[AMS-announce] CFP: First International Conference of Messiaen Studies, Toowoomba, Australia, March 29-April 1, 2008

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The First International Conference of Messiaen Studies will be held 
to celebrate the centenary of Messiaen's birth. Guest speakers will 
include Prof. Graham Hair (Glasgow), Prof. Larry Sitsky (Canberra), 
Dr Mark Carroll (Adelaide) and Prof. Marc Battier (Paris). There will 
be several concerts of Messiaen's music, including piano recitals by 
Michael Kieran-Harvey and Larry Sitsky and an organ recital by Phillip Gearing.

The conference will be held in Toowoomba, Australia, March 29-April 
1, 2008 - in the mountains one and a half hours west of Brisbane. 
Toowoomba is a lovely historic town with beautiful views, less than 
two hours drive from the Gold Coast.

Proposal Guidelines: Call for papers for inclusion within the 
following Sessions:
(1) Messiaen in Australia,
(2) Messiaen's musical language,
(3) Messiaen and spirituality
(4) Other (ornithology, technology, biography etc.)

The papers should be 20 minutes in length and formatted for inclusion 
within conference proceedings. The conference panel will select 
papers for possible further publication in the form of an edited book 
to be compiled later in 2008.

Please submit 500 word proposals by the 16th December, 2007 to Dr 
Judith Crispin - crispin at usq.edu.au
More information: http://www.publicmemory.org