Cambridge, Fitzwilliam College
An International Conference
to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of
Dmitry Dmitryevich Shostakovich
15/16/17 September 2006
Friday 15th September |
| Welcome address |
| Lewis Owens (President, UK Shostakovich Society) |
| Paper sesion: death and the late quartets (chair: Vladimir Orlov) |
| Kristian Hibberd (Goldsmiths College, University of London) 'Narrative structure in the Fifteenth Quartet: a chronotopic interpretation' Yulia Kreinin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 'Shostakovich's last quartets and Mahler's last symphonies: a farewell to the world or lust for life?' |
| Paper session: film music (chair: Erik Heine) |
| Hélène Bernatchez (University of Cologne) ‘Shostakovich and FEKS: the music to New Babylon and Odna’ John Riley (British Universities Film and Video Council) ‘“Hello Belinsky, do you know Michurin”: fulfilling expectations in the Soviet biopic’ |
| Performance |
| 'Unfinished' String Quartet String Quartet No. 9 in E flat major, op 117 The Fitzwilliam String Quartet |
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Saturday 16th September |
| Paper session: Shostakovich and Shakespeare (chair: John Riley) |
| Fiona Ford (University of Nottingham) ‘Ophelia’s music from Kozintsev’s film version of Hamlet: acknowledging its English origins’ Erik Heine (Oklahoma City University) ‘Shostakovich, King Lear and the concert hall?’ |
| Paper session: Shostakovich and the Soviet republics (chair: Tanya Ursova) |
| Aida Huseynova (Baku Music Academy) ‘Shostakovich and Azerbaijan’ |
| Paper session: Reception and collection in Britain (chair: Erik Levi) |
| Pauline Fairclough (University of Bristol) ‘The old Shostakovich: reception in Britain 1932-1992’ Derek Hulme (Scotland) ‘Pictures of the past: cataloguing Shostakovich’ |
| Workshop: String Quartet No. 7, op. 108 (chair Francis Maes) |
| Michael Mishra (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) ‘Shostakovich’s other autobiographical quartet? Narrative, modalism and personal allusion in the Seventh Quartet’ - Fitzwilliam String Quartet |
| Lecture-recital: Satirï, op.109, and Japanese Lyrics (fragments) (chair: Lewis Owens) |
| Svetlana Savenko (Moscow Conservatory) ‘The word in Shostakovich's music: on the evolution of his vocal writing’ |
| Paper session: song (chair: Marina Frolova-Walker) |
| Gilbert Rappaport (University of Texas at Austin) 'The poetics of word and music in Five Satires (Pictures of the Past), op. 109: representations through the prism of Russian cultural history 'Francis Maes (Universiteit Gent) 'Shostakovich and the Pushkin songs' |
| Lecture-recital: Sonata for Viola, op.147 (chair: Pauline Fairclough) |
| Erik Levi (Royal Holloway, University of London) and Alan George (Fitzwilliam String Quartet) |
| Keynote lecture (chair: Lewis Owens) |
| Levon Hakobian (Arts History Institute, Moscow) ‘The symbolism of twelve-tone rows in Shostakovich’s late music’ |
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Saturday 16th September |
| Concert |
| Preludes and Fugues, op. 87, Nos 23 and 24 String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, op. 122 Piano Quintet, op. 57 Colin Stone, Piano The Fitzwilliam String Quartet |
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Sunday 17th September |
| Paper session: Eros and Psyche (chair: Nathan Seinen) |
| Richard Pleak (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) ‘And it alone calms me: Shostakovich’s use of music for trauma resolution’ Vladimir Orlov (Clare College, University of Cambridge) 'Shostakovich and the Soviet eros: forbidden fruit in the realm of communal communism' |
| Paper session: instrumental music (chair: Michael Mishra) |
| Lyudmila German (New York, USA) 'The constructive role of folk song polyphony in the Fourth Symphony' Sofia Moshevich (Toronto, Canada) ‘Shostakovich and the piano' |
| Lecture-recital: 24 Preludes and Fugues, op.87 (chair: Lewis Owens) |
| Tanya Ursova (Goldsmiths College, University of London) ‘Shostakovich’s 24 Preludes and Fugues, op. 87: hidden aspects of performance interpretation’ |
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Sunday 17th September |
| Concluding performance |
| Alissa Firsova (Royal Academy of Music), Piano Piano Sonata No. 1 (opus 12) Aphorisms (opus 13) Piano Sonata 2 No. 2 (opus 61) |
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Henny & Egbert
16-03-2008