People
Campbell Shiflett
Graduate Student: Musicology
Email:
Campbell Shiflett studies 20th-century repertoires from interdisciplinary perspectives, considering how musical signification is implicated in identity-formation.
Thu
16
Jan
Within & Without: Les Six at 100
Musicology Conference
Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020 9:30 am to 8:00 pm
Add to Calendar
Free, Registration Required
Share this event:
Event Info
Co-sponsored by The Humanities Council, The Department of French and Italian Studies, The Program in European Cultural Studies, The Program in Canadian Studies, and The Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies.
A THREE DAY CONFERENCE: January 16-18, 2020. <FULL CONFERENCE SCHEDULE>
Conference events are free and open to the public, but advance registration for the conference is requested. <REGISTRATION LINK>
One hundred years ago, music critic Henri Collet christened a group of young composers as ‘les six Français’ in his column for the Paris daily Comœdia. Celebrating the lives and music of those artists—Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, and Germaine Tailleferre—whose modern sound changed the course of French musical history after the death of Debussy, this centennial conference offers us a chance to review and reconsider our understanding of this group and its members. Our conference theme, “Within and Without,” will guide these reflections, encouraging questions not only on the nature of the composers’ collective, but also on their individual work in domains that might lie outside of the realm of strictly musical composition, as well as such issues as exclusion, influence, and identity.
This three-day event will include:
Featured presentations by
Marianne Wheeldon (University of Texas at Austin)
Barbara Kelly (Royal Northern College of Music)
Caroline Potter (Independent Scholar)
Jane Fulcher (University of Michigan)
Christopher Moore (University of Ottawa)
Deborah Mawer (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire)
Roundtable discussion on “Les Six at the Ballet,” with
Lynn Garafola (Columbia University)
Jacinthe Harbec (Université de Sherbrooke)
Elizabeth Kendall (The New School)
Simon Morrison (Princeton University), moderator
Centennial recital of works by les Six, featuring
Sylvia Kahan (City University of New York), piano
Barbara Rearick (Princeton University), mezzo-soprano
And six panels of paper presentations representing recent scholarship on les Six by international scholars.
The Department of Music has arranged for a limited number of rooms to be available to conference attendees at the Nassau Inn (the most convenient hotel to campus) from January 15th through the 19th at a special rate of $158.00 per night. To book your stay you may call the hotel at 1-800-862-7728 or visit this website to reserve a room online. Either way you will need the Booking ID/Attendee Code: 25754. All reservations must be made before December 15.
Please address all questions and concerns to the conference committee chair, Campbell Shiflett, at cps@princeton.edu.
Featured Artists