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The IHMS 1998
Special Study Session Boston will be Chaired by Professor Emilio Ros-Fabregas, Boston University. Persons wishing to contribute to the Special Study Session should contact Dr. Ros-Fábregas via e-mail at: ros-fab@bu.edu
1997 PHEONIX
IHMS STUDY SESSION Integrating Hispanic Music into the Western Music Curriculum Professor Carol Hess Participants:
From the "Cantigas de Santa Maria" to "Una cosa rara" to the Latin American avant-garde, Hispanic composers have made their mark on Western music. Yet in general, Spanish and Latin American music has been only minimally served by traditional pedagogical approaches. Consequently the music history instructor may be called upon to supplement a survey text, or explain a variety of generalizations about Hispanic music that continue to prevail. What is the typical undergraduate to make of passing references to the "passionate intensity" of Morales or the "profoundly non-European character" of Carlos Chávez? In the absence of extended discussion, these generalizations seem to hint at some mysterious quality of "Latin-ness" while bypassing more fundamental issues of musical style and cultural identity. This Study Session
seeks to address the means by which the Hispanic musical heritage
can be integrated into the broader context of the Western music curriculum.
Taking their own research as a point of departure, our speakers will
address aspects of both Iberian and Latin American music that could
be readily incorporated into existing courses. Topics will include
(1) demystifying Victoria's "mysticism," (2) the Spanish presence
in French nineteenth-century opera, (3) teaching Latin American popular
music, (4) issues of identity in twentieth-century Mexican music,
and (5) musical colonialism in the New World. Each fifteen-minute
presentation will be followed by a moderated discussion. Current bibliographies
and discographies will also be available.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
MEXICAN MUSIC February 14-16, 1997
PROGRAM Session 1 - Daniel
T. Politoske, chair Session 2 - Walter
A. Clark, chair Preconcert Lecture by Ana Lara Concert: University of Kansas Symphony Orchestra, Lied Center, Brian Priestman, Director
Saturday, February
15 Session 3 - Paul
R. Laird, chair Session 4 - Daniel
T. Politoske, chair Session 5 - Paul
R. Laird, chair Session 6 - Walter
A. Clark, chair Preconcert Lecture:
Walter A. Clark (University of Kansas): "Mexican Guitar Music," Bales
Recital Hall Concert: Juan Carlos
Laguna, guitar, Bales Recital Hall Sunday, February
16 Session 7 - Paul
R. Laird, chair Session 8: - Daniel
T. Politoske, chair Celebrating Mexican history and culture, the University of Kansas organized an impressive series of fourteen events which took place from Feburary to May, 1997. In addition to the scholarly conference noted above, art exhibitions, a film series, a dance concert, band and collegium music concerts and a theatre production all focused upon the artisitc patrimony of Mexico. Few other academic institutions in the United States have undertaken anyting as ambitious as La fiesta de la cultura Mexicana. The International Conference on Mexican Music was very ably and expertly organized by Professors Paul Laird, Walter Clark and Daniel Politoske. The presenters came from nine states in the U. S. and Mexico. In addition to the very high level of scholarly excellence attained by all of the presentations, the two musical performances lent a special significance to the proceedings of the Conference. The organizers and performers are to be congratulated warmly on a unique, multi-disciplinary undertaking, one which is surely unrivaled in Hispanic music for the calendar year 1997.
THE JESUITS: CULTURE, LEARNING
AND THE ARTS, 1540-1773. This five-day conference, devoted to the Society of Jesus before the 1773 supression by Pope Clement XIV, was organized to promote "..further understanding of the interaction between religion and culture, especially manifested in painting, music and science that took place in the international Jesuit network during the age of discovery and beyond." To that end fifty paper presentations were made during the five days of the conference. The topics discussed ranged from mathematics and astronomy to patronage and Jesuit confraternities. Five presentations were devoted specifically to music, and of these four treated Hispanic music topics. They were: T. Frank Kennedy, S. J. (U.S.A.), "Candide and a Boat," Paulo Castagna (Brazil), "The Use of Music by the Jesuits in the Conversion of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil," Bernardo Illari (Bolivia), "Staging the Mission: The Case of the Opera San Ignacio de Loyola In Chiquitos and Moxos," William Summers (U.S.A.), "The Jesuits in Manila, 1581-1768: The Role of Music in Rite, Ritual and Spectacle." The artistic high point and center-piece of the Conference was the fully staged performance in Boston College's Saint Mary's Chapel of the opera San Ignacio de Loyola (A Mission Opera), composed by Domenico Zipoli, S. J. and Martin Schmidt, S. J. The opera score was reconstruced and edited by Bernardo Illari, who also supervised and assisted with the production. The international cast of singers included Randall Wong, Silvia Irving, Steven Rickards, and Murray Kidd. James David Christie conducted the performance, which featured the period instrument orchestra Ensemble Abendmusik. Fr. T. Frank Kennedy, S. J. was a member of the Conference Steering Committee. His special efforts to bring the fine and performing arts into the proceedings were seminal to the success of this stimulating and rewarding conference.
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