MUSIC AND EXILE: NORTH-SOUTH NARRATIVES SYMPOSIUM (27-28 January 2010)

MUSIC AND EXILE: NORTH-SOUTH NARRATIVES SYMPOSIUM (Programme)

Wednesday 27 January 2010

09:00    Welcome and introduction

  Session 1: Exile, Literature and Music

09:15    Muff Andersson

              The nomad sings, the nomad walks, the nomad rests: the ‘condition’ of exile

09:35    Matildie Thom-Wium

  ‘My country, my dry, forsaken country’: On exile in Arnold van Wyk’s, NP van Wyk           Louw’s and Ovid’s Tristia

09:55    Pamela Tancsik

              Joseph Trauneck or the Wanderings of a Persecuted Man

10:15    Questions/comments/discussion

10:45    Tea

  

  Session 2: Identities

11:15    Michael Haas

              From Bach to Schönberg: How “German” was music from fin de Siècle Vienna?

12:05    Xoli Norman

              The paradox of exile and the creative state

12:25    Stephanie Vos

              Interpreting the notion of nationality in the case of John Joubert

12:45    Questions/comments/discussion

13:15    Lunch

  Session 3: In conversation

14:00    Stephanus Muller, Steve Dyer, Warrick Sony, Michael Blake and Mokale Koapeng

              Discussion panel

15:30    Tea

  Session 4: Exile in composition and performance

16:00    Jean-Pierre de la Porte

              Exile on the spot: how does one recognize minor music?

16:30    Pre-concert talk by Mokale Koapeng (on Moerane)

              The problem with Mosoeu Michael Moerane

17:00    Keynote address: Timothy Jackson

  Biographical and Analytical Perspectives on Friedrich Hartmann's Song of the Four  Winds

18:00    Symposium ends

20:00    Concert at the Linder Auditorium - Moerane, Hartmann and Mozart

Thursday 28 January 2010

  Session 5: Places

09:00    David Coplan

              S.A. Jazz in Exile: Exporting Sophiatown and District 6

09:20    Hilde Roos

              Opera in exile: the Eoan Group

09:40    Gwen Ansell with Steve Dyer

              So close to home: South African jazz in African exile

10:00    Questions/comments/discussion

10:20    Tea

  Session 6: People

10:50    Performers workshop: Timothy Jackson in conversation with Thomas Sanderling

              Hartmann's Song of the Four Winds

11:40    Aryan Kaganof

              Blue Notes from Johnny

12:00    Chris van Rhyn

  The wingless flight – A consideration of Priaulx Rainier and her Requiem in the context  of exile

12:40    Colette Szymczak

              Jonas Gwangwa, musician and cultural activist

13:00    Questions/comments/discussion

13:30    Lunch

  Session 7: Perspectives

14:15    Christine Lucia

              The smell of a grass fire

14:35    Chats Devroop

              Emotional displacement amongst South African Jazz Musicians who stayed behind

14:55    Mokale Koapeng

              Composing in South Africa

15:15    Questions/comments/discussion

15:45    Closing remarks

16:00    Symposium ends