Keynote speaker:
Richard Will (University of Virginia)
The conference is part of a year-long series of events devoted to Haydn
at the New Zealand School of Music.
The conference will conclude with a roundtable discussion that will, in addition to the keynote speakers, also include Richard Marlow (Trinity College, Cambridge), Peter Walls (New Zealand Symphony Orchestra) and, as moderator, Elizabeth Hudson (NZSM).
The New Zealand School of Music
Kelburn Campus, Victoria University of Wellington
Keith Chapin, Organizer, Keith.Chapin@nzsm.ac.nz
Debbie Rawnsley, Event Administrator, Debbie.Rawnsley@nzsm.ac.nz
From the second part of the eighteenth century through its cusp, the topic of expression arose frequently when music was in the air. Not only did expression seem to embody the very essence of the art, but in its various forms it could mesh with many goals – from the provision of simple pleasure to the revelation of soul and self. As musicians cultivated different genres and styles, they considered the range of expressions available to them, from humour and wit, through elegance, up to pathetic and sublime heights, and, once arrived, back again through their many admixtures, overlaps, and convergences. Composers explored different modes of expressions as they aged and as their careers turned. Performers embodied and enhanced the expressions of music, at times through sheer performative presence, at times through well-considered ornamentation. And, of course, music expressed more than words could say. It expressed intractable issues of belonging and culture, otherwise so difficult to articulate.
This conference is devoted to Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), a composer whose music was an epitome of expression for many of the time, and a composer who took at times a cue, at times his distance from the forms of expression cultivated by his contemporaries. No less, through performances and scholarship, the conference celebrates the diverse forms of musical expression that take place at the New Zealand School of Music and around Wellington.
Schedule
FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
Venue: Hunter Council Chamber, Victoria University of Wellington, Kelburn Cmpus
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Registration and coffee |
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Peter Adams (University of Otago): Haydn and the Grundgestalt Principle |
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Hamish Robb (New Zealand School of Music): Motivic Treatment in Late Haydn and Early Beethoven Piano Sonatas |
11.00 am |
Roger Dean (austraLYSIS, Sydney and MARCS Auditory Laboratories, University of Western Sydney): Dynamics of Haydn's Music: Intensity Archetypes, Rhizomatic Applications |
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Robin Maconie: The Two Cultures and the Search for Human Nature |
12.00 pm
Venue: Adam Concert Room, New Zealand School of Music, Gate 7, Kelburn Parade
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Noon Concert: NZSM Quartet-in-Residence
Haydn: The Seven Last Words from the Cross
Opus 51
More information on concert
(Change of venue for this concert only, lunch and afternoon meetings will be held in the Hunter Council Chamber, Victoria Uiversity of Wellington, Kelburn Campus) |
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Lunch |
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Performance/Presentation: Shane Levesque (Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts): Extemporaneous Expression: Hidden Opportunities for Improvisation in Haydn's Keyboard Sonatas |
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Jonathan Berkahn (New Zealand School of Music): Why the Purchasers of Haydn's Op. 40 Sonatas Might (or Might Not) Have Been Disappointed |
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Walter Kreyszig (Department of Music, University of Saskatchewan and the Center for Canadian Studies, University of Vienna): “… the first man to teach us general variation and to extend it to all the instruments”: Franz Joseph Haydn’s Pathbreaking Contribution to an All-Embracing Notion of the Variation in the Slow Movements of His Late Symphonies, Hob.I:82-104 |
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Reception |
SATURDAY, 23 MAY 2009
Venue: Hunter Council Chamber, Victoria University of Wellington, Kelburn Cmpus
10.00 am |
Robert Hoskyns (New Zealand School of Music): Captain Cook’s Afterlife on the English Stage |
10.30 am |
Alan Davison (University of Otago): Iconography as Reception: Haydn and his London Portraits |
11.00 am |
Coffee break |
11.30 am |
Ralph Bathurst and Peter Lineham (Massey University, Albany): Haydn’s Theology: Exploring the Spirituality of Leadership |
12.00 pm |
Jen-yen Chen (National Taiwan University): The Seven Last Words: Genre and Expression in Late Eighteenth-Century Musica da Chiesa |
12.30 pm |
Lunch |
1.45 pm |
Performance/Presentation: Polly Sussex (Auckland): Boccherini's Celli: A New Look at Selected Works for Solo Cello in Light of Recent Discoveries (with Emma Goodbehere, violincello) |
2.30 pm |
Keith Chapin (New Zealand School of Music): Haydn, Mood, and Time |
3.00 pm |
Nancy November (University of Auckland): Haydn's Late Instrumental Labyrinths |
3.30 pm |
Coffee break |
4.00 pm |
Keynote Address: Richard Will (University of Virginia): Haydn’s Cosmopolitan Scots |
7:00 pm
Venue: The Legislative Council Chamber, Parliament, 1 Molesworth Street, Wellington |
Soirée and Reception
Performance by the New Zealand String Quartet with Commentary by Keith
Chapin
Fully Registered Conference Participants and Invited Guests Only
Jointly hosted by The Hon. Chris Finlayson, the Minister of Arts, Culture and Heritage; Peter Diessl, the Austrian Consul-General; Professor Elizabeth Hudson, Director of the NZ School of Music, and the New Zealand String Quartet Trust
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SUNDAY, 24 MAY 2009
10.00 am
Venue: Wellington Cathedral of St. Paul, 45 Molesworth St., Wellington |
Mass. Includes Haydn's Little Organ Mass in B-flat, Hob. XXII/7 (Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo) St. Paul's Cathedral Choir conducted by Richard Marlow (Trinity College, Cambridge) |
12.00 pm
Venue: Wellesley Club, Wellesley Hotel, 2-8 Maginnity Street, Wellington |
Lunch |
1.30 pm
Venue: Wellesley Club, Wellesley Hotel, 2-8 Maginnity Street, Wellington |
Roundtable Discussion: Richard Marlow (Trinity College, Cambridge), Dean Sutcliffe (University of Auckland), Peter Walls (New Zealand Symphony Orchestra), and Richard Will (University of Virginia); moderated by Elizabeth Hudson (New Zealand School of Music). |
Conference Venues
Most activities of the conference on 22-23 May will be held in the
historic Hunter Building - the first building of Victoria College (now
Victoria University of Wellington).
The Friday lunchtime concert will be held in the Adam Concert Room,
which is also situated on the Victoria University Campus. Public
parking is not available at the University on weekdays (tow-away
applies).
The Saturday evening soirée will be held at Parliament.
Attendance is for fully registered conference partipants and invited guests only.
Sunday Mass will be held at the Wellington Cathedral of St. Paul, and the following lunch and roundtable discussion will be held at the Wellesley Club, 2-8 Maginnity St., Wellington.
For more information about conference venues, please refer to the map at http://www.victoria.ac.nz/home/about/maps/publications/kelburn_map.pdf . The Hunter building is at 24f.
Registration
Full registration $120
Friday only $50
Saturday only $50
Sunday only $50
All fees include lunch, morning and afternoon teas
Only full registration includes an invitation to the Saturday evening soirée. The single day fee includes admittance to the scheduled concert on Friday and Sunday.
Please contact Tony McLoughlin by mail, email, or phone to book. Please give your name, address, telephone number, mobile number, and email address. Indicate whether you would prefer full or single-day registration, and for which day, if for a single day.
Contact information for Tony McLoughlin is:
tony.mcloughlin@nzsm.ac.nz
Tony McLoughlin
NZSM 'Forms of Expression' Committee
PO Box 2332, Wellington, New Zealand
Tel: +64 4 801-5799, ext. 62340
Payment Options
Cheque:
Cheques should be made payable to
New Zealand School of Music (in New Zealand dollars)
Internet Banking:
Account name: New Zealand School of Music Limited
Bank: BNZ
Branch: Wellington
Account number: 02-0500-0798303-00
Swift code: BKNZNZ22
Accommodations
We are pleased to be able to offer the following group rates for Wellington hotels:
Central Terrace Heights Apartments
+64 4 499 2938
Studio $124
One bedroom $148
Novotel
Contact: Nicole Garthwaite +64 4 495 1086
Room only $145
Room + breakfast for 1 $160
Room + breakfast for 2 $175
Mercure Hotel Willis
+64 4 803 1000
Room only (2 singles or 1 queen) $99
Room + breakfast for 1 $114
Room + breakfast for 2 $129
