Opening Address by John Deathridge,
King's College, London
Globalization and Markets
History and Nationalism
Media and Film
Gender and Sexuality
Environment and Nature
Keynote Lecture by Alex Ross,
music critic of The New Yorker
University of South Carolina,
Columbia, USA
Shanghai
Conservatory of
Music, China
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Opera Village Burkina Faso
WagnerWorldWide Project Partners:
fimt – Forschungsinstitut für Musiktheater der
Universität Bayreuth
Universität Bern
WagnerWorldWide:America
Universität Bern, Schweiz
Conference talks will be uploaded to the WagnerWorldWide channel on YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/user/WagnerWorldWide
Universität Bayreuth, Deutschland
Organizers:
Nicholas Vazsonyi,
(Dept. of Languages, Literatures & Cultures)
Julie Hubbert (School of Music)
Recital Hall
School of Music
813 Assembly Street
Columbia, SC 29208
We are grateful to the following sponsors
for their support:
University of South Carolina
Office of the Provost
Dean, College of Arts & Sciences
Comparative Literature Program
School of Music
German Program
Jewish Studies
The History Center
Women’s & Gender Studies
Film & Media Studies
African American Studies
External Sponsors
DAAD - German Academic Exchange Service
Luise Peake Music History Fund
Mariann-Steegmann-Foundation
For more information, please contact:
Nicholas Vazsonyi ([email protected] / 803.777.8444)
Julie Hubbert ([email protected] / 803.777.2314)
www2013:
WagnerWorldWide 2013
15th Annual Comparative
Literature Conference
Recital Hall
School of Music
January 31 – February 2, 2013
Hosted by the College of Arts & Sciences
and the School of Music at the University
of South Carolina
Tayloe Harding (Dean, USC School of Music), Mary Anne Fitzpatrick (Dean,
USC College of Arts & Sciences), Nicholas Vazsonyi, (Dept. of Languages,
Literatures & Cultures), Julie Hubbert, (School of Music)
Wagner and the Kaiserreich, Hermann Grampp (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
5:30-7:30_///Reception & Dinner
Hosted by Michael Amiridis, Provost USC
7:30-9:00 _///Keynote Address: Alex Ross
“Black Wagner: African-American Wagnerism and the Question of Race Revisited“
8:30-10:30 _///Cinema/Media
Moderator: Julie Hubbert (University of South Carolina)
From Photographs & Cylinders to SACD & Blu-Ray: Wagner & Advances in
Recording Media, David Breckbill (Doane College, Nebraska)
9:00-9:45 _///Opening Address: Living with Wagner
John Deathridge (King’s College, London, UK)
Wagner on DVD – Musical Form and the Gaze of “Regietheater”
Christian Thorau (Universität Potsdam, Germany)
10:00-11:00 _///Music
Moderator: J. Daniel Jenkins (University of South Carolina)
Wagner, Intertextuality & Contemporary Audio-Visual Culture
Walter Carl Metz (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale)
Wagner’s Electrifying Thoughts, David Trippett (Cambridge University, UK)
Wagner’s Legacy in the Leitmotivic Film Score
Matthew Bribitzer-Stull (University of Minnesota)
Hans Werner Henze, Wagner, and the Weight of German Musical Culture
Mark Berry (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
Coffee Break
11:15-12:45 _///Eroticism
Moderator: John Deathridge (King’s College, London, UK)
Coffee Break
10:45-12:15 _///Gender Identities
Moderator: Yvonne Ivory (University of South Carolina)
Performance, Genius, Sex: Wagner and Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient
Anno Mungen (Forschungsinstitut für Musiktheater, U. Bayreuth, Germany)
Unspeakable Songs: History and Sexuality in Tannhäuser
William Scott (University of Pittsburgh)
Wagner Unmanned, Sanna Pederson (University of Oklahoma)
Isolde’s Multiple Orgasms: Sexology and Wagner’s Transfiguration
Susan de Ghizé (University of Texas, Brownsville)
The Brünnhilde Problem: Wagner’s German Women
Celia Applegate (Vanderbilt University)
Sexual Adultery and Musical Deafness: Who Can Hear the Orchestra?
Different Productions of Tristan und Isolde
Erling E. Guldbrandsen (University of Oslo, Norway)
Lunch
813 Assembly Street, Columbia, SC 29208
Friday, February 1
8:30-9:00 Welcoming Remarks
Recital Hall, School of Music,
Dinner
Saturday, February 2
Evening
7:30-9:00 _///Film Screening
Option 1: Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (Dir. Fritz Lang, 1924)
with live musical accompaniment by Dennis James
Option 2: Stukas (Dir. Karl Ritter, 1941)
Thursday, January 31
Afternoon/Arrivals
January 31 – February 2, 2013
Friday, February 1
Thursday, January 31
Wednesday, January 30
WagnerWorldWide:America
9:00-11:00 _///Parsifal
Moderator: Mark Berry (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)
7:30-9:00 _///World Premiere Screening: Wagner’s Jews (Documentary Film)
Introduced by the Filmmaker, Hilan Warshaw (Barnard College, New York)
Moderator: Laura Kissel (University of South Carolina)
[Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program, USC]
Space and Place in Parsifal, Holly Watkins (Eastman School of Music)
Wagner’s Parsifal as Art and Ideology, 1882-1933, William Kinderman
(University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Parsifal and VALIS: Timeless Wounds, Pink Lasers, and Consecrated Stages
Daniel Sheridan (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada)
Bayreuth as Bardo: Schlingensief’s Parsifal Production
Edward A. Bortnichak and Paula M. Bortnichak (University of Pennsylvania)
Coffee Break
11:15-12:15 _///Gender
Moderator: Sanna Pederson (University of Oklahoma)
Rings within Rings: Wedding Bands as Cyclic Structures in Wagner’s Ring
Cycle, Steven B. Reale (Youngstown State University, Ohio)
Paradoxes of Bildung in Die Meistersinger
Benjamin M. Korstvedt (Clark University, Massachusetts)
Lunch
1:45-2:45 _///Environment II
Moderator: Anno Mungen (Forschungsinstitut für Musiktheater, U. Bayreuth, G.)
Lunch
The Ring as Eco-Parable, Thomas S. Grey (Stanford University)
2:15-3:15 _///Environment I
Moderator: Thomas S. Grey (Stanford University)
“Kunst und Klima”: Wagner, Nationalism and the Natural World
Roger Allen (Oxford University, UK)
Rousseau and The Ring, Simon Williams (U. California, Santa Barbara)
Transforming Wagner: Francesca Zambello’s San Francisco Ring Cycle
Geoffrey Green (San Francisco State University)
2:00-3:15 _///Marketing
Moderator: Nicholas Vazsonyi (University of South Carolina)
The View from Weimar: (Mis-)Promoting Wagner
James Deaville (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada)
Globalization, Music Publishing and the Domestic Reception of Musikdrama
Matthew Blackmar (California State University, Long Beach)
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30-5:00 _///Pop Culture/Local Culture
Moderator: Julie Hubbert (University of South Carolina)
3:00-5:00 _///Third Reich & Israel
Moderator: Nicholas Vazsonyi (University of South Carolina)
Wagner, Camillo Sitte, and the Modern Slow Movement
Stephen Thursby (University of South Carolina)
Wagner in the “Cult of Art in Nazi Germany”, David Dennis
(Loyola University Chicago)
Diggin’ the Ring: An American Folk Opera
Ryan F. Smith (University of South Carolina)
Bayreuth and the German War Effort. Karl Ritter's Stukas and the Use of
Wagner in Nazi Cinema, Hans Vaget (Emer. Smith College, Massachusets)
Never Ask the Merry Nibelungs: Wagner in Operetta from Critique to
Aspiration, Micaela Baranello (Princeton University)
Wagner in Israel: Between Memory and Liberalism, Na’ama Sheffi
(Sapir College, Israel), [Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program, USC]
5:30-7:30 _///Dinner – Southern BBQ Bash
7:30-10:00 _///Das Barbecü (USC Opera, Drayton Hall)
Coffee Break
3:30-5:00 _///19th-Century Nationalism
Moderator: Celia Applegate (Vanderbilt University)
“Der Kern des Ganzen“: The Political Dimension of Wagner's Organic
Metaphor, Katherine Syer (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
What Does it Mean for Music Drama to be “National” Art? Revisiting the Case
of Wagner, Anthony J. Steinhoff (Université de Québec à Montréal)