From the Wellspring to the Ocean Béla Bartók's Musicological Legacy in Today's World

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

The conference is free and open to the public. For information about the conference call 845-758-7405 or write to bartok@bard.edu.

Saturday, June 3
Olin 102
9:30-10:45 a.m.

SESSION I

Peter Laki (Oberlin College), introductory remarks

Jill Ann Johnson (University of Washington)
"Bartók as Ethnomusicologist: Talent, Timing, and Technology"

Philip V. Bohlman (University of Chicago)
"Béla Bartók and the People Without History"

10:45-11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m.- 12:00 noon

SESSION II

Speranţa Radulescu (Bucharest, Romania)
"The Ethnomusicologist Béla Bartók Revisited a Century Later: A Small Case Study"

Damiana Bratuž (University of Western Ontario)
"Rethinking Bartók's Boundaries"

Donna Buchanan
"Bartók and the Bulgarian Ethnomusicologist Raina Katsarova"

12:15 – 1:45 p.m. Lunch
1:30-2:45 p.m.

SESSION II

Lynn Hooker (Indiana University)

László Vikárius (Bartók Archives, Budapest)
"The Bartók-Moeller Controversy"

2:45 – 3:00 p.m. Coffee Break
3:00-4:30 p.m.

SESSION IV

Roberto Sierra (Cornell University) and Bright Sheng (University of Michigan) discuss their music in connection with Bartók's ideas about "folk music" influencing "art music"

Sunday, June 4
Olin 102
9:30-10:45 a.m.

SESSION V

Márta Rudas

Vera Lampert Deák (Brandeis University)
"The Composer as Ethnographer: Attributes of Bartók's Folk Music Research"

10:45-11:00 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m. -12:00 noon

SESSION VI

Nice Fracile
"The Phonographic Recordings and Transcriptions of Béla Bartók in the Light of Comparative Research"

Kristy R. Riggs (Temple University)
"Bartók in the Desert: Challenges to a European Conducting Research in North Africa in the Early 20th Century"

Bard College deeply appreciates the support of Laszlo Bito ’60 and Olivia Carino for their vision and support in making this event possible. Additional funding has been provided by the trustees and friends of Bard College.

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