School of Music Indiana University

 

 
 

 

The Latin American Music Center,
Carmen Helena Téllez, Director
and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Jeff Gould, Director

Juan Orrego Salas:
A Celebration of his 85th Birthday

"COMPOSER AND COMMUNITY"
AN INTER-DISCIPLINARY COLLOQUIUM

Simon Building, School of Music, Indiana University
Saturday and Sunday, December 4-5, 2004
(schedule subject to change)

Download pdf version of colloquium schedule

Saturday, December 4, 2004 - Sweeney Hall

9:00am: Opening words

Gwyn Richards, Dean of the School of Music
Carmen Helena Téllez, Director, LAMC
Juan Orrego-Salas, Founder and First Director, LAMC

9:30 am-12:00 pm - Papers in Musicology

9:30 Philip Bohlman, University of Chicago
Voicing Life in the Face of Death: Composer and Community in the Concentration Camp
10:15 Coffee break

10:30 Egberto Bermúdez, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Composers and Community in Colombia: 1550-1950
11:00 Leonora Saavedra, University of California-Riverside
Carlos Chávez, Silvestre Revueltas and the Myth of the Aztec Renaissance
11:30 Luiz Fernando Lopes, Skidmore College
Redating the Choros of Heitor Villa-Lobos

12:00 Lunch break

1:30-5:00 pm. Papers in Composition

1:30 Gabriela Ortiz, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Musical Conceptions about Baalkah and Altar de Piedra
2:15 Don Freund, Indiana University
From Idea to Audience: Layers in the Composer's Process
2:45 David Vayo, Illinois Wesleyan University
Honoring Local and Global Communities: A discussion of Porch Music, Midwestern Idyll, and Fantasía Lírica
3:15 Coffee break

3:30 Erick Carballo, Latin American Music Center
The Ginasterian Malambo
4:00 P.Q. Phan, Indiana University
From Perseus Cluster: Some Perspectives on Cultural Integrations in Music
4:30 Ricardo Lorenz, Latin American Music Center
Excommunicated Community: Where did all the Composers go?

Sunday, December 5, 2004 - Sweeney Hall

12:00-2:15 pm Papers and presentations in Cultural Policy, Reception and Promotion

12:00 Ana María Ochoa, Columbia University
The Use of Music as a Politics of Peace in Colombia in the 1990s
12:45 John McDowell, Indiana University
The Positioning of the Authorial Voice of the Corridista in the Mexican Ballads
1:15 Cándida Jaquez, Indiana University
Women Mariachi Musicians: Creating a New Audience and a New Community
1:45 Coffee break

2:00 Helane Anderson, Boosey and Hawkes
Composers and their Different Communities from a Publishing Perspective
2:30 John Nuechterlein, American Composers Forum
New Partnerships for New Music

3:30-5:00 pm, Sweeney Hall

Interdisciplinary panel led by Philip Bohlman and Ricardo Lorenz

Also participating:

Juan Pablo Izquierdo, Conducting, Carnegie Mellon
Christina Kuzmych, Station Manager, WFIU
Lewis Rowell, Indiana University
Gary Schneider, conductor, New York City
and all colloquium participants

7:00 pm, Auer Hall

Pre-concert talk with Juan Orrego-Salas and Marianella Machado (Eastern Kentucky University)
Sweeney Hall

8:00 pm, Auer Hall

Concert: University Singers, Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, and Chamber Orchestra

Juan Orrego-Salas: La ciudad celeste
J.S. Bach: Missa (Kyrie-Gloria) from the B-Minor Mass

 

Please email questions or consultations to
Latin American Music Center:
lamc@indiana.edu