CONF: �Mahler: Contemporary of the Past?�, Univ. of Surrey, Guildford, July 2011
AMS
�Mahler: Contemporary of the Past?�
Department of Music and Sound Recording, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, July 7-9, 2011
This conference takes the opportunity in Mahler�s centenary year to advance the scholarly understanding of his work through fresh investigation and re-investigation of cultural, historical, analytical and performance issues relating to the composer.
Particular emphasis is placed on ideas of nostalgia and historicism in Mahler�s output, and alongside these are themed sessions that address countervailing notions of modernity, as well as aesthetic theory, structuring processes, the intermedial, and Mahler�s performance and compositional legacy. The conference includes a composer roundtable discussion featuring David Matthews, Anthony Payne, and Edward Gregson.
Accompanying the conference are five concerts (including performances by Uri Caine, and the Endymion Ensemble, and a recital using Mahler�s 1836 Graf piano at Hatchlands, Clandon), an art exhibition, a sound installation, and video material relating to Mahler�s composing locations and a recent film by Beate Thalberg (ORF, Vienna).
Program at:
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/msr/news/events/gustav_mahler_centenary_conference.htm
Registration at:
http://www.ias.surrey.ac.uk/workshops/Mahler/registration.php