Amplifying Antiquity: Music as Classical Reception - 12-13/12/2018, London (England)

This December the Departments of Classics and Comparative Literature at King’s College London are delighted to be hosting the conference ‘Amplifying Antiquity: Music as Classical Reception’. This 2-day event brings together an array of international scholars to discuss the influence of classical myth and history on a wide range of music, composed from the 17th to the 21st centuries.

FECHA/DATE/DATA: 12-13/12/2018

LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: King's College London (London, England)

ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Emily Pillinger; Miranda Stanyon.

INFO: web - amplifyingantiquity@gmail.com

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Inscripción online / registration online / registrazione online

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Wednesday December 12th 2018: from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century 9am Coffee and registration 9.30 Introductions Comedy 1 10am Peter Burian (Duke University) Aristophanes Goes to the Opera: The Politics of Schubert’s Verschworenen and Braunfels’s Vögel 10.40 Luca Austa (Università degli Studi di Siena) Making a Joke out of Antiquity. Ancient Myth as Mockery in Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera 11.20 Break Gendered voices 11.40 Samuel N. Dorf (University of Dayton) Performing Sappho’s Fractured Archive, or Listening for the Queer Sounds in the Life and Works of Natalie Clifford Barney 12.20 Eugenio Refini (Johns Hopkins University) From Naxos to Florence via Mantua: Layers of Reception in Vernon Lee’s Ariadne 1pm Lunch Lyric 2pm Markus Stachon (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) The Triumph of Aphrodite: Youth, Love, and Antiquity in Carl Orff’s Settings of Ancient Poetry 2.40 Stephanie Oade (Oundle School) Lyric(s) in Song 3.20 Break Popular music and classical populisms 3.30 Kristopher Fletcher (Louisiana State University) Latin in Heavy Metal 4.10 Christodoulos Apergis (University of Athens) Screaming for the Gods: the Reception of Ancient Greek Hymnography in the Greek Black Metal Scene 4.50 Jo Paul (Open University) Pompeii Goes Pop: The Curious Story of Pompeii in Popular Music 5.30 Break 6pm King’s Chapel: Echoes of Hellas A recital of classically-inspired works written at King’s from 1883-2017, including music by Rioghnach Sachs (King’s College London). Thursday December 13th 2018: from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century 9am Coffee Baroque re-writings 9.30 Wendy Heller (Princeton University) Ovidio Travestito: Viewing Seicento Opera through Anguillara’s Lens 10.10 Tiziana Ragno (Università di Foggia) Ariadne and the others: A mirrored myth on the operatic stage 10.50 Theodor Ulieriu-Rostas (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris / University of Bucharest) Marsyas pardoned: rewriting musical violence for the baroque stage 11.30 Break Comedy 2 11.40 Myrthe Bartels (Durham University) Tried by Love: Socrates and Socratic philosophy in Telemann's comic opera Der geduldige Socrates 12.20 Sina Dell’Anno (Universität Basel) Corydon and Mopsa. On Bucolic Travesty in Purcell’s Fairy Queen. 1pm Lunch Women’s voices 2pm Lottie Parkyn (University of Notre Dame in England) Salieri and his deadly Danaids 2.40 Emily Mohr (University of Toronto) Carmen the Siren

3.20 Break Revolution 3.40 Ian Goh (Swansea University) Salieri’s Catilina, or: What to do about (Roman) Revolution? 4.20 Sarah Hibberd (Bristol University) Cherubini’s Médée and the Vengeful Sublime 5pm Break 5.20 Roundtable discussion 7.30 Dinner