“REASSESSING THE RITE: A CENTENNIAL CONFERENCE” Oct. 25-28, 2012, UNC

[Society for Music Theory]

The Conference "Reassessing the Rite: A Centennial Conference" will be
held in Chapel Hill, NC, on Oct. 25-28, 2012. For more information,
see http://music.unc.edu/

The schedule is as follows:



THURSDAY, 25 OCTOBER

5:00–6:00 OPENING RECEPTION at the Ackland Art Museum

6:30 WELCOME, Memorial Hall
Emil Kang, Executive Director for the Arts (University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Severine Neff, Eugene Falk Distinguished Professor of Music
(University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill)

6:45–7:45 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Richard Taruskin (University of California at Berkeley) “Resisting The
Rite”

8:00–9:00 CONCERT: New Music Studio (Moscow State Conservatory), Igor
Dronov, conductor
FRIDAY, 26 OCTOBER, Hyde Hall, Institute for the Arts and Humanities

10:15 WELCOME
Terry Rhodes, Professor of Music and Senior Associate Dean, College of
Arts and Sciences
(University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Mark Katz, Professor of Music and Chair of the Department of Music
(University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill)

10:30–12:00 SESSION 1: The Rite in Russian History and Culture
Matthew Franke (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), chair

Donald J. Raleigh (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
“Stravinsky’s Russia: The Politics
of Cultural Ferment”

Peter Nisbet (Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill) “Violence
(Symbolic) and Violation (Stylistic) in the Visual Arts: The Case of
the Russian Avant-Garde”

Kevin Bartig (Michigan State University) “The Rite Behind the Curtain”

Mary Davis (Fashion Institute of Technology) “Styling Le Sacre: The
Rite’s Role in French Fashion”

LUNCH

2:00–3:00 SESSION 2: KEYNOTE ADDRESS on Dance and The Rite
Chris Wells (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), chair

Lynn Garafola (Barnard College, Columbia University) “A Century of
Rites: The Making of an Avant-­‐Garde Tradition”

3:30–5:00 SESSION 3: Dancing The Rite After Its Premiere
Gina Bombola (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), chair

Gabriele Brandstetter (Freie Universität, Berlin, Institute of Theater
Research) “Re-Sourcing The
Rite: Le Sacre du Printemps and Yvonne Rainer’s RoS Indexical”
Millicent Hodson (London, U.K.) “Death by Dancing in Nijinsky’s
Rite”Stephanie Jordan (University of Roehampton, U.K.) “Sacre as a
Dance: Recent Re-Visions or How
to Make It New”
Lynn Garafola (Barnard College, Columbia University), respondent

SATURDAY, 27 OCTOBER, Hyde Hall, Institute for the Arts and Humanities

9:00–10:30 Session 4 (1): The Rite: Analysis and Compositional
Practice
Daniel Guberman (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), chair

Severine Neff (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) “How Not
to Perform Le Sacre du
Printemps?: Schoenberg’s Theories, Leibowitz’s Recording”
Gretchen Horlacher (Indiana University at Bloomington) “Rethinking
Blocks and Superimposition:
Form in the ‘Ritual of the Two Rival Tribes’ ”
Stephen Walsh (Cardiff University) “The Rite of Spring: Dionysos
Monometrikos”

11:00–12:30 Session 4 (2): The Rite: Analysis and Compositional
Practice

Chris Bowen (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), chair
Lynne Rogers (William Paterson University) “Revisiting The Rite in
Stravinsky’s Later Serial
Music”
Ildar Khannanov (The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins
University) “Rimsky-Korsakov to
Stravinsky: Gifts Other than Octatonicism”
Maureen Carr (Pennsylvania State University) “Stravinsky at the
Crossroads after The Rite: Jeu deRossignol Mécanique [Performance of
the Mechanical Nightingale](1 August 1913)”

LUNCH

2:00–3:30 Session 5 PANEL DISCUSSION: Stravinsky and The Rite in
Twentieth-Century
Russia

Oren Vinogradov (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and
Kevin Bartig (Michigan State
University), co-chairs

Svetlana Savenko (Moscow State Conservatory)
Grigory Lyshov (Moscow State Conservatory)
Svetlana Sigida (Moscow State Conservatory)
Elena Vereshchagina (Moscow State Conservatory)
Tatiana Vereshchagina (Moscow State Conservatory)

4:00–5:30 Session 6: KEYNOTE PANEL
Will Robin and David VanderHamm (University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill), co-chairs
Michael Beckerman (New York University), Richard Taruskin (University
of California at
Berkeley), Vladimir Tarnopolski (Moscow State Conservatory), Pieter
van den Toorn (University of
California at Santa Barbara)

7:00 DINNER: Institute for the Arts and Humanities

SUNDAY, 28 OCTOBER: Hyde Hall, Institute for the Arts and Humanities
10:00–12:00 Session 7 Locating The Rite: Cultural Perspectives
Naomi Graber (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), chair

Annegret Fauser (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) “Le
Sacre du Printemps: Un
Ballet…Français?”
Sindhumathi Revuluri (Harvard University) “The Rite of Spring and
Traditions of Exoticism”
Brigid Cohen (New York University) “The Rite on the Road: Travel,
Displacement, and the Ballets
Russes”
Tamara Levitz (University of California at Los Angeles) “Why 1913?”

LUNCH

2:00–3:15 PLENARY DISCUSSION: “The Rite Today”

Severine Neff (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), chair
Lynn Garafola (Barnard College, Columbia University), Millicent Hodson
(London, U.K.), Rodion
Shchedrin (Moscow, Russia), Vladimir Tarnopolski (Moscow State
Conservatory), Richard Taruskin (University of California at Berkeley)