All events are free and open to the public.
Friday, May 8
7:30 PM: Keynotes
- Robert Levin (Harvard University), “Text and the Volatility of Spontaneous Performance”
- David H. Bell (Northwestern University), “How Shakespeare’s Text Shifts in the Creation of Music Theatre Adaptations”
Saturday, May 9
10:30 AM: Stage & Screen Panel
- Martin Puchner (Columbia University), “What is a Dramatic Text?”
- Tiffany Stern (University College, Oxford), “‘I Have Both the Note, and Dittie About Me’: Songs on the Early Modern Stage”
- Lesley Stern (University of California, San Diego), “‘I’ve Got the Blues, Gonna Pack My Things and Go’: Music as Text in Charles Burnett’s Cinema”
2:30 PM: Music Panel
- Philip Gossett (University of Chicago), “The Written and the Sung: Ornamenting Il barbiere di Siviglia”
- Jeffrey Kallberg (University of Pennsylvania), “Mechanical Chopin”
- Roger Moseley and Members of the Historically Inspired Musical Improvisation Workshop (University of Chicago), “Mozart in maschera”
Sunday, May 10
10:30 AM: Art/Media/Dance Panel
- Mark Franko (University of California, Santa Cruz), “Notation, Reconstruction, and Reinvention in Dance”
- Christopher P. Heuer (Princeton University), Matthew Jesse Jackson (University of Chicago), and Andrew Perchuk (Getty Research Institute) present Our Literal Speed
- Steven E. Jones (Loyola University, Chicago), “Performing the Social Text; Or, What I Learned from Playing Spore”
Please contact Roger Moseley or Peter Shultz with any queries.
Persons with a disability who believe they may need assistance should e-mail or call Carl Nash at csnash@uchicago.edu or (773) 702-7423.
