International Conference on the Concepts and Practices of Choral Singing Lund, Sweden, October 17-20, 2012
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Choir in Focus International Conference on the Concepts and Practices of Choral Singing Lund, Sweden, October 17-20, 2012 This conference is organised by the network Choir in Focus in connection with Southern Choral Centre and Musik i Syd and supported by Allhemsstiftelsen. It will take place within the framework of Lund Choral Festival 2012 (http://www.lundchoralfestival.org/in-english/). In order to make visible and available the contemporary dynamic development of choral research, this conference aims at encouraging communication between theory and practice. With the integration of the conference into Lund Choral Festival, the purpose is to highlight interdisciplinary investigations and interaction between practice-based and historical approaches in choral research. Researching choir culture demands and encourages a multitude of research strategies in different disciplines. The papers focus the interaction of choral concepts and practices since the 18th century, especially on the following themes: 1. Conceptualisations of Choral Practices and Musics, 2. Theories and Methods of Choral Research and 3. Psychological and Social Dimensions of Choral Singing Keynote speakers: Prof. Andreas C. Lehmann, Systematic Musicology and Music Psychology, University of Music, Würzburg, Germany Prof. Karin Rehnqvist, Composition, Royal College of Music, Stockholm, Sweden Venue: Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University, Biskopsgatan 7, 22100 Lund, Sweden Conference convenors: Dr. Ursula Geisler, Department of Arts and Cultural Sciences, Lund University and Dr. Karin Johansson, Malmö Academy of Music, Lund University. Email: [email protected] Programme Wednesday, October 17 Thursday, October 18 Friday, October 19 Saturday, October 20 9.00 Keynote: Karin Rehnqvist Keynote: Andreas Lehmann Courage and resistance: Composing From vocal grooming to female for choir tenors: A music psychologist’s view Chair: Karin Johansson of choir singing Chair: Ursula Geisler 9.45 John Perkins Soila Jaakkola Mary Black Choral Soundtrack to a Short Film – Aural Training Books for Adult Choir ‘Bouncing and dancing:’ the use of Interdisciplinary and Organic Singers Showing Six Paths to verbal imagery in choral directing Processes Meaningful Aural Training Chair: Pia Bygdéus Chair: Karin Johansson Chair: Ursula Geisler 10.25 Coffee Poster: Pedro Santos Coffee Coffee The sharing of themes between the choir and the orchestra in ”Ljus av ljus” by Karin Rehnqvist Chair: Karin Johansson 10.40 Elfriede Moschitz Joy Hill Dag Jansson The a-cappella Choir Music in the The artistic impact on choral Towards a holistic model of choral Oeuvre of Giacinto Scelsi performance with young adult leadership (1905-1988) singers of newly composed music Chair: Sverker Zadig Chair: Guillaume Lurton Chair: Martin Loeser 11.20 Registration Josephine Hoegaerts Martin Ashley Lauren Holmes Frankel Little citizens and ‘petites patries’: 1000 Years and 1000 Boys’ Voices: The Tapiola Choir and Finnishness: learning patriotism through choral The crisis and radical challenge for Institutional and Government singing in Antwerp in the late choral singing Support for Contemporary Music in nineteenth century Chair: Martin Loeser Finland Chair: Guillaume Lurton Chair: Sverker Zadig 12.00 Lunch break Lunch break Light buffet 13.00 Introduction Ann-Charlotte Carlén Choir in Focus Network meeting 13.15 Ursula Geisler/Karin Johansson Mihai Bejinariu Swedish choral practice in the 20th The avant-garde generation of the century Romanian School of Choral Composition during the second half of the Twentieth Century Chair: Anne Haugland Balsnes 2 Wednesday, October 17 Thursday, October 18 Friday, October 19 Saturday, October 20 14.00 Deanna Joseph Laine Randjärv Anne Haugland Balsnes Stephen Muir A Practical Guide to 19th Century Choral singing and politics. Reper- Choral singing for a better life for From the shtetl to the Gardens and Choral-Orchestral Performance toire of Song Celebrations. Estonian persons with chronic illnesses beyond: identity and symbolic Practice Song Celebrations as driver for Chair: Gunnel Fagius geography in Cape Town’s Chair: Karin Johansson political and social change synagogue choirs Chair: Ursula Geisler Chair: Anne Haugland Balsnes 14.40 Annika Lindskog Alexander Arlt (Friedhelm Brusniak) Susan Knight Coffee “Siehe, ich sage euch ein New choral-sociological studies “You may not sing - just mouth the Geheimnis”: questioned collectivity concerning the choral society words”: Exploration of the singing in 19th century choral music movement in the first half of 19th ensemble as a site for ‘non-singer’ Chair: Karin Johansson century identity formation in childhood Chair: Ursula Geisler Chair: Gunnel Fagius 15.20 Coffee Coffee Coffee Poster: Michael Bonshor Exploration of confidence issues amongst adult amateur choral singers Chair: Ursula Geisler 15.40 Thomas Caplin/Stig Eriksson Martin Loeser Janete Costa Ruiz How does 2 + 2 become 5, in a The 19th in the 21st century? The Figurative Speech and Imagery in musical context? German male choir block buster Developing Children’s Choir Chair: Helmke Jan Keden „Die Wacht am Rhein“, „Lützows Performance wilde verwegene Jagd“ and its Chair: Karin Johansson mediality on YouTube Chair: Ursula Geisler 16.20 Jason D. Vodicka Helmke Jan Keden Graham Welch Empowerment, Engagement, and „Grüß Gott mit hellem Klang!“ The The impact of singing on children’s Transformation: A New Paradigm socio-political medialisation of sense of social inclusion in a chorus for the Choral Rehearsal bourgeois singing culture as setting Chair: Helmke Jan Keden exemplified by German films about Chair: Karin Johansson choirs in the Weimar Republic Chair: Ursula Geisler 17.15 Light buffet Light buffet Light buffet 18.30 Departure to concert Departure to concert Departure to concert 3 with composers such as H.G. Nägeli, F.X. Schnyder Abstracts von Wartensee, L. Spohr and F.M. Bartholdy. Above all, it is about identifying the local and transregional New choral-sociological studies concerning linkages and networks as the animating spirit behind the singing festival of 1838 and its impact on the civic the choral society movement in the first half as well as on Jewish emancipation movement in of 19th century Germany. The persons responsible of the festival as Alexander Arlt, Singers Museum, Feuchtwangen well as some outstanding personalities are well known, (Friedhelm Brusniak, Prof., Würzburg) indeed; still in the dark is, however, why the festival sent out groundbreaking messages to Jewish emanci- Early 19th century‟s choral society movement is seen as a pation, the civic idea of tolerance and freedom and to pacemaker of Germany‟s modern civic society. During the goal of a German nationality unrelated to social the reign of German nobility, it had gained the role of a status. In addition, there are still only very vague ideas concealed liberal opposition movement which has still as to which contribution musical culture and musical been failed to be recognized even by youngest history. practice made to the development and closeness of a Thus the first German Singing Festival (Deutsches society based on civic freedom and egality. Sängerfest) in Frankfurt am Main 1838 with its The leading role Frankfurt‟s musical life took in encompassing transregional aspiration proved to be a above mentioned development can be traced back to milestone of German liberation movement on the way to the interaction of a large number of confident free 1848‟s revolution and further on to the Frankfurt citizens. As a result, it is now about comprehending Parliament. Even the still existing “Mozart-Foundation” the organizational interlinking principles which also (Mozart- Stiftung) owes its formation to this singing expanded transregionally on other European festival and must, since its name giver also ranks as an countries. Apart from the in Frankfurt strongly outstanding representative of freemasonic mindscape, be differentiated scene of Freemasons‟ lodges, diverse seen in close context of the times‟ political development civic associations represent the most important field as well. of study. Under the restrictive conditions of Latest choral – historical and – sociological Germany‟s restoration of nobility, in early 19th century research, done in relation to an exhibition staged on civic self-will seems to have developed primarily in occasion of the German Choral Society‟s 150 year jubilee city-states. Music and song are thereby understood as during the German Choir Festival of 2012 in Frankfurt a. a medium of social and political communication, M., does not only aim to reveal the deeper background whose contribution to the development of modern of 1838‟s singing festival and the neglected contacts to civic society is yet to be determined more closely. Swiss choral society movement as well as relations 1000 Years and 1000 Boys’ Voices: The crisis response to trends toward earlier puberty and social maturity from the 1990s onwards? Choral music is still and radical challenge for choral singing coming to terms with a fundamental split between Martin Ashley, Head of Research in the Faculty of youth and adult music of the 1950s.One key outcome Education at Edge Hill University of the programme has been the digital audio database of over 1000 voices aged Martin Ashley is Head of Research in the The actual meaning of the English word between ten and fifteen, Faculty of Education at Edge Hill University, “crisis” is “turning point”. The gender individually sampled. The imbalance towards