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An International Beethoven Conference presented by The Center for Beethoven Research, The College of Fine Arts, And the School of Music at Boston University, In Honor of the 252nd Anniversary of the Birth of Ludwig Van Beethoven and the 92nd Birthday of Lewis Lockwood.
With support from the Boston University College of Fine Arts, the Boston University Center for the Humanities, the New England Conservatory of Music, and the New England Consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany.
THURSDAY, MARCH 24 – SUNDAY, MARCH 27, 2022
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“BEETHOVEN’S NINTH SYMPHONY:
A 200-YEAR PERSPECTIVE”
ALL-DAY CONFERENCE, MARCH 27, 2024
at Boston University’s Hillel House
213 Bay State Road, Boston MA 02215
Conference
Boston University’s Hillel House
8:00AM CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
9:00AM Jeremy Yudkin: Welcome
9:15AM Beate Angelika Kraus: “Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony – On the Edition of a Magnum Opus and its Multiple Manifestations.”
10:00AM Mark Evan Bonds: “Second Thoughts”
10:45 COFFEE/TEA BREAK
11:15AM David Levy: “The Ninth Symphony: Vision, Illusion, or Delusion?”
12-2PM LUNCH (ad libitum)
2PM Elaine Sisman: “A Lexicon of Humor in the Molto Vivace of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony: Composition and Reception.”
2:45PM James Parsons: “What the Choral Fantasy Can Tell Us About the Choral Finale.”
3:30-4:00 COFFEE/TEA BREAK
4-4:45PM Christopher Reynolds: “The Narrative and Musical Debts of Wagner’s Ring to Beethoven’s Ninth.”
Concert
Tsai Performance Center
8:00PM Julia Adams: “Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony: Liszt’s Formidable Transcription for Solo Piano.”
Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphonie No. 9 avec choeur finale sur l’ode de Schiller “An die Freude,” S. 657 Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
I. Allegro ma non troppo un poco maestoso
II. Molto vivace
III. Adagio molto e cantabile
IV. Presto
Chengcheng Ma, piano
Boston University Chamber Chorus, Conductor, John Black
Jaxon Ackerman, Jessica Lamoreux, Sulaf Al Jubal, Michelle Leung. Rachel Brennan, Bianca Lucas, Jerome Boxer, Andrew Mak, Avery Davidson, Aurora Martens, Delaney Finn, Rebeca Nehmeh, Sophia Gaunt, Eli Pekelny, Louisa Gundeck, Natalia Perera, Sadie Habas, Daniel Reid, Vanessa Hudson, Gwyneth Rix
Participants
Julia Adams, Fellowship Advisor, formerly Professor of Music, Franklin and Marshall College, author of Musical Humor and Antonín Dvořák’s Comic Operas.
Mark Evan Bonds, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina and author of Beethoven: Variations on a Life and The Beethoven Syndrome: Hearing Music as Autobiography.
Beate Angelika Kraus, Resident Scholar, Beethoven Archive, Beethoven-Haus, Bonn, and editor of the new Ninth Symphony critical edition for the Complete Works.
David Levy, Professor Emeritus, Wake Forest University, and author of Beethoven: The Ninth Symphony.
James Parsons, Distinguished Professor, Missouri State University, and editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Lied.
Christopher Reynolds, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California at Davis, and author of Wagner, Schumann and the Lessons of Beethoven’s Ninth.
Elaine Sisman, Anne Parsons Bender Professor of Music, Columbia University, author of Haydn and the Classical Variation.
The conference will take place in the second-floor lounge of Boston University’s Hillel House, which is a comfortable and intimate space. A performance of Liszt’s extraordinary arrangement of the Ninth Symphony for solo piano and singers will take place in the evening of March 27 at Boston University’s Tsai Performance Center.
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RECENT EVENT
CREATION AND TEMPORALITY
BEETHOVEN’S PIANO TRIO IN Bb, Op. 97 (“Archduke”)
AND SCHUBERT’S PIANO TRIO IN Eb, Op. 100
A SYMPOSIUM AND PERFORMANCE
with
Professor Barbara Barry, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Dr. Lucy Turner, Columbia University
Graduate Students of the School of Music’s
String Department and Piano Department
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
3:15-4:30 pm. Marshall Room. Open rehearsal with performers and scholars. (Visitors welcome.)
5:00-7:00 pm. Marshall Room. Formal presentation of scholarly papers, with musical examples played live. (Visitors welcome.)
8:00 pm. Concert Hall.
Piano Trio in Bb, Op. 97 (“Archduke”) LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Piano Trio in Eb, Op. 100 FRANZ SCHUBERT
RECENT EVENTS
SYMPOSIUM
on
Beethoven: String Quartet in F Major, Op. 59, No.1
April 12 & 13, 2023
Boston University
WEDNESDAY, April12
2-4pm BU College of Fine Arts, 855 Comm. Ave., Room 167
Open rehearsal with performers and scholars
5-7pm BU College of Fine Arts, 855 Comm. Ave., Marshall Room
Richard Kramer, “The Anxiety of Return: On a Telling Passage in the First Movement of Opus 59 no. 1.”
Nicholas Mathew, “Singing, Talking, Writing, Working: Lyricism and Thematicism in Op. 59 No. 1.”
Mark Ferraguto, “Op. 59, No. 1: A Model of Restraint?”
8pm CFA Concert Hall
32 Variations WoO 80
Gaeun Ban, piano
String Quartet in F Major, Op. 59, No. 1
Boyu Li & Hudson Ye Hyung Chung, violins; Leqing Wang, viola, Minyung Suh, cello
THURSDAY, April 13
10am-12pm 808 Commonwealth Avenue, Seminar Room
Roundtable Discussion
Chamber Scenes: Musical Space, Medium, and Genre c.1800
16–18 February 2023
Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, San José State University
Organizers: Erica Buurman (San José State University) and Nicholas Mathew (UC Berkeley)
Wednesday, November 30, 3:30-5:00pm,
CFA Marshall Room
Understanding Beethoven with Digital Tools: Tracing the Compositional Process in ‘Beethoven’s Workshop’
Dr. Elisa Novara, Beethoven-Haus Bonn
New publications by the Center’s co-directors:
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Just named one of the 2021 Outstanding Reference Books of the Year by the American Library Association
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 With the final installment on Op. 123 and 124, the series The Critical Reception of Beethoven’s Compositions by His German Contemporaries is now complete and available on the publications page of the website.
OUR MISSIONThe Research Center serves three essential purposes:(1) to provide a focal point for current research on Beethoven’s life, work, and milieu, at the highest professional level;(2) to create opportunities for scholars and performers to interact in symposia, workshops, and concerts; and(3) to enrich public understanding of Beethoven as composer and cultural figure through lectures, conferences, and concerts.It fosters ties with other universities, centers, and academic departments at Boston University and elsewhere, including the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, Germany. The Center promotes scholarship in a wide spectrum of Beethoven studies, with a focus on analysis and criticism, sketch and autograph studies, biography, and historical and cultural contexts. It maintains a library of books and scores, facsimiles of original sources, and a website that can serve as a portal for scholars, teachers, authors, critics, and members of the general public who wish to be in touch with the most recent Beethoven scholarship.
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