Program

April 12, 2008

Room M-223
Paul Creative Arts Center

University of New Hampshire

10:00-10:15   

 Welcome and opening remarks

 

 

10:15-10:45

Daniel Beller-McKenna (University of New Hampshire)

"Brahms, Memory, and Childhood "

 

10:45-11:15

Jacquelyn Sholes (Brandeis University)

"Reconsidering Allusion and Extra-Musical Meaning in the 1854 Version of Brahms's B-Major Trio, op. 8."

 

Coffee Break

 

11:30-12:00             

 Robert Eshbach (University of New Hampshire)

"Brahms in 'das Land ohne Musik': The visit of the Meiningen Orchestra to  England in 1902.

 

Lunch

 

2:00-2:30

Marjorie Hirsch (Williams College)

“Longing for a Mythic Past in Geibel Settings by Brahms and Schumann”

 

2:30-3:00  

Ryan Minor (SUNY Stony Brook)

"The Birth of Germany out of the Spirit of Song: Memory and Nationhood in 1871"

 

 

Coffee break

3:15-3:45

Benjamin Korstvedt (Clark University)

"Brahms and Walter Benjamin's 'Angel of History' "

 

3:45-4:15                                    

Tobias Hünermann (University of Cologne/UNH) 

"Compositional Reception of Brahms's ouevre in the Twentieth Century: Implicit and Explicit"