INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Music and Propaganda in the Short Twentieth Century Pistoia - 18-20 May 2012 PROGRAMME ORGANIZED BY Amici di Groppoli IN ASSOCIATION WITH UNDER THE AUSPICES OF Provincia di Pistoia CENTRO STUDI OPERA OMNIA LUIGI BOccHERINI www.luigiboccherini.org MUSIC AND PROPAGANDA IN THE SHORT TWENTIETH CENTURY International Conference 18-20 May, Pistoia, UNISER - Polo Universitario di Pistoia Organized by Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca/Pistoia Amici di Groppoli, Pistoia In association with Universidad de Granada (I+D+I HAR2010-17968. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion de España) Under the Auspices of Cassa di Risparmio di Pistoia e Pescia Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Pistoia e Pescia Provincia di Pistoia UNISER - Polo Universitario di Pistoia SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Federico Celestini (Universität Innsbruck) Roberto Illiano (Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini) Massimiliano Locanto (Università degli Studi di Salerno) Fulvia Morabito (Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini) Gemma Pérez Zalduondo (Universidad de Granada) Massimiliano Sala (Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini) KEYNOTE SPEAKERS María Isabel Cabrera García (Universidad de Granada) Gemma Pérez Zalduondo (Universidad de Granada) FRIDAY 18 MAY ore 10.00-10.30: Welcome and Registration Room ‘Cino da Pistoia’, 10.30-11.00: Opening • MAssIMILIANO SALA (President Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini) • FEDERICA FRATONI (President Province of Pistoia) • GIAMPIERO BAllOTTI (President ‘Amici di Groppoli’) • IVANO PACI (President Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Pistoia e Pescia) 11.00-12.30 - Music(ology) and Propaganda: Historiography and Methodologies (Chair: MASSIMILIANO SALA) • Sanja Majer-Bobetko (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb): Music Historiography and Propaganda in the First Half of the 20th Century: The Croatian Example • Paulo F. de Castro (CESEM, Universidade Nova de Lisboa): «Aber gewisse Dinge stehen gar nicht drin» (“But Certain Things Aren’t at All There”): On a German Conductor, a Portuguese Symphony, and the Elephant in the Room • Luis Velasco Pufleau (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, CRAL/EHESS, Paris): Music in War: Propaganda and Ideology 13.00 Lunch Room 1: 15.00-17.30 - Music, Propaganda and the Press (Chair: FULVIA MORABITO) • Daniela Gangale (Università degli Studi di Firenze): Propaganda di sinistra: l’esperienza di «Cantacronache» (1958-1959) • Lada Duraković (Università ‘Juraj Dobrila’, Pola): Musica e propaganda politica: l’influenza della stampa quotidiana sulla vita musicale di Pola e dell’Istria nel periodo tra le due guerre mondiali (1926-1943) • Maria Teresa Arfini (Università della Valle d’Aosta): L’‘arte degenerata’ di Oskar Fischinger: una propaganda anti-nazista nel cinema astratto della Berlino anni Trenta • Paul Christiansen (University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME): «Finish It, Whatever It Takes»: Musical Propaganda in Political Ads from the 2004 Bush U.S. Presidential Campaign • Harry Vandervlist (University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada): “Shostakovich, Jump through the Window!”: European Composers and the Opening of the Cold War Propaganda Battle in «Life» Magazine Room 2: 15.30-17.30 - Propaganda and Musical Institutions I (Chair: ROBERTO ILLIANO) • Pinuccia Carrer and the students Cecilia Missaglia, Emiliano Rossi, Francesco Steca (Conservatorio ‘G. Verdi’ di Milano): «Dux mea lux»: propaganda e musica nel mondo scolastico milanese • Davide Ceriani (Columbia University, New York): “Il centro irradiatore di propaganda e di sviluppo del teatro lirico nazionale”: fascismo, antifascismo e il ruolo politico del Teatro Reale dell’Opera di Roma tra le due guerre • Rosa Paula Rocha Pinto (CESEM, FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa): Propaganda e istituzioni musicali: il caso della compagnia di balletti portoghesi ‘Verde Gaio’ (1940-1950) • Javier Suárez-Pajares (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): La cupola musicale della Spagna franchista nei festival di Bad Elster: 1941-1942 21.00 - Seminario Vescovile (Via Niccolò Puccini 36, Pistoia) Jazz Concert ‘LILI MARLEEN’ Songs from the Short Twentieth Century STEFANIA SCARINZI, voice GIAMPAOLO CASATI, trumpet RENATO SELLANI, piano STEFANIA SCARINZI Born in 1967, Stefania Scarinzi was trained in Classical piano performing and singing at the Conservatorio ‘L. Cherubini’ (Florence) and Scuola di Musica in Fiesole; she is a qualified instructor of Vocal Power Method (Elizabeth Howard – Los Angeles). She has acquired a deeper understanding of the language of improvisation, arrangement and choir direction through her training with Bob Stoloff (Berklee School of Music of Boston) and her attendance of singing masterclasses by Norma Winstone, Sheila Jordan, Mark Murphy, Michele Hendricks e Jo Estill (founder of Voicecraft method). In 1997 she won a scolarship to attend specialized courses at the Manhattan School of Music at New York, where she collaborated with Terre Roche, Garry Dial, Rich De Rose. She has undertaken many concerts in Italy and beyond, collaborating with Dave Kikoski, Robin Eubanks, Cameron Brown, Garry Dial, Bob Stoloff, Fabio Morgera, Alfred Kramer, Piero Leveratto, Giampaolo Casati, Gianluca Tagliazucchi, Pietro Tonolo, Stefano Bollani, Francesco Cafiso, Werner ‘Vana’ Gierig, Renato Sellani, Bobby Durham, Bansigu Big Band di Genova and Krystian Brodacki. In 2002 she received the award of ‘best jazz talent’ from the Italian journal Musica Jazz. Between 1995 and 2005 she founded various choral ensembles: the Coro Vivavoce, the Novo Grupo Vocal, a female vocal ensemble decidated to Brazilian repertory, and the vocal quintets Voicings and Quinto Armonico. From 1988 she taught in a number of schools (Sound in Pontassieve, Blue Note, CAM and N.C.S. Il Globo in Florence, Lizard in Fiesole, Diapason in Siena, Scuola di Musica di Scandicci, Accademia musicale, New York University), and now teaches at the ‘G.Verdi’ School (Prato) and ‘T. Mabellini’ School (Pistoia). Present projects include: Lyrics and Spirits, Sempre Amore, Monk’s Point (dedicated to Thelonius Monk) and Brazil Amado. In 2004 she participated in the Umbria Jazz Festival as a guest, on the invitation of Renato Sellani. GIAMPAOLO CASATI Born in Genoa in 1959, after obtaining a D. M. A. in Pianoforte at the Conservatorio ‘N. Paganini’ (1985) Giampaolo Casati has for several years pursued concert and teaching activity in addition to acting as an arranger for Big Band and Combo Jazz. Over the years he has performed in many festivals and concerts throughout Europe, the United States, China and Japan, playing with many important Italian musicians (Giorgio Gaslini, Gianni Basso, Enrico Rava, Tullio De Piscopo, Gianni Cazzola, Piero Odorici, Riccardo Zegna, and so forth) and American ones (Charlie Mariano, Lee Konitz, Clifford Jordan, Ben Riley, Joe Lovano, Paul Jeffrey, Steve Lacy, Jimmy Cobb, John Hicks, Carla Bley, Steve Swallow, and so forth). He has made over fifty recordings, of which three bear his name only and two in which he directs the Bansigu Big Band. In addition he has participated in many radio and television broadcasts, and in the recordings of soundtracks for films and for the theatre. Teacher of Jazz trumpet at the Conservatorio ‘G. Verdi’ (Turin) and at the Scuola Musicale ‘G. Conte’ (Genoa), he has collaborated with the musical school ‘Louisiana Jazz Club’ in Genoa and the international courses of Siena Jazz, in addition to giving lectures in many Italian cities, in Marsiglia (France) and at Duke University (NC, USA). He has been and remains Artistic Director of Festivals such as Acqui in Jazz, Portofino ai confini del Jazz, Pegli Jazz, and many others. RENATO SELLANI Arriving for the first time in Milan in 1959 at the invitation of his friend Franco Cerri (at the time Milan was the meeting point of all the most important American jazz musicians), Sellani encountered Billie Holiday for the first time. In this period Sellani played in the quintet that included Gianni Basso and Oscar Valdambrini. 1960 marks the meeting with Chet Baker who chose him as the pianist for the recording of an album and a tour. He also played in Gorni Kramer’s RAI orchestra. He has commposed much theatre music, including for Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett for the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, and for Puntila and His Servant Matti by Bertold Brecht for the Teatro Stabile of Turin. Renato Sellani has performed with the greatest jazz musicians of the world, such as Lee Konitz, Enrico Rava, Dizzy Gillespie, Irio De Paula, Herb Geller, Gerry Mulligan, Stephan Grappelli, Phil Woods, Tony Scott, Bill Coleman and has accompanied many important singers, including Mina, Nicola Arigliano, Jula De Palma, Lilian Terry, Renata Mauro, Helen Merril, Ginger Rogers and Sarah Vaughan (to name but a few). In recent years he has often performed with his own trio, formed by Massimo Moriconi on bass and Massimo Manzi on drum. His output includes many records, both within ensembles and as a soloist. These display his qualities as a composer, characterized by suggestive and refined sonorities. In 2008 he was awarded the Honorary Award (Career Award) as part of the talian Jazz Awards «Luca Flores». SATURDAY 19 MAY Room 1: 09.30-11.00 - Historical, Aesthetical and Sociological Aspects I (Chair: GEMMA PÉREZ ZALDUONDO) • Francisco Fernández-Vicedo (Universidad de Granada): Spanish Music in the 50s: Composition award ‘Samuel Ros’ as a Reflection of Both the Policies in Franco’s Regime and the Transition towards New Aesthetics in Composition • Ruth Piquer Sanclemente (Universidad