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: , 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 (shortened version by the composer) Mysliveček, Violin Concerto in B-flat major (Stephan Schardt, soloist) Mozart, 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 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 Michele Cabrini, Hunter College

Vinci’s Didone and Gluck’s Most Revolutionary Assault on Kurt Markstrom, University of Manitoba

7:30 pm: Concert 2, featuring the WIU Symphony Orchestra, cond. Dr. Richard Hughey All-Gluck program Sinfonia to 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