Music, Cinema, and Modernism. The Works and Heritage of Kurt Weill between Europe and America

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Virtual Conference, 20-21 May 2021

Keynote Speakers

Nils Grosch (Universität Salzburg)

Stephen Hinton (Stanford University)

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The conference will be in streaming on the web tv of the University of Torino at the link:

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PROGRAMME

THURSDAY 20 MAY

13.30-14.00 Opening and Welcome

14.00-16.00 Session 1

(Chair: Andrea Malvano, Università degli studi di Torino)

Wolfgang Rumpf (Radio Bremen),Treading the Line Between Operetta, Dance Music, European Avant-Garde and American Jazz: The Work and Heritage of Kurt Weill
Kara McKechnie (University of Leeds), Street Scene– Adaptation and Intercultural ‘Blend’
Sara Torrenzieri (Università degli studi di Bologna), La musica nel teatro brechtiano: teoria musicale e collaborazioni con Weill
Roberto Calabretto (Università degli studi di Udine) – Antonio Ferrara(Fondazione Ugo e Olga Levi), L’instabile esistenza delle canzoni di Kurt Weill nella distribuzione cinematografica internazionale: due casi di studio

16.15-18.15 Session 2

(Chair: Tim Carter, University of North Carolina)

William A. Everett (University of Missouri, Kansas City, KS), Kurt Weill and the American Operetta Tradition: «The Firebrand of Florence»and «Where Do We Go from Here»?
Tobias Fasshauer (Universität der Künste Berlin), «Hard to Distinguish from Cole Porter»: On the Deeper Truth of an Invective by Adorno
Naomi Graber (The University of Georgia, GA), ‘Steel Veins’: Technology, Nature, and the Documentary in «Railroads on Parade»
Rebecca Schmid (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Street Scenes

18.15-18.30 Break

18.30-19.30 Keynote Speaker 1

(Chair: Kim Kowalke, The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music)

FRIDAY 21 MAY

9.30-10.30 Session 3

(Chair: Marida Rizzuti, Università degli studi di Torino)

Andrew Holden (Oxford Brookes University), Weill’s «Lestofanti» in Italy: Changing Perspectives on «Die Dreigroschenoper»1930-1950
Valentina Garavaglia (Università IULM, Milano), Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill e il Piccolo Teatro

10.45-11.45

(Chair: Giaime Alonge, Università degli studi di Torino)

PaoloSoddu (Università degli studi di Torino), Brecht-Weill nazionale popolare? «L’Opera da tre soldi», Strehler, Milly, Milva, Modugno e gli altri
Stefano Lombardi Vallauri (Università IULM, Milano), Weill Reception in Popular Song: Vocal Interpretation from Louis Armstrong to Lou Reed to… Kurt Weill

11.45-13.15

(Chair: Pietro Cavallotti, Università degli studi di Torino)

Giacomo Albert (Università degli studi di Bologna), Prismi di idee: diffrazione dell’immagine di Weill nella critica e nella musicologia italiane
Leo Izzo – Angela Ida De Benedictis (Paul Sacher Stiftung, Basel), Weill e l’avanguardia italiana del secondo dopoguerra

15.00-17.30 Session 4

(Chair: Ilario Meandri, Università degli studi di Torino)

Francesco Finocchiaro (Conservatorio ‘C. Pollini’, Padova), On the Principle of Concertante Music: Kurt Weill’s Solution to the Problem of Film Music
Carolin Stahrenberg (Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität Linz), Multiple Voices: Casting, Dramaturgy and Composition in German Premieres of «The Threepenny Opera», «White Horse Inn» and «Call Mr. Plim»
Julia Heimerdinger (Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien), «I think if we had more freedom, we would all of us write better and possibly more contemporary music»: Discovering an Unknown 1945 Hollywood Panel Discussion on the “Role of Modern Music in the Modern Film”
Pieter Mannaerts (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Dancing with the Vampire: Wolfgang Zeller’s Music for Carl Theodor Dreyer’s «Vampyr» (1932)
Caroline Hoebens (Sorbonne Université, Paris), The View on Sound in Film of the Dutch Avant-garde Movement Filmliga and the First Sound Films of Joris Ivens

17.30-18.00 Break

Lesson – Song Performance

(Music by Kurt Weill)

Introduction by Andrea Malvano

Laura Capretti, mezzosoprano – Sandro Zanchi, pf

Programme:

Speak Low, Salomon Song,

Mack the Knife, Pirate Jenny,

Foolish Heart, Lost in the Stars

18.00-19.00 Keynote Speaker 2

(Chair: Alberto Rizzuti, Università degli studi di Torino)