[AMS-announce] CONF: "Music and Memory – Music as Memory," Harvard-Lyrica Dialogues 2008, Harvard University

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The Lyrica Society is pleased to announce its forthcoming Harvard-Lyrica Dialogues, 2008, themed:
Music and Memory – Music as Memory

Fridays: February 15, March 14, April 18 and May 9, 2008
4 – 6 PM  ·  Dudley House  ·  Lehman Hall  ·  Harvard Yard

Friday, February 15, 2008: Schubert, Schumann, Literary Notions, and Song: “Fragment” and “Apostrophe” in German Lieder
- Deborah Stein, New England Conservatory of Music
- Rufus Hallmark, Rutgers University

Friday, March 14, 2008: Death, Concentrated: Viktor Ullmann’s "Der Kaiser von Atlantis"
- Rachel Bergman, George Mason University
- Peter Laki, Bard College

Friday, April 18, 2008: In Memoriam Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) and Robert F. Kennedy 1925-1968)
World Première:  "And Music Will Not End" – Songs by Lori Laitman
- D’Anna Fortunato, mezzo-soprano
– Lori Laitman, piano

Friday, May 9, 2008: Revolution and Its Discontents: Bernanos, Poulenc and their "Dialogues of the Carmelites"
- Jann Pasler, University of California, San Diego
- Jeffrey Mehlman, Boston University
- Paul-André Bempéchat, Harvard University
- Mark DeVoto, Tufts University

Admission is free.  For further information, please contact us at lyricasociety at aol.com, citing Dialogues in the subject line.