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PROGRAMME
Sessions ‘a’ will take place in Room 1 and sessions ‘b’ in Room 2
Welcome speech, Keynote speeches and Closing remarks will take place in Room 1
Friday 1 July
9.00–10.00: Registration
10.00–10.30: Welcome Speech
10.30–12.00: Parallel Sessions
Session 1a: SOUTH EAST EUROPE I
Chair: Katy Romanou (University of Athens, European University of Cyprus)
10.30: Kostas Chardas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki): ‘On Common Ground (?): The Perception of Greek Antiquity by Different Strands of 20th-century Greek Music’
11.30: Melita Milin (Institute of Musicology, Belgrade): ‘Ideological Contexts of the Approaches to Ancient Greek Mythology in Contemporary Serbian Music’
Session 1b: GREEK ANTIQUITY CHOREOGRAPHED
Chair: George Vlastos (Polyphonia Journal)
10.30: Georgia Petroudi (European University of Cyprus): ‘Maurice Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé: Surpassing Obstacles’
11.00: Dominique Escande (University Paul Verlaine, Metz): ‘The Classical Ideal Revisited: Albert Roussel: Bacchus et Ariane, op. 43’
12.00–12.30: Coffee Break
12.30–13.30: Parallel Sessions
Session 2a: DRAMATIC APPROPRIATIONS IN 19TH-CENTURY GERMANY
Chair: Stefan Schmidl (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
12.30: Lorraine Byrne Bodley (National University of Ireland Maynooth): ‘From Mythology to Social Politics: Goethe’s Proserpina with Music by Carl Eberwein’
13.00: Peter Tregear (Monash University): ‘Constructions of Antiquity and the Greek Struggle for Independence in Beethoven’s The Ruins of Athens (1811-1826)’
Session 2b: MYTH, POETRY & MUSIC IN EARLY 20TH-CENTURY RUSSIA
Chair: Marina Frolova Walker (University of Cambridge)
12.30: Christoph Flamm (Universität des Saarlandes): ‘Masks and Realities: Greek Mythology in Russian Symbolism’
13.00: Philip Bullock (University of Oxford): ‘Hellenic Lyricism and the Early-Twentieth- Century Russian Art-Song’
13.30–15.00: Lunch Break
15.00–16.00: Keynote Speech
Chair: Philip Bullock (University of Oxford)
Marina Frolova Walker (University of Cambridge): ‘Inventing Ancestry, Imagining Antiquity: Classical Greece in Russian Music’
16.00–17.00: Parallel Sessions
Session 3a: IBERIAN HELLENISM
Chair: Jim Samson (Royal Holloway, University of London)
16.00: Michael Christoforidis (University of Melbourne): ‘Echoes of Greece in fin-de- siècle Barcelona’
16.30: Teresa Cascudo (Universidad de La Rioja): ‘Manuel de Falla’s Psyché (1924), or Music as the “Magic Art of Evocation”’
Session 3b: HUNGARIAN HELLENISM
Chair: Katerina Levidou (University of Oxford)
16.00: Ákos Windhager (University of Fine Arts, Budapest): ‘The Pan’s March in Style Hongrois – Edmund Mihalovich: Pan’s death’
16.30: Anna Dalos (Musicological Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences): ‘Nausicaa, Sappho and Other Women in Love: Zoltán Kodály’s Reception of Greek Antiquity (1906–1932)’
17.00–17.30: Coffee Break
17.30–18.30: Parallel Sessions
Session 4a: PEGGY GLANVILLE-HICKS & GREEK ANTIQUITY
Chair: Michael Christoforidis (University of Melbourne)
17.30: Mario Dobernig (University of Melbourne): ‘Peggy Glanville-Hicks’s Nausicaa (1961): Greek Issues in the Opera’
18.00: Suzanne Robinson (University of Melbourne): ‘Revoicing Sappho: A Collaboration between Peggy Glanville-Hicks and Lawrence Durrell’
Session 4b: ETHNOMUSICOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
Discussant: Pavlos Cavouras (University of Athens)
17.30: Maria Hnaraki (Drexel University): ‘Zeus Performed: Greek Mytho-Musicologies’
18.00: Harikleia Tsokani (Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences) – Haris Sarris (Technological Educational Institute of Epirus and University of Athens): ‘Cyclicity in Ecstatic Experience: Neo-platonic Philosophy and Modern Practice’
18.30–19.00: Break
19.00–20.50: Film screening: Electra, Scenario & Direction: Michael Cacoyannis (based on Euripides’ play) at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation (Room 1). Free entry.
Saturday 2 July
10.00–11.30: Parallel Sessions
Session 1a: 19TH-CENTURY ITALY & FRANCE: RECONSTRUCTION AND DECONSTRUCTION OF THE PAST
Chair: James Sobaskie (Mississippi State University)
10.00: Maria Birbili (Maison des Sciences de l’Homme): ‘The Perils of Reconstructing Ancient Greek Tragedy in Early 19th-century Neapolitan Opera: Mayr’s Medea in Corinto, Manfroce’s Ecuba, Rossini’s Ermione’
10.30: Katy Romanou (University of Athens, European University of Cyprus): ‘Disregarding the Ancient Greek Heritage’
11.00: Ana Stefanovic (Faculty of Music, Belgrade): ‘Berlioz’s Les Troyens: Nostalgia for the Antique Past’
Session 1b: 20TH-CENTURY GERMAN AND ITALIAN OPERA
Chair: Katerina Levidou (University of Oxford)
10.00: Jacomien Prins (University of Oxford): ‘The Search for a Lost Ancient Harmonic Paradise in Paul Hindemith’s Die Harmonie der Welt’
10.30: Isavella Stavridou (Freie Universität Berlin): ‘The Transformation of Classical Mythical Female Figures in Early Twentieth-century Opera’
11.00: Nicola Davico (Conservatorio Statale di Musica “G. Verdi”, Torino): ‘Dallapiccola and the Greek Legacy: A Dialogue between Ancient and Modern Times’
11.30–12.00: Coffee Break
12.00–13.30: Parallel Sessions
Session 2a: CENTRAL AND SOUTH EAST EUROPE
Chair: Melita Milin (Institute of Musicology, Belgrade)
12.00: Magdalini Kalopana (Polyphonia Journal): ‘The Reception of Greek Antiquity in D. Dragatakis’ Music’
12.30: Eva Mantzourani (Canterbury Christ Church University): ‘The Odysseus Myth Revisited: Exile and Homecoming in the Life and Music of Nikos Skalkottas’
13.00: Jim Samson (Royal Holloway, University of London): ‘What makes a hero? Enescu, Szymanowski and the Classical Plot’
Session 2b: THEORETICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES I
Chair: Ioannis Fulias (University of Athens, Polyphonia Journal)
12.00: Demetrios Lekkas (The Greek Open University): ‘Against Aristoxenos…’
12.30: Agamemnon Tentes (Independent scholar): ‘Modes of Receiving Antiquity by the “Great Theoreticon of Music” (ed.1832)’
13.30–15.00: Lunch Break
15.00–16.30: Parallel Sessions
Session 3a: FRANCE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH-CENTURY
Chair: Paulo F. de Castro (CESEM/Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
15.00: Christopher Moore (University of Ottawa): ‘Ancient Greek Culture and French Regional Identity: Opera at Béziers at the fin de siècle’
15.30: James Sobaskie (Mississippi State University): ‘The Audacity of Pénélope: A Modern Reimagination of Homer’s Heroine’
16.00: George Vlastos (Polyphonia Journal): ‘Socrate in Context: Satie’s View of Greek Antiquity’
Session 3b: THEORETICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES II
Chair: Markos Tsetsos (University of Athens)
15.00: Ana Petrov (University of Belgrade): ‘A Dionysian Aspect of Rationalization in Music. A Trace of Nietzsche in Max Weber’s Musikstudie’
15.30: Wai-Ling Cheong (The Chinese University of Hong Kong): ‘The Reception of Greek Rhythms in Oliver Messiaen’s Traité de rythme, de couleur, et d’ornithologie’
16.30–21.00: Break
21.00–23.00: Athens Symphony Orchestra concert at the Byzantine & Christian Museum. Free entry.
Sunday 3 July
10.00–11.30: Parallel Sessions
Session 1a: READING BETWEEN THE LINES: MUSIC AND POLITICS
Chair: Christopher Moore (University of Ottawa)
10.00: Alexandre Lhâa (Université de Provence): ‘Greek Antiquity and Napoleonic Propaganda: The Case of Alessandro in Armozia (1808)’
10.30: Alexandros Charkiolakis (Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri”): ‘The Promethean Myth as a Political Statement’
11.00: Johanna Frances Yunker (Stanford University): ‘Staging Operatic Myth as Political Protest: Les Troyens in Frankfurt, 1983’
Session 1b: SOUTH EAST EUROPE II
Chair: Eva Mantzourani (Canterbury Christ Church University)
10.00: Srđan Atanasovski (University of Arts, Belgrade): ‘Imagining the Sound of Serbian Sparta’
10.30: Demosthenes Fistouris (University of Athens): ‘The Opera Amphitryon by George Sklavos: A First Musical Analysis’
11.00: Valia Christopoulou (Independent scholar): ‘Modernism and Greek Antiquity in the Work of Yorgos Sicilianos’
11.30–12.00: Coffee Break
12.00–13.30: Parallel Sessions
Session 2a: MUSIC FOR GREEK DRAMA I
Chair: Gesine Schröder (University of Music & Theatre ‘Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’, Leipzig)
12.00: Anastasia Siopsi (Ionian University): ‘Ancient Greek Images in Modern Greek Frames: Readings of Antiquity in Music for Productions of Ancient Dramas and Comedies in 20th-century Greece’
12.30: Benjamin Capellari (École Normale Supérieure, Paris): ‘Music and the Delphic Idea (1927-1952)’
13.00: Andriana Soulele (University of Poitiers, GERHICO): ‘Writing Music for Ancient Greek Tragedy’s Representations in France and in Greece in the 20th Century: The Use of the Voice in Pierre Boulez’s Orestie (1955) and Jani Christou’s The Persians (1965)’
Session 2b: RUSSIANS ABROAD
Chair: Jonathan Cross (University of Oxford)
12.00: Tamara Levitz (UCLA): ‘Émigré Classicism’
12.30: Paulo F. de Castro (CESEM/Universidade Nova de Lisboa): ‘Nikolay Tcherepnin’s Narcisse and the Aesthetic Promise of Self-presence’
13.00: Katerina Levidou (University of Oxford): ‘A Dionysian Angel: Nietzschean Elements in Prokofiev’s Ognennii angel’
13.30–15.00: Lunch Break
15.00–16.00: Keynote Speech
Chair: Jim Samson (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Jonathan Cross (University of Oxford): ‘Dancing with Stravinsky: Greek Myth and the Representation of Loss’
16.00–16.30: Coffee Break
16.30–18.00: Parallel Sessions
Session 3a: MUSIC FOR GREEK DRAMA II
Chair: Anastasia Siopsi (Ionian University)
16.30: Manolis Seiragakis (University of Crete): ‘Rebetiko and Aristophanes: The Music Composed for Ecclesiazousae (1904 Nea Skini, Athens, Greece) by Theofrastos Sakellarides’
17.00: Gesine Schröder (University of Music & Theatre ‘Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’, Leipzig): ‘German Gymnasium, and Germinal Greek: Heinrich Bellermann’s Stage Music for Three Tragedies by Sophocles’
17.30: Ioannis Tselikas (Hellenic American University): ‘The Incidental Music of John Knowles Paine for Oedipus Tyrannus and The Birds’
Session 3b: MUSIC ON THE SCREEN
Chair: Maria Komninou (University of Athens) (tbc)
16.30: Nick Poulakis (University of Athens): ‘Spotting Amazons, Scoring Demigods: Television, Music and the Reception of Greek Antiquity’
17.00: Stefan Schmidl (Austrian Academy of Sciences): ‘Inventing Hellas. The Construction of Ancient Greece in Film Music’
17.30: Stella Voskaridou-Economou (Independent scholar): ‘A Musical Way to Myth: The Role of Music in the Cinematic Receptions of Greek Tragedy’
18.00–18.30: Closing Remarks
18.30–21.00: Break
21.00–23.00: Chamber music concert at the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation. Free entry.