[AMS-announce] CONF: Bartók's String Quartets: Tradition and Legacy, University of Victoria, Sept. 2008

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The School of Music at the University of Victoria will host a symposium entitled "Bartók's String Quartets: Tradition and Legacy" on September 19-21, 2008.  A group of internationally recognized music theorists, musicologists, performers, and composers from Canada, the USA, and Hungary will consider the imprint of folk and classical traditions on Bartók's string quartets, and the ways in which his quartets influenced those of later Hungarian composers (Ligeti, Kurtág, and Jeney). The participation of the Lafayette String Quartet, Artists in Residence at the University of Victoria, as well as of the composer Zoltán Jeney, will result in a unique opportunity for dialogue between scholars, performers, and composers.  

For further information, please contact the organizers, Harald Krebs hkrebs at finearts.uvic.ca and Dániel Bíro dpbiro at finearts.uvic.ca