MUSIC CRITICISM – YESTERDAY AND TODAY

International Musicological Symposium

23. March - 24. March 2023
Julij Betetto Hall, Academy of Music and Knights' Hall Križanke
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Head of the Musicological Symposium: Jernej Weiss
Open to the public

Wednesday, 22 March

6.30 pm, Slavko Osterc Hall, Slovenian Philharmonic
LJILJANA DUBLJEVIĆ-VOJKIĆ: ANITA MEZE
Slovenian Music Days in honour of the Emeritus Professor Primož Kuret (1935–2022)
Pre-concert talk and representation of the publication
Translation: Primož Kuret
Moderates: Darja Koter
Guests: Tina Bohak Adam, Slavko Savinšek


Thursday, 23 March

8.30 am, The Julij Betetto Hall, Academy of Music
Welcome speeches:
Karolina Šantl Zupan (Vice-dean for scientific and researchartistic activity of Academy of Music in Ljubljana)
Jernej Weiss (Head of the Musicological Symposium)

8.45–10.00 am, The Julij Betetto Hall, Academy of Music
Keynote lectures:
Alex Ross (New York): Classical Music Criticism: An American Perspective (video)
Susanne Kogler (Graz): Innovation, Art, Society, and Life: Deliberations on Music Criticism’s Past, Presence and Future

11.00–11.50 am, Knights’ Hall, Križanke
Chairman: Helmut Loos
Hartmut Krones (Vienna): Hugo Wolf als Musikkritiker im “streitbaren” Wien der 1880er Jahre
Bianca Schumann (Vienna): “Katholische” Programmmusik? Franz Liszts Religiosität im Fokus der Wiener Presse (1855–1900) (video)

11.50–12.40 am, Knights’ Hall, Križanke
Chairman: Luba Kyanovska
Helmut Loos (Leipzig): Musik des Fortschritts und der Zukunft. Zu den Wurzeln einer heftigen Pressefehde in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts
Stefan Keym (Leipzig): Künstlerische vs. politische Aspekte von Musikkritik – Zur Rezeption “ausländischer” Orchesterwerke in der Leipziger Musikpresse des 19. Jahrhunderts

2.30–3.45 pm, Knights’ Hall, Križanke
Chairman: Susanne Kogler
Lucija Konfic (Zagreb): Music in Karlovac Press in the 19th century
Ivana Perković / Andjelka Zečević (Belgrade): Spiritual Concerts Between 1918 and 1941 Through the Eyes of Serbian Music Criticism: How can NLP Analysis Broaden our Musicological Discourse?

3.45–4.35 pm, Knights’ Hall, Križanke
Chairman: Wolfgang Marx
Viktor Velek (Ostrava): Emil Břetislav Lvovský or Who was the sharpest living critic that criticised the music of Antonín Dvořák? (video)
Niall O‘Loughlin (Loughborough): Putting Music Criticism to Positive Purpose: William Glock’s Promotion of Three Composers

4.50–5.40 pm, Knights’ Hall, Križanke
Chairman: Stefan Keym
Wolfgang Marx (Dublin): Irish Music Critics Before and After the Digital Revolution
Luba Kyanovska / Lidiya Melnyk (Lviv): Music journalism vs. music criticism today: surviving or thriving?


Friday, 24 March

9.00–10.00 am, Knights’ Hall, Križanke
Chairman: Jernej Weiss
Darja Koter (Ljubljana): Lucijan Marija Škerjanc – Critic of the Newspaper Jutro from 1927 to 1942

10.15–11.10 am, Knights’ Hall, Križanke
Chairman: Luisa Antoni
Jernej Weiss (Ljubljana–Maribor): “The Criticism of Criticism”: An Attempt to Outline More Appropriate Sociopolitical
Guidelines in Post-World War II Slovenian Music Criticism
Tjaša Ribizel Popič (Ljubljana): Symphonic Matinees of the
(Glasbena mladina) Musical Youth of Slovenia 1970–1991
Borut Smrekar (Celje): What is happening with music criticism?

11.30–12.30 pm, Knights’ Hall, Križanke
Chairman: Tjaša Ribizel Popič
Round table: Classical music criticism in Slovenia: today, tomorrow

3.00–4.30 pm, Knights’ Hall, Križanke
Chairman: Leon Stefanija
A round table and presentation of the new monographic publications: Why Women in Music?
Guests: Alma Bejtullahu, Iva Nenić, Lana Pačuka Šehović, Jelka Vukobratović, Mojca Piškor, Elfriede Reissig

4.30 pm
Chairman: Tina Berk
The presentation of monograph on the 70th anniversary of the Ljubljana Festival (1953–2022)

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