INTERNATIONAL MUSICOLOGICAL SYMPOSIUM

Theme:

NEW MUSIC IN THE “NEW” EUROPE BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS

Head of Symposium: Jernej Weiss

Open to the public

Saturday, 18 March

At 9.15 am

Welcome speeches:   

Darko Brlek  (Director and Artistic Director of Ljubljana Festival and President of the European Festivals Association)

Jernej Weiss (Head of the Musicological Symposium)

At 9.30 am

Keynote lecture

John Tyrrell (Cardiff): Janáček’s Maestoso: Reflections on From the House of the Dead (1928)

At 10.00 am

Chairman: Primož Kuret

Helmut Loos (Leipzig): Holy sobriety. Composer in the modern era. Continuity instead of discontinuity

Peter Andraschke (Giessen): Diversity of Modernism. Music days in Donaueschingen and Baden-Baden in the 1920s

Hartmut Krones (Vienna): Speaking and „Sprechgesang“ as a way of expressing socially critical message in the music between the world wars

At 11.30 am

Chairman: Danijela Špirić-Beard

Pauline Fairclough (Bristol): Leningrad in the European Mainstream, 1922-1941

Darja Koter (Ljubljana): The ideological and artistic identity of youth choirs between the wars

At 2.30 pm

Chairman: Ivan Florjanc

Danijela Špirić-Beard (Cardiff): Sounding Zenitism: Modernity, Balkanism and Josip Slavenski 

Zdravko Drenjančević (Osijek): New approaches in music based on Slavonian melos among Croatian composers in the period between the two world wars

Monday, 20 March

Presentation of the sicientific results of the project “The Stylistic and Compositional-Technical Diversity of Slovenian Music from 1918 to the Present Day in the Light of Social Changes”  (Slovenian Research Agency)

At 11.00 am

Chairman: Gregor Pompe

Jurij Snoj (Ljubljana): Essayistic writing on music in Slovenia between the two wars

At 11.30 am

Chairman: Jurij Snoj

Niall O’Loughlin (Loughborough): Slavko Osterc’s Compositional Journey and his Assimilation of New Techniques

Gregor Pompe (Ljubljana): Slavko Osterc and Lucijan Marija Škerjanc: aesthetic division and poetic brotherhood

 At 2.30 pm

Chairman: Nada Bezić

Lubomír Spurný (Brno): Work and performance: A few comments on the Czech modern music

Jernej Weiss (Ljubljana–Maribor): Alois Hába and Slovene students of composition at the State Conservatory in Prague

Karmen Salmič Kovačič (Maribor): On the polystylistic nature of classicist modernism following the revelation of the “Adornian fallacy” ‒ in examples from the works of Demetrij Žebre

At 4.00 pm

Chairman: Jernej Weiss

Andrej Misson (Ljubljana): Some thoughts on Slovene choral composition between the world wars

Nada Bezić (Zagreb): “Intimate musical evenings” (1923–1926) or How the Croatian Musical Society in Zagreb opened the door to modernity

Katarina Bogunović Hočevar, Ana Vončina (Ljubljana): The first decade of Radio Ljubljana – the medium, the institution and its ideology in the light of music

Tuesday, 21 March

At 10.00 am

Chairman: Andrej Misson

Luba Kyyanovska (Lviv): Ukrainian Music in the Interwar Period of Twenty Years: Between Modernism and Socialist Realism

Ivan Florjanc (Ljubljana): The creativity of the composers of the Primorska region during the Italian Fascist occupation – compositional, stylistic and social insight

Sara Zupančič (Ljubljana):  Kačji pastir – La Libellula: The musical multilingualism of Pavle Merkù’s opera