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Princeton University
April 4-7, 2002
 

Society for Seventeenth-Century Music

 TENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE 
  Dedicated to Irene Alm and Thomas Walker

 
PROGRAM


Thursday evening, April 4
 
Welcome Reception (light supper buffet)

Concert - A Venetian Extravaganza, directed by Nancy Wilson, violin. 
Music of Monteverdi, Cavalli, and Strozzi with Julianne Baird and Laura Heimes, sopranos; Curtis Streetman, baritone; Julie Andrijeski, violin; Loretta O’ Sullivan, violoncello; Richard Stone, lute/theorbo; Michael Collver, cornetto; Gwendolyn Toth, harpsichord/organ.
 
Friday, April 5
 
Welcome and Greetings from Scott Burnham, chair, Music Department; Katherine Rohrer,Vice Provost, Princeton University 
 
Session I  VIEWING VENETIAN OPERA
Chair: Ellen Rosand (Yale University)
 
Giulio Ongaro (University of Southern California), “’E pur io torno qui’:  Sixteenth-Century Literary Debates, the Audience’s View, and the Interpretation of Poppea
 
Jennifer Williams Brown (University of Rochester),  “Out of the Dark Ages: Editing Cavalli’s Operas in the Post-Modern World”
 
Louise Stein (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), “Opera in the Atascadero: Seventeenth-Century Spanish Views on Opera, Politics, and the Pleasures of Venice”
 
Mauro Calcagno (Harvard University), “Word and Image in Seventeenth-Century Venetian Librettos:  The Frontispiece as Operatic Emblem”
 
Catered Lunch and Special Meeting – 1956 Club
 
Session II  CITY MUSIC 
Chair:  Jonathan Glixon (University of Kentucky)  
 
Jeffrey Kurtzman (Washington University, St. Louis),  “Civic Identity and Civic Glue: Venetian Processions and Ceremonies of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries”
 
Gregory Barnett, “In Search of a Stile accademico: The Earliest Esperimenti d’esame of the Bolognese Accademia Filarmonica”
 
Marc Vanscheeuwijck (University of Oregon),  “Giovanni Paolo Colonna and Petronio Franceschini: Building Acoustics and Compositional Style in Late Seventeenth-Century Bologna”
 
Barbara Sparti (Rome, Italy), “Hercules Dancing in Thebes, in Pictures and Music”
 

Evening Concert – Capricious Idolatries:  Exoticism in Seventeenth-Century Music and Dance
     D’India’s “Balletto dei re della China,” choreographed by Barbara Sparti;  “Lazzi d’amore, or The Dalliances of
     Harlequino and Columbina,” choreographed and danced by Dorothy Olsson and Mark Mindek


Saturday, April 6
 
Session III  NORTHERN EUROPE
Chair:  Kerala Snyder (Professor emerita, Eastman School of Music)
 
Stewart Carter (Wake Forest University), “An Italianate Oratorio latino for the Electoral Court of Mainz:  Daniel Bollius’s Repraesentatio on the Nativity of John the Baptist”
 
Michael Burden (New College, Oxford University), “‘Sharpers, beaus, the very Cits’: The Wits’ Expectations of the Players in Purcell’s Fairy Queen
 
Arne Spohr (Musikhochschule Köln), “The Hamburg Ratsmusik and its Repertoire: Johann Schop’s Erster Theil Newer Paduanen (1633/1640)”
 
 
Session IV   DRAMATIC MUSIC IN FLORENCE, ROME AND VENICE 
Chair: Massimo Ossi (Indiana University)
 
Nina Treadwell (Grinnell College)  “She Descended on a Cloud ‘From the Highest Spheres’: Florentine Proto-monody alla Romanina
 
Susan Shrimp (Yale University), Andromache, Dido, and the Mother of Euryalis:  Seneca’s Legacy in Domenico Mazzocchi’s Virgilian Laments
 
Tim Carter (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), “Constructing a Stemma of Monteverdi’s Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
 
Panel Discussion:  A Feast for Eye and Ear: Sound, Space, and Image in Seventeenth-Century Europe.
Patricia Fortini Brown, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, John Pinto (Princeton University, Department of Art and Archaeology);Wendy Heller (Princeton University), moderator
 
Princeton Art Museum, Wine Reception and Exhibit:  “Anthony van Dyck's Ecce Homo and the Mocking of Christ”; Todor Petev, docent (Princeton University)
 
Anniversary Banquet at Prospect House, Garden Room


Sunday, April 7 
 
Session V  THE FRENCH CONNECTION
Chair:  Antonia Banducci (University of Denver)
 
Roger Freitas (Eastman School of Music), “A Virtuoso Performance: A Castrato in the French Court”
 
Lisa Chensvold (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), “From Ercole amante to L’Hercule amoureux: Translating Cavalli”
 
Rebecca Harris-Warrick (Cornell University),  “Staging Venice”
 
Carol G. Marsh (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), “Dancing Venice: The Forlana in France”
The conference was sponsored by the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music, the Princeton University Department of Music, the Princeton University Program in Italian Studies, and the Dorothea van Dyke McLean Association. 

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