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Program: Mendelssohn Network Preconference

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    • 23 October 2023 at 4:47 pm EDT #74272

      Laura Stokes
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      @stokesla

      Hello everyone,

      The program and schedule for our preconference is below.  We will need a headcount for the dinner; more information on that shortly.

      The Mendelssohn Network: Pre-AMS Fringe Conference

      November 8–9, 2023 Lamont School of Music, University of Denver  

      SCHEDULE

      WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 8 15.00–16.30

      SESSION 1: ANALYSIS AND PRACTICE 

      CHAIR: Joe Davies            

      Tim Parker-Langston (Royal Opera House; Goldsmiths, University of London) 

      Making Noise: Musical activism & Fanny Hensel’s Lieder Repertoire            

      Tekla Babyak (Independent Scholar) 

      Fanny Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn, and Histories of Plagal Disability

      Ryan McClelland (University of Toronto)

      Thematic Reprise in Hensel’s Ternary Form Instrumental Music 

      16.30–17.00 BREAK

      17.00–18.30 SESSION 2:  THE MENDELSSOHNS AND POLITICS

      CHAIR: Monika Hennemann  

      Helmut Reichenbächer (OCAD University)

      From Dreams to Nightmares: the Critical Reception of Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream Music in the Political Context of the Third Reich

      Laura K. T. Stokes (Brown University)

      Fanny Hensel’s Lied “Der Fürst vom Berge” in Light of Contemporary European Politics

      Marian Wilson Kimber (University of Iowa) 

      “Not Without a Grievance”: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the Suffrage Movement, and the Reception of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

      19.00 CONFERENCE DINNER  

      Root Down, 1600 W 33rd Ave, Denver, CO 80211 (Tbc)orTrue Food Kitchen, 2800 E 2nd Ave, Unit 101, Denver, CO 80206 (19:45 or 20:00; Tbc) 

       

      THURSDAY NOVEMBER 9

      09.30–11.00 SESSION 3: RECEPTION

      CHAIR: Laura K. T. Stokes  

      Sanna Pederson (University of Oklahoma) 

      Two of a Kind? Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer

      Jeffrey S. Sposato (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

      With Friends Like These: Mendelssohn, A.B. Marx, and Handel’s Israel in Egypt

      Heather Platt (Ball State University)

      The Mendelssohns’ Lieder in Nineteenth-Century America

      11.00–11.30 BREAK  

      11.30–12.15 LECTURE-RECITAL

      INTRODUCTION: Valerie Woodring Goertzen 

      Kenneth Hamilton (Cardiff University): A Pianistic Postlude 

      12.15–13.00: CLOSING DISCUSSION                  

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