Celebrating An Icon
To mark the 50th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky鈥檚 passing, our college hosted a three-day festival from February 17 - 19, 2022. This international event celebrated Stravinsky鈥檚 music, with a special focus on his life and work in America, from 1939 to 1971. We hosted a series of exciting performances by all areas of the College of Music & Dramatic Arts, as well as engaging lectures and presentations from globally renowned scholars and researchers.
Festival Information
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Thursday, February 17, 2022
9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
- Analyzing Stravinsky
Joseph Straus (CUNY Graduate Center), chair- Maureen Carr (Penn State), 鈥淐limbing the Tower of Additive Construction: The Final Movement of Stravinsky鈥檚 Symphony in Three Movements鈥
- Lina Sofia Tabak (CUNY Graduate Center), 鈥淗ypermeter in Stravinsky? A Transformational Approach鈥
- David Keep (Hope College), 鈥淩itual Dances: The Tarantella Finale, The 鈥楽acrificial Dance,鈥 and Stravinsky鈥檚 Strategies in the Symphony in Three Movements鈥
- Jack Boss (University of Oregon), 鈥淪travinskian vs. Schoenbergian Neoclassicism, Reexamined鈥
- Mark Richardson (East Carolina University), 鈥淪travinsky鈥檚 Steps Toward Serialism with a Return to Dance: The Genesis of Agon鈥
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
- Stravinsky鈥檚 Reception History I
Lynn Garafola (Barnard College, Columbia University), chair
- Chandler Carter (Hofstra University), 鈥淪travinsky鈥檚 Love/Hate Relationship with American Opera Companies鈥
- Patrick Domico (Indiana University Bloomington), 鈥淧erforming Neoclassicism: Koussevitzky and Stravinsky鈥檚 Ode鈥
- Craig B. Parker (Kansas State University), 鈥淪travinsky and the Los Angeles Music Festival鈥
Friday, February 18, 2022
9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
- Stravinsky and the Russian Tradition
Inessa Bazayev (海角社区), chair- Anna Schmidtmann (University of Oxford, UK), 鈥淪travinsky鈥檚 Late Works: Converting Counterpoint?鈥
- Gretchen Horlacher (University of Maryland-College Park), 鈥淎 鈥楻ussian Popular Tune:鈥 Stravinsky on Stravinsky鈥
- Ivan Moody (Universidade Nova, Lisbon), 鈥淪travinsky鈥檚 Canticum Sacrum and Requiem Canticles as refractions of Russian Orthodox Musical Culture鈥
- David Smyth (海角社区), 鈥淓mblems of Antiquity: Some Sketches for Stravinsky鈥檚 Mass鈥
- Campbell Shiflett (Princeton University), 鈥淥n the Origin of Stravinsky鈥檚 Symphonies of Wind 滨苍蝉迟谤耻尘别苍迟蝉鈥
1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
- Stravinsky鈥檚 Reception History II
Chandler Carter (Hofstra University), chair
- Michael Palmese (Maynooth University, Ireland), 鈥淪ovietizing Stravinsky: The 1965 Bolshoi Ballet Production of The Rite of Spring鈥
- Jennifer Messelink (McGill University), 鈥溾業t鈥檚 Not Stravinsky but It鈥檚 a Lot of Fun:鈥 Stravinsky鈥檚 Place in Postwar Popular Music鈥
- Lynn Garafola (Barnard College, Columbia University), 鈥淭he 1936 Production Of Les Noces In New York鈥
Saturday, February 19, 2022
9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
- Stravinsky: Views from East and West
Maureen Carr (Penn State), chair- Olga Manulkina (St. Petersburg State University), 鈥淪travinsky: A View from Leningrad of the 1960s and 1970s鈥
- Don Traut (University of Arizona), 鈥淥lin Downes and America鈥檚 Russianization of Stravinsky鈥
- Scott Gleason (Grove Music Online), 鈥淪travinsky in the Princeton School鈥
- Kl谩ra M贸ricz (Amherst College), 鈥淭he Burden of Chronos: The Genealogy of Stravinsky鈥檚 Concept of Musical Time鈥
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
- American Perspectives on Stravinsky
Lynne Rogers (Mannes School of Music at The New School), chair- Philip Stoecker (Hofstra University), 鈥淕eorge Perle鈥檚 Perspectives on Stravinsky鈥
- Danielle Ward-Griffin (Rice University), 鈥淢ediating the Middlebrow: Stravinsky鈥檚 The Flood and Music on American Television鈥
- Paul Mauffray (independent scholar), 鈥淪travinsky in New Orleans, 鈥楾he Soldier鈥檚 Tale鈥 as Retold by Wynton Marsalis in 鈥楢 Fiddler鈥檚 Tale鈥欌
Thursday, February 17, 2022
9:00鈥9:05
Inessa Bazayev
Welcome to the Festival
9:05鈥11:30
Analyzing Stravinsky
11:30鈥12:00
Virtual Meet and Greet
12:00鈥1:30
Lunch
1:30鈥3:00&苍产蝉辫;
Stravinsky鈥檚 Reception History I
3:30鈥5:00
Keynote with Q&A: Joseph Straus (CUNY Graduate Center), 鈥淎 Portrait of the Composer
as an Old Man鈥
7:30鈥9:00
Chamber Recital 1
Friday, February 18, 2022
9:00鈥11:30
Stravinsky and the Russian Tradition
11:30鈥12:00
Virtual Meet and Greet
12:00鈥1:30&苍产蝉辫;
Lunch
1:30鈥3:00
Stravinsky's Reception History II
3:30鈥5:30
Keynote with Q&A: Lynne Rogers (Mannes School of Music at the New School), 鈥淔rom Chinese
Checkers to鈥疉braham and Isaac: Compositional Games in Stravinsky鈥檚 Late Music鈥
7:30鈥9:00
Chamber Recital 2
Saturday, February 19, 2022
9:00鈥11:00
Stravinsky: Views from East and West
11:00鈥11:30
Virtual Meet and Greet
11:30鈥1:00
Lunch
1:00鈥2:30&苍产蝉辫;
American Perspectives on Stravinsky
3:00鈥4:30
Keynote with Q&A: Stephanie Jordan (University of Roehampton), 鈥淪erial Stravinsky
Dances: Choreomusical Interactions with George Balanchine鈥
7:30鈥9:30
Union Theater Concert (with pre-concert virtual presentation by Prof. Jordan)
Symposium Guests
We welcomed several distinguished guest lecturers and performers to participate in the symposium.
Stephanie Jordan
Emeritus Research Professor
University of Roehampton (London)
Prof. Jordan鈥檚 work on Stravinsky and dance began when she was commissioned by the George Balanchine Foundation, New York as project director for the analytical video Music Dances: Balanchine Choreographs Stravinsky (2002).
Lynne Rogers
Edward Aldwell Professor
The New School (New York City)
Prof. Rogers's research on Igor Stravinsky鈥檚 music appears in The Cambridge Stravinsky Encyclopedia, Stravinsky in Context, and The Rite of Spring at 100, as well as in Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Music Theory Spectrum, and more.
Joseph Straus
Distinguished Professor of Music Theory
CUNY Graduate Center
With a specialization in music since 1900, Prof. Straus has written numerous technical music-theoretical articles and scholarly monographs on a variety of topics in modernist music, including Remaking the Past: Musical Modernism and the Influence of the Tonal Tradition (Harvard Press 1990).
The Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo
The Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo has been presenting innovative programs of contemporary music throughout North America and Europe since 1995. Helena Bugallo and Amy Williams perform cutting-edge new works and masterpieces of the twentieth century for piano four-hands and two pianos. They have premiered dozens of works, many of which were written especially for the Duo, and they have worked directly with such renowned composers as David Lang, Peter E枚tvos, Louis Andriessen, Lukas Foss, Steve Reich, Bernard Rands, Betsy Jolas and Kevin Volans. They also collaborate with composers who explore new approaches to the piano through multimedia applications, electronics, and extended techniques.