[AMS-announce] CFP: "Celebrating Haydn: His Times and Legacy, " York Univ., Toronto, Aug 2009

[Announcements for the AMS]

Call for Papers 

CELEBRATING HAYDN: HIS TIMES AND LEGACY

An international conference to commemorate the bicentenary of Joseph Haydn’s death 

Dates: August 6-9, 2009

Location:  York University, Toronto, Canada 

This interdisciplinary conference will create an opportunity to celebrate the music of  Joseph Haydn and to reflect on his legacy, influence, and reception over the past two hundred years.  With a prodigious output in all of the Classical era’s main genres, Haydn has been the focus of much serious scholarship throughout his life and continuing until the present day.  While there is already a wealth of extant research, the opportunity still exists to consider Haydn’s music and its reception even further. This conference will provide a forum for both internationally renowned Haydn scholars as well as emerging scholars to share their research in a lively and dynamic environment.   As this is an interdisciplinary conference, the organizers welcome paper proposals from a wide range of disciplines including, but not limited to, musicology, performance practice, theatre and dance history, drama, and literature.   

The programme for the conference will include evening concerts featuring the Penderecki String Quartet as well as fortepianist Malcolm Bilson.  There will be four plenary speakers including Julian Rushton (Professor Emeritus, University of Leeds), Elaine Sisman (Anne Parsons Bender Professor of Music, Columbia University), and Sigrid T’Hooft (dramaturg, choreographer-stage director, International Opera Foundation Eszterháza, Belgium), as well as a Roundtable, and 96 conference papers.  A banquet and off-campus events are also being planned.  

Scholars and performers are cordially invited to submit 250-word abstracts for papers or proposals for lecture-recitals for review by the programme committee to haydnconference at brocku.ca   .  Conference papers of 25 minutes and 50-minute lecture-recitals will be followed by  a 5-minute discussion period.  Deadline for submission of proposals:  Oct. 1, 2008.  The official languages of the conference are English and French. 

The conference organizers, Patricia Debly (Brock University) and Dorothy de Val (York University), look forward to welcoming you to this conference in August 2009. 

For further information and conference updates, please see the conference website:

http://www.brocku.ca/haydnconferenceyork/ 

“Celebrating Haydn: his Times and Legacy” has been approved to be one of the official sponsored events to celebrate York University’s 50th Anniversary. 

Please forward this announcement to any interested parties.  Thank you.