Program for 9 -11 April 2024
Neue Sachlichkeit North and South – Transforming Music during the European Interwar Years (and Beyond).
Tue 9 April:
16.00 Reception
17.00 Welcome speech
17.30 Ulrik Volgsten (Örebro University) & Benedetta Zucconi (Cagliari / Örebro university): Introduction
Refreshments will be served
Wed 10 April:
10.00 Panel 1: Local reception of Neue Sachlichkeit
Discussant: Eva Moreda Rodriguez (Glasgow university)
10.00 Jānis Kudiņš (Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music, Riga):
The Representation of the Neue Sachlichkeit in Latvia During 20th Century Interwar Period. The Opera Hamlet (1935) by Jānis Kalniņš.
10.30 Michal Ščepán (Comenius University, Bratislava): Neue Sachlichkeit and the Beginnings of Modern Slovak Music.
11.00 Coffee break
11.15 Charles de Paiva (Aix-Marseille Université, PRISM-CNRS): Blending Neoclassicism, jazz and cabaret music: the playful objectivity of Les Six.
11.45 Mårten Nehrfors Hultén (Uppsala university): Neue Sachlichkeit in Sweden; two examples.
12.15 Discussant
12.25 Discussion
12.45 Lunch
14.15 Panel 2: Cosmopolitanism, Networks, and Connections with Germany
Discussant: Fritz Trümpi (University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna)
14.15 Diego Alonso (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): Roberto Gerhard and the Reception of the Neue Sachlichkeit in 1920s Catalonia.
14.45 Adele Jakumeit (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen): Between Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit? Transformations of the Handel opera revival in the light of artistic networks.
15.15 Jon Mikkel Broch Ålvik (Örebro university): Deconstructive Tonality:
Neo-classicism and Popular Music in Pauline Hall’s Suite for Wind Quintet.
15.45 Coffee break
16.00 Discussant
16.10 Discussion
18.00 Piano Recital: Anna D’Errico plays music by Ferruccio Busoni, Hilding Rosenberg, Anton Webern, Luigi Dallapiccola, Maurice Ravel
20.15 Conference dinner at Villa Källhagen, Djurgården
Thu 11 April:
09.45 Panel 3: Discourses
Discussant: Michela Garda (University of Pavia/Cremona)
09.45 Nicholas Attfield (University of Birmingham): Neue Sachlichkeit and the Problem of the ‘Austro- German’.
10.15 Jonas Lundblad (Uppsala university): Towards objective music: the ascendancy of Neue Sachlichkeit as norm in Swedish church music.
10.45 Coffee break
11.00 Johan Larson Lindal (Linköping university): A Lost Potential? ‘New Objectivity’ and The Swedish International Society for Contemporary Music (ISSM).
11.30 Giles Masters (Oxford university): Resisting Utility: Gebrauchsmusik at the ISCM Festival.
12.00 Discussant
12.10 Discussion
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Panel 4: Mechanical Music and Criticism
Discussant: Morten Michelsen (Aarhus university)
13.30 Ferenc János Szabó (Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest): Record criticism and new attitudes of music listeners.
14.00 Misha van Kan (Linnaeus University): Neue Sachlichkeit on Swedish Record Covers in the 1950s – Jazz and Neue Sachlichkeit in postwar Sweden.
14.30 Discussant
14.40 Discussion
15.00 End of conference and goodbye