Program "Re-searching relevance"

Conference program January 7th – 9th 2016

Thursday January 7th

08.30 Coffee and registration at Ringve Music Museum

09.00 Opening by the museum’s director Ivar Roger Hansen

09.30 Svein Gladsø: Re-searching relevance – questioning canons

10.00 Coffee break

10.30 Sigrid Egtvedt: Canon – in the eye of the beholder?

11.00 Maria-Christina Mur: Vittorio Alfieri’s Tramelogedia Abele: A physiognomic reading of a marginalized play by a canonic author

11.30 Lunch

12.30 Penelope Cave: Meeting the Masters: Repertoire Choices for Young Ladies

13.00 Katrina Faulds: Artefacts of Movement: Rediscovering Relevance in Nineteenth-Century Dance Music

13.30 Wendy Stafford: Is there any great music there?

14.00 Departure for Trøndelag Teater

15.00 Trøndelag Teater – attending the rehearsal of August von Kotzebue’s Armuth und Edelsinn (given in Norwegian as Armod og edelt sinn).

17.00 Coffee and conversation with the play’s director Sigrid T’Hooft till 18.00. Those interested, dine together

Friday January 8th

09.00 Ellen K. Gjervan: The classics of Equestrian drama – a canon in the margins

09.30 Olivia Sabee: Revisiting the French Romantic Ballet’s Exotic “Other”

10.00 Dóra Kiss: “Canonisation”, re-interpretation and re-”canonisation” of the belle dance, the example of the menuet

10.30 Coffee break

11.00 Elizabeth Svarstad: “Now please proceed to the Dancing part”. The Minuet as social education in Norway around 1800

11.30 Anne M. Fiskvik: Doubly marginalized? Scrutinizing the endeavours of two itinerant, female and “world famous” artists

12.00 Lunch

13.00 Tour of the collection at Ringve Music Museum by Mats Krouthén

13.30 Meike Wagner: August von Kotzebue – Popular playwright and controversial public persona

14.00 Svein Gladsø: The fear of irrelevance

14.30 Jon Nygaard: Ibsens’s development of trivial comedy into “serious” drama

15.00 Coffee break

15.30 Astrid von Rosen: From Haunted Historiography to Historiographic Hybridity

16.00 Mats Krouthén: Working with mechanical instruments in the context of Ringve Music Museum (till 16:30)

19.00 Conference dinner at Emilies (next to the theatre in town)

Saturday January 9th

09.30 Jørgen Langdalen: The Musical Rhetoric of Johann Mattheson

10.00 Annabella Skagen: Oehlenschläger’s Freya’s Altar: A case study of a rejected Singspiel

10.30 Randi M. Selvik: Freya’s Altar in Norway – which music?

11.00 Coffee break

11.30 Eva Hov: Out of Canon – Out of Interest? Circulation of cultural products and knowledge in informal amateur sharing networks

12.15 Gediminas Karoblis: Mesmerising waltz

12.45 Lunch

13.45 Final discussion, summary and comments (over by appr. 15.00)