Music between Nation and Form:
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and the Boundaries of Italianità

Made possible by the Tabak Fund for Italian Studies.
Sponsored by: the Lynn Gunzberg Fund, the Woods Lectureship, the Office of the Dean of the College, the Cogut Center for the Humanities, the Pembroke Center, the Departments of Comparative Literature, English, French Studies, German Studies, Judaic Studies, Modern Culture and Media, Music, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, Theater Arts and Performance Studies

 

Thursday, September 27th, 201 - 8.00 pm: Sounds of Sonnets, Strings and Winds: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Chamber Music Between Two Worlds

Music performance at Grant Recital Hall , 1 Young Orchard Ave. Free and open to public. Concert program

Friday and Saturday, 9AM, September 28 and 29, 2012
305 Pembroke Hall, 172 Meeting Street. Providence, RI 02912

8.30-9.15: Coffee and Refreshments

9.15-9.30: Welcome – Massimo Riva (Brown University); Opening Remarks – Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg (Brown University)

9.30-11.00: Panel 1 – Italian Musical Modernism

Chair: Katherine Bergeron (Brown University)

  • Deborah Amberson (University of Florida), The ‘Generazione dell’80’ and the Pursuit of Italian Musical Modernity
  • Axel Körner (University College London), Music and the Semantics of Time: The Internationalization of the Italian Repertoire between Finesecolo and World War One

11.00-11.30: Coffee Break

11.30–1.00: Panel 2 – Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Composer of Florence

Chair: Ronald Martinez (Brown University)

  • James Westby (Independent Scholar), The Musician of Florence: Constructing fiorentinità
  • Giuseppe Ficara (Conservatorio Rossini, Pesaro), From Verse to Strings: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Humanist from Tuscany, Bard of the 20th Century

1.00-2.30: Lunch

2.30–4.00: Panel 3 – Music in Exile

Chair: David Josephson (Brown University)

  • Dorothy Lamb-Crawford (Independent Scholar), Heaven, Hell, and Hollywood
  • Matthew Franke (University of North Carolina), Coming to America: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Third Violin Concerto

4.00-4.30: Coffee Break

5.00–6.00: Keynote address - Leon Botstein (President of Bard College and Music Director, American Symphony Orchestra)

8.00 pm: Romance, Devotion, and Drama: the Music of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

Music performance at Sayles Hall on the Main Green. Free and open to public. Concert program

Saturday September 29th

305 Pembroke Hall, 172 Meeting St.

9.00am-4.30pm

8.30–9.00: Coffee and Refreshments

9.00–10.30: Panel 4 - Shifting Musical Identities

Chair: Evelyn Lincoln (Brown University)

  • Mila De Santis (Università di Firenze), “An Echo in My Music”: Identity and Interculturalism in the Art Songs of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco during his Florentine Years
  • Assaf Shelleg (University of Virginia), Musica Ebraica in Italy: Reshuffling Historiographical Cards

10.30–11.00: Coffee Break

11.00–12.30: Panel 5 - Music and Poetry

Chair: Caroline Castiglione (Brown University)

  • John Champagne (Pennsylvania State University, Erie) and Salvatore Champagne (Oberlin College) with pianist Howard Lubin (Oberlin College), Resisting Fascism's "New Man": Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Setting of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass

12.30–1.30: Lunch

1.30-1.45: Film: Letters from Babylon. Director: Adriano Sforzi, in collaboration with Antonella Sisto, Giuseppe Ficara and Massimo Riva

1.45–3.15: Panel 6 – Exile in Babylon: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco at MGM

Chair: Massimo Riva (Brown University)

  • Antonella Sisto (Smith College), Soundtrack of Babylon: Hollywood and the Unsung Composer
  • Alessandra Campana (Tufts University), The Ghost Composer: “And then there was Clair”

3.15-3.30: Coffee Break

3.30-4.30: Round Table Discussion

Chair: Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg

Diana Castelnuovo-Tedesco, David Josephson, Paul Phillips, Assaf Shelleg, James Westby

 

For more information contact: Suzanne_Stewart-Steinberg@brown.edu or Mona_Delgado@brown.edu

Free and open to the public
Wheelchair accessable