Focus on Piano Literature: Paris in the 1920s

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(All events in School of Music Recital Hall unless otherwise indicated)

Thursday, June 5

Friday, June 6

Saturday, June 7

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Thursday, June 5, 2008

9:00 a.m.	Registration (Second Floor Atrium)
10:00 a.m.	Welcoming remarks, Dean John Deal
10:15 a.m.	Lecture, Paul Stewart: “Americans in Paris”
11:00 a.m.	Lecture, John Salmon: “Daniel Ericourt: UNCG’s Link to Paris in the 1920s”
11:45 a.m.	Break: Lunch on your own
1:15 p.m.	Lecture, William Goode: “Paris in the 20th Century: The Close of the Belle Epoque”
2:00 p.m.	Lecture-recital, James Douglass and Hope Koehler “ Paris’s Popular Music and Poulenc’s Mélodies”
2:45 p.m.	Break
3:15 p.m.	Lecture, Keith Waters: “1920s Paris and the Art of the Everyday: Jazz, Neoclassicism, and Postwar Modernism”
4:00 p.m.	Presentation: Dalyn Cook: "Satie’s Sports et Divertissements (1914)"
4:30 p.m.	Presentation: Yong Im Lee: “A Chilean in Paris: Allende’s 12 Tonadas (1918-22)”
5:00 p.m.	Break
6:30 p.m.	Welcoming Reception (Recital Hall Atrium)
8:00 p.m.	UNCG School of Music Concert
	Falla: Harpsichord Concerto (1923-26) Andrew Willis, harpsichord Deborah Egekvist, flute Ashley Barret, oboe Kelly Burke, flute John Fadial, violin Beth Vanderborgh, violoncello Ravel: Frontispice (1918) Juan Pablo Andrade, piano Elizabeth Loparits, piano Dalyn Cook, piano Gershwin: An American in Paris (1928) Juan Pablo Andrade, piano Elizabeth Loparits, piano Ravel: La Valse (1920) Vincent van Gelder, piano Inara Zandmane, piano

Friday, June 6, 2008

8:00 a.m.	Registration (Second Floor Atrium)
9:00 a.m.	Lecture, Kelly Gordon: “A ‘Plant [Discusses] Horticulture:' the Complicated Machinery of Jean Cocteau’s ‘Poésie de Théatre’”
9:45 a.m.	Break
10:00 a.m.	Lecture, Ann Dils: “Paris Dancing in the 1920s: Bricktop, Baker, and Ballet”
10:45 a.m.	Break
11:00 a.m.	Mini-concert:
	Poulenc Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano (1926) Ashley Barret, oboe; Michael Burns, bassoon; Inara Zandmane, piano Tansman Sonatine for Flute and Piano (1925) Tadeu Coelho, flute; James Douglass, piano
11:45 a.m.	Break
12:00 p.m.	Luncheon, Spencer’s, Second Floor, Dining Hall (reservations required)
1:30 p.m.	Jerome Lowenthal Master Class: Participants and Repertoire TBA
3:00 p.m.	Break
3:15 p.m.	Lecture, Porter Aichele (Art): “Synesthesia and Simultaneity in the Visual Arts”
4:00 p.m.	Lecture, Anthony Cuda (English): “Old Possum and the Parisian Literary Scene, 1922”
4:30 p.m.	Break: dinner on your own
8:00 p.m.	UNCG School of Music Concert
	Saint-Saëns: Fugues in G major and G minor, Op. 161, Nos. 3 and 6 (1920) Tailleferre: Pastorale from Album des Six (1919) Ravel: Pièce en forme de Habanera, (1907, transcribed Ericourt 1926) Ericourt: Mechanic (1929), Fantaisie (1926), Pièce en forme de Rag (1924) John Salmon, piano Stravinsky: Piano-Rag-music (1919) Szymanowski: Mazurkas, Op. 50, Nos. 3 and 4 (1924-26) Poulenc: Nocturne #1 (1929) Martinu: Czech Dance #3 (Polka) (1926) Andrew Willis, piano Roussel and Caplet: Selected Mélodies James Douglass, piano Hope Koehler, soprano Milhaud: Le Bœuf sur le Toit (The Nothing Doing Bar), Op. 58 (1919) music: John Salmon and Andrew Willis, piano scenario: Jean Cocteau choreography/restaging: Ann Dils and Cast direction: Kelly Gordon design: Fritz Janschka props and costumes: students from UNCG Department of Theatre roles: students from UNCG Departments of Dance and Theatre
9:30 p.m.	Reception (Recital Hall Atrium)

Saturday, June 7, 2008

9:00 a.m.	Registration (Weatherspoon Art Museum lobby)
9:30 a.m.	Group A: Video: “Montparnasse Revisited: The Composers” (Weatherspoon Lecture Hall)
	Group B: Weatherspoon Gallery Tour featuring Picasso Pochoirs and Matisse prints and bronzes (assemble in lobby)
10:30 a.m.	Break
10:45 a.m.	Group A: Weatherspoon Gallery Tour featuring Picasso Pochoirs and Matisse prints and bronzes (assemble in lobby)
	Group B: Video: “Montparnasse Revisited: The Composers” (Weatherspoon Lecture Hall)
11:45 a.m.	Break: lunch on your own
1:15 p.m.	Audience/Panel discussion (Recital Hall)
2:45 p.m.	Break
3:00 p.m.	Paul Stewart: “Teaching the Composers of Paris in the 1920s”
	Suna Li, Grace Oh, Katie Yodis (Mary Alicia Cox) Zachary Ao, Lindsay Bastian, William Hueholt (Barbara Furr) April Dai, Sara Lee, Brendan Shi (Diane Higgins) Nicholas Allgeier, Richard He, Celia Henderson (John Ruggero) Justin Morrell, Lily Yuan (Tanya Smirnov) Richard Lu, Melina Smith, Ying-Ao Zhang (Mary Elizabeth Turner) Danning Ge (Vincent van Gelder)
4:15 p.m.	Break
5:30 p.m.	Banquet, Spencer’s, Second Floor, Dining Hall (reservations required)
8:00 p.m.	Guest Artist Recital: Jerome Lowenthal, piano
	Poulenc: Aubade (1929) Stravinsky: Sonata (1924) Milhaud: 3 Saudades do Brasil (1920-21) Fauré: Nocturne #13 in B minor, Op. 119 (1922) Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin (1914-17)