The symposium is free and open to the public, and there is no need to pre-register. See LOGISTICS for directions to the Graduate Center.
Copies of Unfinished Music, newly available in paperback, will be available for sale at a 20% discount, courtesy of Oxford University Press.
9:00 Coffee, welcoming remarks
9:30-10:15
Kristina Muxfeldt (Indiana University)
“Some Consequences of Figaro”
Kristina Muxfeldt (Indiana University)
“Some Consequences of Figaro”
10:15-11:00
Lewis Lockwood (Harvard University)
"Transformation within the Frame: Beethoven's Revision of the First Movement of the Cello Sonata in A Major, Op. 69"
11:00 coffee
11:15-12:00
Scott Burnham (Princeton University)
Lewis Lockwood (Harvard University)
"Transformation within the Frame: Beethoven's Revision of the First Movement of the Cello Sonata in A Major, Op. 69"
11:00 coffee
11:15-12:00
Scott Burnham (Princeton University)
"Thresholds Between, Worlds Apart: On the Adagio of Schubert's String Quintet"
12:00-12:45
Blake Howe (Louisiana State University)
“Schubert at the 'Final Barrier'”
12:45-2:00 lunch
2:00-2:45
Leo Treitler (CUNY Graduate Center)
“Reflections on Our Mimetic Heritage from Plato to Louis Vuitton”
Annette Richards (Cornell University)
"Making Music History: Portraits, Anecdotes and C. P. E. Bach"
3:45-5:45
PAPERS AND PANEL: "Music Finished and Unfinished"
Scott Burnham, moderator
SHORT PAPERS:
Robert Marshall (Brandeis University)
"Killing--and Burying--Sebastian"
Janet Schmalfeldt (Tufts University)
"The Performer asks: 'Who am I'?"
James Webster (Cornell University)
"The Search for the Ineffable"
DISCUSSANTS:
Lewis Lockwood
Annette Richards
Leo Treitler
5:45 Reception