Dear Bach enthusiasts (esp. B-minor Mass),

I am delighted to announce the draft programme of the International Symposium: “Understanding Bach’s B-minor Mass” which we are hosting this autumn. Although the event is primarily for scholars to discuss each other’s work in depth, everyone is welcome to listen to their debate and even join in the debate. In addition to the symposium, we are also having various workshops and lectures for students (of various age groups!) as well as the exhibition of research materials. The Bach week concludes with the performance of the work by Academy of Ancient Music with Choir of Claire College Cambridge conducted by Masaaki Suzuki in Clonard Monastery (http://www.clonard.com/)

We are currently working on the administrative details (fees, hotels, etc), which will be shortly published at the following website:  http://www.music.qub.ac.uk/tomita/bachbib/conferences/Belfast-Nov2007/

If you are interested in attending, please let me know that you are thinking of coming, so that I can send you further information by email.

Best wishes,

Yo

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Dr Yo Tomita <y.tomita@qub.ac.uk>
School of Music & Sonic Arts
Queen's University Belfast
BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK
http://www.music.qub.ac.uk/
Tel +44 (0)28 9097 5206; Fax +44 (0)28 9097 5053

 

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International Symposium: “Understanding Bach’s B-minor Mass”
2-4 November 2007, The School of Music and Sonic Arts, Queen’s University Belfast

Draft Programme as of 23 April 2007

Friday, 2 November 2007

Session 1 (16:00-18:00): Historical Background (1): seen from wider context (Chair: George B. Stauffer, Rutgers University, USA)

·         Tanya Kevorkian (Millersville University, USA): “Cultural Transfer, Cultural Competition, and Religious Diversity in Leipzig during the Baroque Era”

·         Jasmin Cameron (Aberdeen University): “Placing the Et incarnatus est and Crucifixus in Context: Bach and the Panorama of the Baroque Mass Tradition”

·         Michael Maul (Bach-Archiv Leipzig, Germany): “How relevant are the Counts Sporck and Questenberg for the Genesis and Early Reception of the B-Minor Mass?”

·         Response by Christoph Wolff (Harvard University, USA)

·         Discussion

Dinner & Concert

Session 2 (20:00-21:30): Historical Background (2): seen through Bach’s contemporaries in Dresden (Chair: George B. Stauffer)

·         Szymon Paczkowski (University of Warsaw, Poland): “On the Role and Meaning of the Polonaise in the Mass in B minor by Johann Sebastian Bach”

·         Janice Stockigt (University of Melbourne, Australia): “Consideration of Bach’s Kyrie e Gloria BWV 232/1 within the Context of Dresden Catholic Mass Settings, 1728-1733”

·         Response by Ulrich Siegele (University of Tübingen, Germany)

·         Discussion

Saturday, 3 November 2007

Session 3 (09:30-11:10): Composition and Meaning (1): Aesthetics (Chair: Reinhard Strohm, Oxford University)

·         Melvin Unger (Baldwin-Wallace College, USA): “Chiastic Reflection in the B-Minor Mass: Lament’s Paradoxical Mirror”

·         George B. Stauffer (Rutgers University, USA): “The Symbolum Nicenum of the B-Minor Mass and Bach’s Choral Ideal”

·         Response by Paul Walker (University of Virginia, USA)

·         Discussion

Coffee break

Session 4 (11:30-13:00): Composition and Meaning (2): Proportion (Chair: Reinhard Strohm)

·         Ruth Tatlow (Stockholm University, Sweden): “Parallel Proportions, Final Revisions and the Status of the Manuscript P180”

·         Ulrich Siegele (University of Tübingen, Germany): “Some Observations on the Formal Design of Bach’s B-minor Mass”

·         Response by John Butt (University of Glasgow)

·         Discussion

Lunch break

Session 5 (14:00-15:40): Theology (Chair: Robin A. Leaver, Westminster Choir College of Rider University, USA)

·         Mary Dalton Greer (Cambridge, MA, USA): “Bach’s Calov Bible and his Quest for the Title of Royal Court Composer”

·         Robin A. Leaver (Westminster Choir College of Rider University, USA): “How ‘Catholic’ is Bach’s ‘Lutheran’ Mass?”

·         Response by Anne Leahy (DIT Conservatory of Drama and Music, Ireland)

·         Discussion

Tea break

Session 6 (15:40-17:40): Sources and Editions (Chair: Ulrich Leisinger, Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg, Austria)

·         Tatiana Shabalina (St. Petersburg State Conservatoire «Rimsky-Korsakov», Russia): “Manuscript Score No. 4500 in St. Petersburg: A New Source of the B-minor Mass”

·         Uwe Wolf (Bach-Archiv Leipzig, Germany): “Many Problems, Different Solutions? Editing Bach’s B-Minor Mass”

·         Hans-Joachim Schulze (Bach-Archiv Leipzig, Germany): “Tracing the Sources of the B-minor Mass before 1800”

·         Response by Daniel Boomhower (Kent State University, USA)

·         Discussion

Reception

Keynote Paper by Christoph Wolff (Harvard University, USA): “Past, Present, and Future—Perspectives on Bach’s B-Minor Mass” (introduced by Ian Woodfield, Queen’s University Belfast)

Conference Dinner

Sunday, 4 November 2007

Session 7 (09:30-11:30): Performance Issues (Chair: John Butt, University of Glasgow)

·         Jan-Piet Knijiff (Queens College & Hofstra University, USA): “Performing Bach’s B-minor Mass: Some Notes by Heinrich Schenker”

·         Uri Golomb (Tel Aviv, Israel): “Intensity, Complexity and Musical Rhetoric in Performances of the Mass in B minor”

·         Andrew Parrott (Oxford): “Vocal Ripienists and the Mass in B minor”

·         Response by Yo Tomita (Queen’s University Belfast)

·         Discussion

Coffee break

Public Q&A Session (12:00-13:00)

Lunch

Session 8 (14:00-15:20): Reception History (1): Awakening and Reception (Chair: Jan Smaczny, Queen’s University Belfast)

·         Ulrich Leisinger (Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg, Austria): “Haydn’s Copy of the B-Minor Mass and Mozart’s Mass in C Minor”

·         Anselm Hartinger (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Switzerland): “A ‘Fairly Correct Copy of the Mass?’ Mendelssohn’s Score of the B-minor Mass as a Document of the Romantics’ View on Matters of Performance Practice and Source Criticism”

·         Response by Robin A. Leaver (Westminster Choir College of Rider University, USA)

·         Discussion

Tea break

Session 9 (15:40-17:50): Reception History (2): Roundtable—B-minor Mass in continuum (Chair: Jan Smaczny)

·         Katharine Pardee: (Oxford University): “The B-Minor Mass in Nineteenth-Century England”

·         Antonin Hennion: “The B-Minor Mass in Nineteenth-Century France” (Ecole des Mines de Paris, France)

·         Jan Smaczny: (Queen’s University Belfast): “Bach and the B-minor Mass in the Fabric of Music in mid 19th-Century Prague”

·         Tatiana Shabalina (St. Petersburg State Conservatoire «Rimsky-Korsakov», Russia): “Reception History of the B-minor Mass in Russia”

·         Paul Luongo (Florida State University, USA): “Theodore Thomas’s 1902 Performance of Bach’s B-minor Mass: Working within the Grand American Festival”

·         Tadashi Isoyama (Kunitachi College of Music, Japan): “The B-minor Mass and Japanese People: a Problematical Issue of ‘Universality’”

·         Response by Barra Boydell (NUI Maynooth, Ireland)

·         Discussion

Dinner

Concert: The Mass in B-minor, Academy of Ancient Music with Choir of Claire College Cambridge conducted by Masaaki Suzuki (at Clonard Monastery)

Party

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