Gluck and the Map of Eighteenth-Century Europe Conference Program
All sessions will take place in Memorial Hall unless otherwise indicated. All concerts will take place in the COFAC Recital Hall.
Friday, 17 October, 2014 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Session 1: Singers and Dancers
Welcoming remarks (Dr. Brian Locke)
Did Gluck Write for the Singers of the Paris Opéra? Annalise Smith, Cornell University
From Vivaldi to Gluck: On the Road with Anna Girò Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Stanford University
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Crossing Boundaries: Opera, Ballet, and Generic Mixtures in Parma and Vienna Margaret Butler, University of Florida
Reviving Gluck—Dancing Gluck Katherine Syer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
7:30 pm: Concert 1, featuring the WIU Symphony Orchestra, cond. Dr. Richard Hughey Gluck, Sinfonia to L’innocenza giustificata Don Juan (shortened version by the composer) Mysliveček, Violin Concerto in B-flat major (Stephan Schardt, soloist) Mozart, Chaconne from Idomeneo
Saturday, 18 October, 2014 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Session 2: The Cosmopolitan Gluck
The ‘Failure’ of the Giants: Pasticcio, Dramaturgy, and the Problem of Meaning in Gluck’s Early Career Brian Locke, Western Illinois University
Gluck, Boccherini, and the Cosmopolitan Fandango Michael Vincent, University of Florida
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Empress Maria Theresa’s China Craze and Gluck’s Le cinesi Hayoung Heidi Lee, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
Women in love: Gluck’s Orpheus as a source of romantic consolation in Vienna, Paris, and Stockholm John A. Rice, independent scholar
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm: Lunch
2:00 pm – 3:15 pm Keynote Address: Bruce Alan Brown, University of Southern California
3:30 pm – 5:00 pm Session 3: Gluck and Drama
Yearning in Circles: A New Look at the Dramaturgy of Act 1 from Gluck’s Telemaco Michele Cabrini, Hunter College
Vinci’s Didone and Gluck’s Most Revolutionary Assault on Opera Seria Kurt Markstrom, University of Manitoba
7:30 pm: Concert 2, featuring the WIU Symphony Orchestra, cond. Dr. Richard Hughey All-Gluck program Sinfonia to Ipermestra La Caduta de’ Giganti (reconstructed fragments of the 1746 opera) Sinfonia to Telemaco
Sunday, 19 October 2014 9:30 am – 11:45 pm Session 4: German Reception
Count von Sickingen’s Music Collection Paul Corneilson, The Packard Humanities Institute
Mapping Gluck’s Pluralist Identity in Eighteenth-Century German Print Culture Estelle Joubert, Dalhousie University
Johann Friedrich Reichardt and the Northern German Reception of Christoph Willibald Gluck at the End of the Eighteenth Century Eric Schneeman, Northeast Lakeview College