[AMS-announce] CONF: Invention and Convention: The Limits of Text and Performance, UC Berkeley, Apr. 28 2007

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Invention and Convention:
The Limits of Text and Performance

A Symposium in Honor of Wye J. Allanbrook & John H. Roberts

Saturday, 28 April, 9:30 AM-6 PM
Room 125 Morrison Hall
University of California, Berkeley


9:00-9:30 breakfast

9:30 Opening Remarks; Bonnie Wade, Chair, Department of Music

9:40-11:00
Mary Hunter (Bowdoin College),  "Mozart Opera Productions and History"

Richard Will (University of Viriginia), "Topoi in Performance"
coffee break

11:30-1:00
Gretchen Wheelock (Eastman School of Music), "Vocal Promiscuity in Don
Giovanni"

Katherine Bergeron (Brown University), "The Monotone of Sarah Bernhardt:
Performing Sincerity in Republican France"

LUNCH

2:30-4:00
Daniel Zager (Eastman School of Music), "'Venerable Relics': Sacred Music of
Orlando di Lasso in Nineteenth-Century England"

Donald Burrows (Open University), "Faithfulness to the Text: Has Handel
Composed an Aria in Ariodante?"
coffee break

4:30-6:00
Mary Davidson (emerita, Indiana University), "The Quest for 'Improvement' in
19th-Century American Musical Periodicals"

Graydon Beeks (Pomona College), "Some Thoughts on the Composition of Attilio
Ariosti's Cajo Marzio Coriolano"
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