At the meeting or the MSA opera study group at the National Conference last December members expressed interest in organising a symposium to coincide with the National Opera’s production of Alcina in Canberra in December 2022. It will be a significant production, dedicated to the memory of Dame Joan Sutherland, and Richard Bonynge (now patron of t…[Read more]

Please join us in person or online on Thursday 22 September for the University of Sydney’s 2022 Alfred Hook Lecture: “The Sovereign Ghost: Antonio Caldara and the Eclipses of Cultural History”, presented by Professor Harry White (University College Dublin).

Abstract: The Venetian composer Antonio Caldara (1670-1736) has endured an afterlife of a…[Read more]

The symposium Antonio Caldara (1670-1736) and the Performance of Power will be held on Zoom on Friday 23 and Saturday 24 September, 2022, hosted by the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney.

Antonio Caldara (1670-1736) was one of the pre-eminent composers of the late Baroque. Born in Venice, he was court composer to the Duke of…[Read more]

 
Conference
The Colour of Fire
Sinophone Performance across Australia and Cultural Exchange
Host: JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, University of Adelaide

Date: 3-4 November 2022

Weblink http://thecolouroffire.net

Sinophone performance across Australia has a rich history and cultural significance that has not been fully documented…[Read more]

Dear MSA Forum members

On behalf of the French Society of Musicology I would like to bring to your attention the following announcement:

Publication Grant—Margarita M. Hanson Fund (France)

The French Society of Musicology (Sfm) received in 2021 an important bequest from the Cuban-born British musicologist Margarita Menendez Hanson, who d…[Read more]

My new book is primarily a work of literary criticism about the British novelist Iris Murdoch and the music and sound in her novels. I discuss various examples of the way she deploys sound and silence, how music appears as a theme and so on. I also survey musical works setting her words, by composers including Malcolm Williamson and William…[Read more]

This two-day symposium will bring together interdisciplinary scholars and interpreters of music in rethinking how musical programs of the past might be meaningfully reimagined in the present. Contributors are invited to consider how contemporary scholarship offers new possibilities for staging musical concerts in ways that innovatively weave…[Read more]

The Routledge Companion to Jazz and Gender identifies, defines, and interrogates the construct of gender in all forms of jazz, jazz culture, and education, shaping and transforming the conversation in response to changing cultural and societal norms across the globe. Such interrogation requires consideration of gender from multiple viewpoints,…[Read more]

Dear MSA,

I am pleased to announce the recent publication of England’s Folk Revival and the Problem of Identity in Traditional Music (Routledge 2022). Details of the publication can be found here: https://www.routledge.com/Englands-Folk-Revival-and-the-Problem-of-Identity-in-Traditional-Music/Williams/p/book/9780367648152

There will be an o…[Read more]

Dear MSA colleagues

I am writing to alert you to the release, today, of my new book entitled The Symphony in Australia 1960-2020.  Published by Routledge, this book follows on from my previous work The Australian Symphony from Federation to 1960 (Ashgate/Routledge 2014), thus completing a comprehensive survey of the form as treated by Australian…[Read more]

Hello, Everyone–

My video file is too large to attach to this post, so here is the link to my social media post: https://twitter.com/ArunLuthra/status/1559252306738049026.

Can anyone point me in the direction of recordings, oral histories, writing, etc. on the type of songs which V. Sriram is talking about in this interview?  The video is an ex…[Read more]

Dear SMT-Rus members,

SMT plans to video-record all sessions this year, including interest groups. They will provide tripod and recording equipment in each room, with a rotating cast of volunteers to operate the cameras. We need to find a volunteer, a member of SMT-Rus who will attend the IG meeting (scheduled for Thursday 7:30 pm) and record it.…[Read more]

Dear MSA Forum members,

A message from the IMS:

On behalf of Barbara Dobbs Mackenzie, current Executive Director of RILM, we would like to bring to your attention the following announcement:

August 15, 2022—The Board of Directors of Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) is delighted to announce that Tina Frühauf, curr…[Read more]

Dear MSA colleagues,

We are delighted to announce our two keynote speakers for the 45th National Conference of the Musicological Society of Australia, to be held online 1–3 December, 2022:

Kate van Orden (Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Music, Harvard University; President of the International Musicological Society, 2022-2027): “Songs in Une…[Read more]