Music and the Arts in France – 1925: Anniversaries and Confluences

Renata Suchowiejko, Université Jagellonne (Poland). Creating to Exist: Polish Arts in France in the Service of Identity and International Prestige Alban Ramaut, Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne (France). Les musiques jouées le 28 avril 1925 pour l’inauguration de l’Exposition internationale des Arts décoratifs et industriels modernes : une erreur de casting? Tommaso Sabbatini, University of Bristol (UK). Cinquante ans de musique française and the invention of French operetta Martin Guerpin, Sorbonne Université (France). Music-hall, commemoration, and musical omnivores at the Casino de Trouville. The case of Cent Ans… sur les Planches ! (1925)

Alban Ramaut, Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne (France). Les musiques jouées le 28 avril 1925 pour l’inauguration de l’Exposition internationale des Arts décoratifs et industriels modernes : une erreur de casting?

Tommaso Sabbatini, University of Bristol (UK). Cinquante ans de musique française and the invention of French operetta.

Martin Guerpin, Sorbonne Université (France). Music-hall, commemoration, and musical omnivores at the Casino de Trouville. The case of Cent Ans… sur les Planches ! (1925)

Héloïse Baldelli, University of Stavanger (Norway) Jane Bathori: The Champion of Unconventional Voices

Madeline Roycroft, Université de Montréal (Canada). Interpretation, mentorship, collaboration: Satie, Ravel and Boulez à travers the career of Roger Désormière

Faith Thompson, RNCM (UK). Viewing Ravel’s Music through the Lens of Pierné’s: Artificiality, Originality and Productivity

Désirée Staverman, Royal Society for Music History of the Netherlands (KVNM) (Netherlands). How a Dutch woman’s choir introduced French choral music to the Netherlands

Michael Puri, University of Virginia (USA). Ravel and Strauss: Odd Couple or Kindred Spirits?

Mara Lacchè, Conservatorio G. Verdi di Torino/ Università degli studi di Torino (Italy). Ravel entre artifice et féerie, dans la pensée esthético-musicale du XXe siècle, de Jankélévitch à Boulez. L'exemple de l'Enfant et les sortilèges

Emily Kilpatrick, Royal Academy of Music (UK). ‘I’m not very cheerful when I’m alone’: Reflections on a new Ravel biography

Jonas Lundblad, Åbo Akademi University (Finland). Art primitif on stage – Revue nègre as the pinnacle of Afro-American themes in Parisian avant-garde ballet

Sabine Terret-Vergnaud, University Lyon 2 (France) and Cécile Lovén, Stockholm University (Sweden). Swedishness by the Ballets Suédois and French composers into Dansgille and Le Porcher

Christopher Moore, University of Ottawa (Canada). Queer Sailings with Les Matelots (1925)

Barbara L. Kelly, University of Leeds (UK). Jane Bathori and Music and Drama at the Vieux-Colombier

Cass Fleming, The Chekhov Collective Practice and Research Centre (UK). Suzanne Bing: Embodied innovation at the Vieux-Colombier Theatre and School

Scott Palmer, University of Leeds (England, UK). Appia, Musicality and the Art of theatre

Barbara Kelly with Andrew Thorpe, Caroline Rae, Nigel Saint, Martin Iddon (Lecture Theatre 1)

Catrina Flint, Vanier College, Montréal (Canada) Paris, 1925, and Émile Jaques Dalcroze at Sixty

Maria Kapsali, University of Leeds (England, UK) A (longer) history for sound and movement interaction

Ingrid Bols, Independent researcher (UK) Pierre Boulez on the podium: his vision and legacy in British orchestras’ programmes

Martin Iddon, University of Leeds (England, UK) Boulez and the Absurd

Clare Wilson, Dublin City University (Ireland). Celebrating André Caplet’s legacy through his poetic voice: prosodic nuance and the inter-artistic dimensions of the French mélodie.

Megan Sarno, Temple University (USA). André Caplet and the Great Composer Archetype

Kerry Murphy, University of Melbourne (Australia). The Cinquantenaire of Bizet’s Carmen, 1925: “L'œuvre n'a pas une ride; Carmen n'a pas un cheveu blanc.” (Le petit Journal illustré, 1 mars, 1925)

Asel Akbanova, École Pratique des Hautes Études-PSL, Paris (France). The 100-Year Anniversary of Marie Jaëll's Death: the early years of a renowned French pianist and pedagogue

Claire Roch, (Independent scholar) Marie Jaëll, a French woman, pianist, composer and teacher in a man's world (1846–1925)

‘Art Sung - Jane Bathori: A Dove at the Vieux-Colombier’ With Lotte Betts-Dean, Elizabeth Mucha and Julie Teal

Caroline Rae, Cardiff University (Wales, UK). Avant-Garde Artistic Confluences: Audrey Parr the Forgotten Mus

Anna Rusin, Krzysztof Penderecki Academy of Music in Krakow (Poland). Darius Milhaud’s Works from 1925 in The Context of The Composer’s Origins: A Comparative Study

with Martin Iddon, University of Leeds.

Keith Clifton, Central Michigan University School of Music (USA). Dancing through Grief: Satie, Del Tredici, and Three Gymnopédies (2003)

Ann-Marie Hanlon, University of Galway (Ireland). Erik Satie: The Healing Composer

Dir B. White

• Caplet, Inscriptions champêtres
• Ravel, Trois Chansons
• Debussy, Trois chansons de Charles d’Orléans

Barbara L Kelly

Ailish Tynan and Joseph Middleton perform music including Ravel's Sheherazade, Poulenc La courte paille, and songs by Satie and Rosenthal. In collaboration with Leeds Song. 

Maurice Windleburn, The University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong). The Sound Worlds of Victor Segalen, Paul Gauguin, and Gustave Moreau

Oliver Vogel, Independent Scholar (Germany) Erik Satie’s contribution to Dada

Mark Delaere, University of Leuven (Belgium). La route blanche de Paris à Bruxelles: E.L.T. Mesens, compositeur entre dadaïsme et surréalisme

Richard Hibbitt, University of Leeds (England, UK). Respondent

Ian Pace, City St George’s, University of London (England, UK). Developing a Performance Practice for the ‘Ultramodern’: An Analytical Perspective on the recorded tradition for Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit, 1937-1975

Iwan Llewelyn-Jones, Prifysgol Bangor University (Wales, UK). ‘Echoes of a French Pianistic Tradition: Interpreting Maurice Ravel’s Jeux d’eau from Alfred Cortot to Cécile Ousset’

Vocal Masterclass with Ailish Tynan and Joseph Middleton with University of Leeds students

Satie community event with Leeds International Piano Competition

Marina Rossi, University of Trento (Italy). «Plus de fausse musique: du meuble musical!» Drama and design in Satie’s Musique d’ameublement [online]

Henry Tedds, University of Manchester (England, UK). Satie and the Aesthetics of Insincerity in French Musical Modernism

Andrew Hugill, University of Leeds (England, UK). Uspud by Erik Satie and J. P. Contamine de Latour.

Kristin Van den Buys, Royal Conservatory in Brussels and Free University Brussels (Belgium). Erik Satie and Brussels modernist Arts world: the pivotal year 1925 (1919-1925)

Vocal Masterclass with Dame Felicity Lott and Joseph Middleton

Closing session