oblivion: the untold story of the Neapolitan
musicians in New York (1900-1935)".

Massimiliano Sala (Fondazione-Stichting P.A. Locatelli, Cremona) and
Roberta Baldizzone (Cremona): "The Debate on 'Gez'".

Emanuela Abbadessa (University of Catania): "The Italian song in the
Fascist Ventennio between 'mammismo' and 'superomismo'.

Annie Janeiro Randall (Bucknell University): "Whose Primavera? Song as
Site of Ideological Conflict in Italy 1943-1945 and After".

1.00-2.00 LUNCH

2.00-3.30: Session 5

D'ANNUNZIO
Chair: Emanuele Senici (St Hugh's College, Oxford)

Gary Tomlinson (University of Pennsylvania): tbc.

Vincenzo Borghetti (Cremona): "Words as Music?: D'Annunzio's Dramaturgy
and D'Annunzian Opera".

Giuseppe Montemagno (Observatoire Musical Francais, Universite de Paris -
Sorbonne, Paris IV): "Beyond the grille. The mort parfumee from La
Pisanelle to Suor Angelica".

3.30-3.45 TEA

3.45-5.15: Session 6

AVANT GARDE
Chair: Charles Wilson (Cardiff University)

Luciano Chessa (University of California, Davis): "A Futurist Looking
Back: the Influence of the Occult Tradition on Russolo's Futurist Phase".

Jonathan Impett (University of East Anglia): "Accelerated Learning: Luigi
Nono and the Study of Composition 1943-49".

Gregory N. Reish (Roosevelt University): "Giacinto Scelsi's Modernist
Experimentation".