International Conference: Hanns Eisler
Institute of Musical Research, University of London

19.–20. April 2010

Vorläufiges Programm / Draft Programme

Anmeldung / Booking Form

Monday 19th April 2010

10.00am Registration and coffee

Eisler and Socialism

10.45am / Paper 1

Joanna Bullivant (University of Oxford)

The socialist composer in the ‘capitalist concert hall’: Alan Bush’s reception of Eisler in 1930s England

11.20am / Paper 2

Maria Kiladi (Royal Holloway, University of London)

The Workers’ Music Olympiad in Strasbourg

11.55am / Paper 3

Joy M. Calico (Harvard University)

Eisler’s Comintern File

12.30pm Lunch

Principles of Eisler’s Music

1.30pm / Paper 4

Geraldo Martins Teixeira Jr. (University of Brasilia)

Gestus in The Mother

2.05pm / Paper 5

Richard P. Nangle Jr. (Boston University)

The Genre-Crossing Music of Hanns Eisler as Exemplified in Vier Wiegenlieder für Arbeitermütter

2.40pm / Paper 6

Tobias Fasshauer (Freie Universität Berlin)

Eisler’s Principles of Orchestration

3.15pm Tea

3.45pm

Keynote Address: Prof David Blake (University of York)

4.45pm Short break

Exile and Resistance

5.00pm / Paper 7

Albrecht Betz (University of Aachen)

On the ‘Duration of Exile’. Eisler – Brecht – Benjamin

5.35pm / Paper 8

Florian Scheding (University of Southampton) and Andrea Bohlman (Harvard University)

Eisler on the Move: Situating Mobility in the Reisesonate

6.10pm / Paper 9

Anna Papaeti (Universität der Künste, Berlin)

Composing Resistance: Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler’s Schweyk im zweiten Weltkrieg

6.45pm Short break

7.00pm Performance

Tuesday 20th April 2010

Hollywooder Liederbuch and Composing Songs

9.30am / Paper 10

James Parsons (Missouri State University)

Hollywooder Liederbuch and Sonic Montage

10.05am / Paper 11

Jessica Payette (Oakland University)

Gesture as Connective Tissue in the Hollywood Songbook

10.40am / Paper 12

Oliver Dahin (Akademie der Künste Berlin)

What’s in a Song? Eisler’s Voices in British Popular Music

11.15am Coffee

Composing for the Films

11.45am / Paper 13

Johannes C. Gall (University of Hamburg)

Why is Composing for the Films So Difficult to Understand?

12.20pm / Paper 14

Jennifer Turner (Victoria University)

‘A real composer’s paradise’: Hanns Eisler’s approach to composition and orchestration for the film score None But The Lonely Heart

12.55pm Lunch

A Miscellany

1.55pm / Paper 15

James Garratt (University of Manchester)

‘Cheap Pseudophilosophical Phrase Making’? Eisler and the Social History of Music

2.30pm / Paper 16

Sabine Berendse and Paul Clements

Conversations with Hans Bunge

3.05pm Tea

Eisler and England

3.30pm / Paper 17

Peter Schweinhardt

My work was nil: An attempt to rescue Eisler’s peculiar Pagliacci production

4.05pm / Paper 18

Jürgen Schebera (Hanns and Steffy Eisler Foundation Berlin)

Eisler, Jascha Horenstein and Alexander Goehr: The long way to the Deutsche Symphonie in London, January 1962

4.45pm

Round Table

including Eric Hobsbawm, Alexander Goehr

5.45 Choir

Close

Conference convenors:

Erik Levi (Royal Holloway University of London),

Albrecht Dümling (International Hanns Eisler Society, Berlin)

Michael Haas (Jewish Museum, Vienna)

More information:

www.music.sas.ac.uk