MUSIC THURSDAY RESEARCH AFTERNOONS 2011-12: SEMESTER 1

PERFORMANCE SEMINARS (PS), 14:30-16:00, COSMO RODEWALD CONCERT HALL

COMPOSERS’ FORUM (CF), 16:15-18:00, G16

MUSICOLOGY FORUM (MF), 16:15-18:00, G16

Sep 29	PS	Quatuor Danel Seminar with Barry Cooper (University of Manchester): “Beethoven’s Workshop: a discussion of unfamiliar versions of Beethoven’s first two published quartets, with a reconstruction of a long-lost movement”
Sep 29	MF	Barry Cooper (University of Manchester) “Reconstructing a lost Beethoven Quartet Movement”
Oct 6	CF	David Berezan (University of Manchester): “Navigating the Nautical: new spaces, new sounds, new techniques”
Oct 13	MF	Michael Kennedy CBE (University of Manchester, Distinguished Visiting Scholar): “Music in Manchester, 1940-2011”
Oct 20	CF	PhD composer presentations: Donal Sarsfield: “Exploring the personal through sound”  Constantin Popp: “Methods to Capture and Construct Spatial Settings Using Multichannel Microphone Configurations”
Oct 27	PS	Northern Harmony: Singing workshop
Oct 27	MF	Manchester Centre for Music and Culture: presentations on Music and Science
Nov 4		READING WEEK
Nov 10	PS	Quatuor Danel Seminar: “Viennese Worlds: Schubert and Webern are divided by a century of history but united by hidden threads of psychology and culture.”
Nov 10	CF	John McAuliffe (University of Manchester, Centre for New Writing): “Rival arts? Music and form in poetry”
Nov 17	MF	Kordula Knaus (University of Graz, Austria): “Casting female singers as male lovers. Conventions and vocal profiles in 18th century comic opera"
Nov 24	PS	Malkhaz Erkvanidze and Sakhioba: Lecture-demonstration on Georgian polyphonic chant
Nov 24	CF	Vaganza presents Igor Shcherbakov (President of the Ukrainian Composers’ Union) in conversation with Kevin Malone (University of Manchester)
Dec 1	CF	Paul Archbold (Kingston University): “Fluxions: a creative response to the challenge of unstable multiphonics”
Dec 8	PS	Quatuor Danel Workshop: Bachelors of Composition: a workshop of new compositions by undergraduate students at the University of Manchester
Dec 8	MF	Pauline Fairclough (University of Bristol): “Don't Sing it on a Feast Day: the performance of Western sacred music in the Stalin period”
Dec 15	MF	PhD musicologist presentations (tbc)

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