stravinsky in america

Celebrating An Icon

To mark the 50th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky’s passing, our college hosted a three-day festival from February 17 - 19, 2022. This international event celebrated Stravinsky’s music, with a special focus on his life and work in America, from 1939 to 1971. We hosted a series of exciting performances by all areas of the College of Music & Dramatic Arts, as well as engaging lectures and presentations from globally renowned scholars and researchers.

Festival Information

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Thursday, February 17, 2022

9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

  • Analyzing Stravinsky
    Joseph Straus (CUNY Graduate Center), chair
    • Maureen Carr (Penn State), “Climbing the Tower of Additive Construction: The Final Movement of Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movementsâ€
    • Lina Sofia Tabak (CUNY Graduate Center), “Hypermeter in Stravinsky? A Transformational Approachâ€
    • David Keep (Hope College), “Ritual Dances: The Tarantella Finale, The ‘Sacrificial Dance,’ and Stravinsky’s Strategies in the Symphony in Three Movementsâ€
    • Jack Boss (¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Oregon), “Stravinskian vs. Schoenbergian Neoclassicism, Reexaminedâ€
    • Mark Richardson (East Carolina ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø), “Stravinsky’s Steps Toward Serialism with a Return to Dance: The Genesis of Agonâ€

1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

  • Stravinsky’s Reception History I
    Lynn Garafola (Barnard College, Columbia ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø), chair
    • Chandler Carter (Hofstra ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø), “Stravinsky’s Love/Hate Relationship with American Opera Companiesâ€
    • Patrick Domico (Indiana ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø Bloomington), “Performing Neoclassicism: Koussevitzky and Stravinsky’s Odeâ€
    • Craig B. Parker (Kansas State ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø), “Stravinsky and the Los Angeles Music Festivalâ€

Friday, February 18, 2022

9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

  • Stravinsky and the Russian Tradition
    Inessa Bazayev (LSU), chair
    • Anna Schmidtmann (¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Oxford, UK), “Stravinsky’s Late Works: Converting Counterpoint?â€
    • Gretchen Horlacher (¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Maryland-College Park), “A ‘Russian Popular Tune:’ Stravinsky on Stravinskyâ€
    • Ivan Moody (Universidade Nova, Lisbon), “Stravinsky’s Canticum Sacrum and Requiem Canticles as refractions of Russian Orthodox Musical Cultureâ€
    • David Smyth (LSU), “Emblems of Antiquity: Some Sketches for Stravinsky’s Massâ€
    • Campbell Shiflett (Princeton ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø), “On the Origin of Stravinsky’s Symphonies of Wind ±õ²Ô²õ³Ù°ù³Ü³¾±ð²Ô³Ù²õâ€

1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

  • Stravinsky’s Reception History II
    Chandler Carter (Hofstra ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø), chair
    • Michael Palmese (Maynooth ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø, Ireland), “Sovietizing Stravinsky: The 1965 Bolshoi Ballet Production of The Rite of Springâ€
    • Jennifer Messelink (McGill ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø), “‘It’s Not Stravinsky but It’s a Lot of Fun:’ Stravinsky’s Place in Postwar Popular Musicâ€
    • Lynn Garafola (Barnard College, Columbia ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø), “The 1936 Production Of Les Noces In New Yorkâ€

Saturday, February 19, 2022

9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

  • Stravinsky: Views from East and West
    Maureen Carr (Penn State), chair
    • Olga Manulkina (St. Petersburg State ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø), “Stravinsky: A View from Leningrad of the 1960s and 1970sâ€
    • Don Traut (¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Arizona), “Olin Downes and America’s Russianization of Stravinskyâ€
    • Scott Gleason (Grove Music Online), “Stravinsky in the Princeton Schoolâ€
    • Klára Móricz (Amherst College), “The Burden of Chronos: The Genealogy of Stravinsky’s Concept of Musical Timeâ€

1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

  • American Perspectives on Stravinsky
    Lynne Rogers (Mannes School of Music at The New School), chair
    • Philip Stoecker (Hofstra ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø), “George Perle’s Perspectives on Stravinskyâ€
    • Danielle Ward-Griffin (Rice ¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø), “Mediating the Middlebrow: Stravinsky’s The Flood and Music on American Televisionâ€
    • Paul Mauffray (independent scholar), “Stravinsky in New Orleans, ‘The Soldier’s Tale’ as Retold by Wynton Marsalis in ‘A Fiddler’s Tale’â€

Thursday, February 17, 2022

9:00–9:05
Inessa Bazayev
Welcome to the Festival

9:05–11:30
Analyzing Stravinsky

11:30–12:00
Virtual Meet and Greet

12:00–1:30
Lunch

1:30–3:00&²Ô²ú²õ±è;
Stravinsky’s Reception History I

3:30–5:00
Keynote with Q&A: Joseph Straus (CUNY Graduate Center), “A Portrait of the Composer as an Old Manâ€

7:30–9:00
Chamber Recital 1

 

Friday, February 18, 2022

9:00–11:30
Stravinsky and the Russian Tradition

11:30–12:00
Virtual Meet and Greet

12:00–1:30&²Ô²ú²õ±è;
Lunch

1:30–3:00
Stravinsky's Reception History II

3:30–5:30
Keynote with Q&A: Lynne Rogers (Mannes School of Music at the New School), “From Chinese Checkers to Abraham and Isaac: Compositional Games in Stravinsky’s Late Musicâ€

7:30–9:00
Chamber Recital 2

 

Saturday, February 19, 2022

9:00–11:00
Stravinsky: Views from East and West

11:00–11:30
Virtual Meet and Greet

11:30–1:00
Lunch

1:00–2:30&²Ô²ú²õ±è;
American Perspectives on Stravinsky

3:00–4:30
Keynote with Q&A: Stephanie Jordan (¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Roehampton), “Serial Stravinsky Dances: Choreomusical Interactions with George Balanchineâ€

7:30–9:30
Union Theater Concert (with pre-concert virtual presentation by Prof. Jordan)

Symposium Guests

We welcomed several distinguished guest lecturers and performers to participate in the symposium.

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Stephanie Jordan

Emeritus Research Professor
¾Å¾Å¸£ÀûÍø of Roehampton (London)

Prof. Jordan’s work on Stravinsky and dance began when she was commissioned by the George Balanchine Foundation, New York as project director for the analytical video Music Dances: Balanchine Choreographs Stravinsky (2002).

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Lynne Rogers

Edward Aldwell Professor
The New School (New York City)

Prof. Rogers's research on Igor Stravinsky’s music appears in The Cambridge Stravinsky Encyclopedia, Stravinsky in Context, and The Rite of Spring at 100, as well as in Journal of the Royal Musical Association, Music Theory Spectrum, and more.

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Joseph Straus

Distinguished Professor of Music Theory
CUNY Graduate Center

With a specialization in music since 1900, Prof. Straus has written numerous technical music-theoretical articles and scholarly monographs on a variety of topics in modernist music, including Remaking the Past: Musical Modernism and the Influence of the Tonal Tradition (Harvard Press 1990).

 

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The Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo

The Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo has been presenting innovative programs of contemporary music throughout North America and Europe since 1995. Helena Bugallo and Amy Williams perform cutting-edge new works and masterpieces of the twentieth century for piano four-hands and two pianos. They have premiered dozens of works, many of which were written especially for the Duo, and they have worked directly with such renowned composers as David Lang, Peter Eötvos, Louis Andriessen, Lukas Foss, Steve Reich, Bernard Rands, Betsy Jolas and Kevin Volans. They also collaborate with composers who explore new approaches to the piano through multimedia applications, electronics, and extended techniques.