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Second International Symposium on Latin American Music

“Exploring Exchange: Church and Theatre, Iberia and the Americas, Past and Present”

Program

[with corrections through Jan. 16] -- PDF version

Friday, Jan. 23, 2008

 
9:00 am

Registration Opens in Stevie Eller Theater Lobby
[The Stevie Eller Dance Theater is adjacent to the Gittings Building on the Campus of the University of Arizona, located between Campbell and Cherry Ave. at University Blvd, across from the Athletic Complex. Parking is available in the Cherry Ave. Parking Garage]

 
9:30 am Formal Welcome  
10:00 am

Session 1: in Stevie Eller Theater
Past and Present Exchange, Part 1
Keynote Address

 
  The Choral Movement in Venezuela in the Twentieth Century.
Alejandro Planchart (University of California Santa Barbara, Professor Emeritus)
 

11:00 am

Coffee Break in Stevie Eller Lobby
 
11:30 am


Session 2: Keyboard Integrations: Piano music by Brazilian composers"
Simone Gorete Machado, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão
Preto, Brazil

 

 
12:15 pm Trip to San Xavier Mission; transportation and boxed lunches provided; Tour guided by Angelo Joaquin Jr, (Program Coordinator, Arizona State Museum)  
     
3:00 pm

Session 3 - Hispanic Musical Theater Exchanges - Room 301 Dance - (Melissa Fitch, University of Arizona, chair)

 
3:00 pm

Musical-theatrical representations in the process of the evangelism of the indigenous towns in the 16th and 17th century.
José Arturo Gonzalez (University of Colorado)

 
3:30 pm


Musical theater in Mexico and the Southwest.

John Koegel (University of California, Fullerton)

 
     

4:30 pm


Break for Conversation and Dinner on your own

 
7:30 pm Session 4: Stevie Eller Theater
MUSICAL THEATER PERFORMANC
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  Chin Chun Chan - A Comic Zarzuela from Mexico. Play by Rafael Medina and José F. Elizondo with music by Luis G. Jorda. Presented by The University of Arizona Ethnomusicology Area with performers from across the university and including a guest performance by tenor David Troiano. Stage direction by Celia Madeoy, Produced by Janet Sturman.  
     

Saturday, Jan. 24, 2008

 
8:30 am Registration opens in Stevie Eller Theater Lobby  
9:00 am

Session 3 - in Stevie Eller Theater: Past and Present Exchange, Part 2
and Keynote Address

 
 

Funesta by Marcela Rodríguez and the reinterpretation in contemporary Mexico of the cultural and religious icon Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.

Maria Luisa Marina Vilar Paya (Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, Mexico)

 
10:00 am coffee break in Stevie Eller Theater Lobby; walk to the Integrated Learning Center  
10:30 am Session 4:Luso-Brazilian Exchange (Chair, Jay Rosenblatt, University of Arizona School of Music), Integrated Learning Center, Room 119  
10:30 am

An insult to both art on earth and God in heaven": José Maurício Nunes Garcia's reception and the operatic "decadence" of sacred music in Brazil. [abstract]
Marcelo Campos Hazan (Columbia South Carolina)

 
11:00 am

 


Recycling God's Songs: Modernization and adaptation of sacred music in nineteenth-century Brazil. [abstract]
Marshal Gaioso Pinto (University of Kentucky)
 

11:30 am
Brazilian Guitar Duo Performance
 

12:00 pm

Lunch - provided
 
1:30 pm


Session 6: Contemporary Programming and Performance
(Chair, Elizabeth Schauer, University of Arizona School of Music) - Integrated Learning Center, Room 119

 
1:30 pm
Translating new Spanish genre conventions into informed contemporary performances.
[abstract]
Drew Edward Davies (Northwestern University)
 
2:00 pm


Unveiling Ignacio de Jerusalem’s Los Maitines de Nuestra Señora de la Concepción (1768). [abstract]
Sherrill Blodget (Castleton State College)

 
2:30 pm

Roundtable and Open Discussion (with coffee)
Programming Latin American Music Beyond the University Setting.Suzanne Tiemstra (Grand Rapids Cantata Choir)

 
     
3:00 pm Transportation to School of Music  
3:30 pm


Session 7: The Influence of Spanish Church Organ Repertories
(Chair, Pamela Decker, U. Arizona) - School of Music
Holsclaw Hall

 
 

Spanish Organ Music: Praxis,Genres and Indigenous contributions from the Age of Columbus to the Legacy of Bolivar (1494-1830).[abstract]

David Troiano (St. Clair Community College, Port Huron )

 

4:30 pm

Break for Conversation and Dinner on your own
 


 
7:30 pm

Session 8; PERFORMANCE in Stevie Eller Theater
Los Maitines de Nuestra Señora de la Concepción by Ignacio de Jerusalem, performed by the Arizona Choir, Bruce Chamberlain, director

 
9:30pm Closing Reception at Casa Vicente