[AMS-announce] CONF: American Beethoven Society, San Jose, 27-29 July 2007

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Dear members of the AMS:

I'd like to invite everyone to come to San Jose later this month for the second biannual convention for the members of the American Beethoven Society. The program consists of presentations and concerts by members of the Society and its advisory board, both musicologists and non-musicologists. I've attached a short version of the program below. If you'd like to see the full program with abstracts, please email me.

American Beethoven Society Second Biannual Convention
“Rethinking Beethoven” July 27-29, 2007

Schedule of Events includes:

F r i d a y,  J u l y 2 7

3:30            Welcome from ABS President James Hawley
3:30-4:20       Patricia Stroh, Curator, Beethoven Center: “Unlocking the Vault: An Exploration of Treasures from the Beethoven Center’s collection
4:30-5:30       Dr. William Meredith: “Beethoven and the Broadwood Fortepiano: Information on His Familiarity with English Instruments”
7:00-9:00       Opening Banquet (University Room)

S a t u r d a y,  J u l y 2 8

9:30-10:00      Dr. Donna Beckage, Getty Research Institute: “Beethoven: Close Encounters of the Word Kind”
10:00-10:30 Adriana Ratsch-Rivera, Contra Costa College: “Motivic Relationships between the Fifth Symphony and Works from the Bonn Period”
10:45-11:45     Lecture-recital by Janine Johnson, fortepianist, harpsichordist, and builder: “The Rivalry between the Fortepiano and the
Harpsichord in the 18th Century”
2:00-2:30 Dr. Ernest Bergel, emeritus faculty, Harvard Medical School: “What Did Fidelio Mean to Beethoven?”
2:30-3:00 Dr. Frederick Skinner, emeritus faculty University of Montana: “From Tsar to Commissar:  How the Russians Have Heard Beethoven”
3:15-4:15: KEYNOTE SPEECH IN MEMORY OF IRA F. BRILLIANT: Dr. Owen Jander, emeritus faculty, Wellesley College: “Alexander Pope’s
‘Ode: The Dying Christian to His Soul’: The Inspiration for Beethoven’s ‘Süßer Ruhegesang oder Friedensgesang,’ the Lento assai, cantante
tranquillo of His Swansong String Quartet, Opus 135” 
4:15-5:15       The Cypress String Quartet in Recital
       Haydn: “Russian” String Quartet in G Major, Opus 33, no. 5
       Beethoven String Quartet in F Major, Opus 135

S u n d a y,  J u l y  2 9
9:00 -12:00             Beethoven Movie Mini-Festival in Program Room (Center)
9:00-11:10 “Eroica­The Day that Changed Music Forever.” Opus Arte 2004 BBC film directed by Nick Dear with Ian Hart as Beethoven. 129 minutes.
11:20-12:00 “Beethoven: Triumph over Silence” by Dr. Victor Goodhill (Ear surgery, UCLA School of Medicine)
11:20-12:00 “Beethoven’s Skull Bones”­a presentation by Paul and Joan Kaufmann

2:00-2:30 Dr. John Clubbe, emeritus faculty, Duke University: “Napoleon and Fidelio”
2:30-3:00       Dr. L. Poundie Burstein, Associate Professor, Hunter College: “‘Brüder auf!’: Beethoven’s Op. 81a and the Battles of 1809”
3:45-4:30       KEYNOTE LECTURE-RECITAL
Dr. Susan Kagan, President, New York chapter of the American Beethoven Society; emerita professor, Hunter College: “Ferdinand Ries, Forerunner of the Romantic Piano Sonata.”

William Rhea Meredith, PhD
Director, The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies
Professor, School of Music and Dance
William.Meredith at sjsu.edu
<www.sjsu.edu/depts/beethoven/>