ANNOUNCEMENT: Symposium in Honor of Bryan Gilliam, Duke Univ. Durham, 29 Apr 2023

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Symposium in Honor of Bryan Gilliam
Saturday, April 29, 2023
Biddle Music Building, Duke University

Please join us for a special symposium honoring Bryan Gilliam (Duke University) on the occasion of his retirement. Colleagues and former students will offer tributes, papers, and a musical performance throughout the day.

9:30 – 10:00 Coffee and check-in

10:00 – 10:30 Welcome: Jonathan Bagg, Chair, Department of Music, Duke University

Tribute: Lily Hirsch
Tribute: Camille Crittenden

10:30 – 11:45 Session I: Strauss (Chair: Joy Calico)
Wayne Heisler, Jr.: “(Re)‘Cycling’ Strauss Lieder in Eliot Feld's Ballet Early Songs (1970)”
Tribute: Scott Warfield
Charles Youmans: “Straussian Musico-Dramatic Organization in Max Steiner’s Score for The Searchers”
Tribute: Morten Kristiansen

11:45 Coffee Break

12:00 – 1:15 Session II: Opera (Not Strauss) (Chair: Neil Lerner)
Joy Calico: “Breathing and Gasping”
Tribute: Paul Sommerfeld
Alexandra Monchick: “Orientalist Jazz and the Sonic Color of Race in Weimar Germany”
Tribute: Philip Rupprecht

1:15 – 2:45 Lunch Break
Location: Bone Hall

2:45 – 4:00 Session III (Chair: Charles Youmans)
Tribute: Pamela Potter
Julie Hubbert: “Vergessen Visconti: Mahler, Auteurism and Tàr”
Tribute: Kim Kowalke
Neil Lerner: “Pinball's Film Music: 1970s - 2020s”
Tribute: Caroline Kita

4:00 – 4:15 Break

4:15 – 4:30 Tributes
Tribute: Heidi Hart
Tribute: Yana Lowry
Tribute: Stephen Hinton

4:30 – 5:00 Performance
Sonata for Cello and Piano in F Major, Op. 6
Allegro con brio
Andante ma non troppo
Finale – Allegro vivo

R. Larry Todd, piano
Caroline Stinson, cello

5:00 Reception