Recovered Voices: Staging Suppressed Opera of the Early 20th Century
Schedule
Page updated as of March 26, 2010.
Wednesday, April 7
UCLA Faculty Center, California Room
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel 1
Kenneth Reinhard (UCLA) & Robert Elias (The OREL Foundation)
Moderator: Robert Elias (The OREL Foundation)
Panelists:
Albrecht Dümling (Chair, musica reanimata)
“The ‘Entartete Musik’ Exhibition of Düsseldorf 1938—Intentions, Obstacles and Consequences”
Martin Goldsmith (Author and Radio Host)
“The Inextinguishable Symphony ”
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Panel 2
Panelists:
Harvey Sachs (Curtis Institute of Music)
“Opera in Mussolini's Italy”
Michael Beckerman (New York University)
“Haas' Charlatan and Other Forecasts of Disaster”
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Lunch
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Panel 3
Panelists:
Adrian Daub (Stanford University)
“Total Work of Art, 'Degenerate' Artist and Ugly Detail: The Birthdays of the Infanta of Wilde, Schreker and Zemlinsky.”
David Levin (University of Chicago)
“The Imp of the Perverse?
Alexander von Zemlinsky's Operatic World”
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Break
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Panel 4
Panelist:
Sigrid Weigel
(Director, Zentrums für Literatur- und Kulturforschung)
Zemlinsky's Der Traumgörge—a Post-Wagnerian Pentecost Play, or: On the Emergence of a Pogrom from the Midst of a Christian Community
6:00 PM Dinner
8:00 PM Schoenberg Hall
members of Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra:
Margaret Batjer, Tereza Stanislav, violin
Roland Kato, Victoria Miskolczy, viola
Andrew Shulman, Armen Ksajikian, cello
Program:
All Schulhoff
Sonata no. 2 for Violin and Piano (Mr. Hope and Mr. Kahane)
Sextet for Strings
(Ms. Batjer, Ms. Stanislav, Mr. Kato, Ms. Miskolczy, Mr. Shulman and Mr. Ksajikian)
Duo for Violin and Cello (Mr. Shulman and Mr. Hope)
Thursday, April 8
UCLA Faculty Center, Faculty Center (California Room)
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM Panel 5
Panelists:
Michael Haas (Producer, Decca “Entartete Musik ” Series) (read by Gerold Gruber, [Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien])
“Hans Gál and his Sacred Duck”
Bret Werb (US Holocaust Memorial Museum)
“We Will Never Die (1943):
A Pageant to Save the Jews of Europe.”
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM Panel 6
Panelists:
Ryan Minor (SUNY, Stonybrook)
“Schlusschoral: History and Meaning in Ullmann and Weill”
Brigid Cohen (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
“Opera after the Bauhaus: Wolpe's Zeus und Elida and the Ethics of Montage”
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM Lunch
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM Panel 7
Panelists:
Peter Franklin (University of Oxford)
“Lost in Spaces: Recovering Schreker's Spectacular Voices”
Christopher Hailey (Director, Franz Schreker Foundation)
‘Ecco le plebi’: Schreker, his People, and the Ambivalence of Modernity
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Break
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Concluding Roundtable
Brief presentation on LA Opera's
“Recovered Voices ” project
by Olga Bezrukova
6:00 PM Dinner
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
James Conlon,
Richard Seaver Music Director, LA Opera
Note: LA Opera's premiere of Franz Schreker's Die Gezeichneten will be presented at 7:30 PM on Saturday, April 10, 2010