Nancarrow In The 21st Century

Calendar

SATURDAY
Time: Festival: Times: Conference:
    09.30h-10.00h Registration
    10.00h-10.15h Welcome
    10.15h-11.15h Keynote 1: Charles Amirkhanian Artistic Director of Other Minds, who produced and promoted Nancarrow's music and is responsible, perhaps more than any
other person, for helping the composer achieve recognition.

    11.15h-11.45h Paper 1
    11.45h - 12.00h Break
12.00h Film: Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Conlon Nancarrow: Virtuoso
of the Player Piano
A new
film by Jim Greeson with an introduction by the film maker. This film is also part of the festival. Entrance is free, but booking is essential.
12.00h Film: Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Conlon Nancarrow: Virtuoso
of the Player Piano
A new
film by Jim Greeson with an introduction by the film maker. This film is also part of the festival. Entrance is free, but booking is essential.
13.00h-14.00h Lunch 13.00h-14.00h Lunch
14.00h-15.00h PP concert 1 14.00h-14.30h Paper 2 - Mark Gotham: Multiple metres in theory and practice
    14.30h-15.00h Paper 3 - Clifton Callendar: Infinitely variable tempo canons
15.00h-16.00h PP concert 2 15.00h-15.15h Break
    15.15h-16.00h Special Guest: Felix Meyer, author and Director of the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basal, Switzerland which holds the archive of Nancarrow's work.
16.00h-17.00h PP concert 3 16.00h-16.45h Discussion with sound- sculptor Trimpin, whose work is displayed in The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall this weekend (see opposite page).
17.00h-18.00h PP concert 4    
18.00h-19.00h PP concert 5    
19.30h-21.30h London Sinf.    
22.00h-23.00h PP concert 6    

 

SUNDAY
Times: Festival: Times: Conference:
    09.30h-10.00h Registration
10.00h-10.15h Welcome    
    10.15h-10.45h Paper 4 - Nick Collins: Time maps, multiple convergence points, and computer analysis of Nancarrow
    10.45h - 11.15h Paper 5
    11.15h-12.15h Keynote 2:

Presentation by Kyle Gann, author of the most important text on the subject The Music of Conlon Nancarrow

    12.15h - 12.30h Break
12.30h-13.30h TL CMG 12.30h-13.30h (TL CMG)

Free concert in The Front Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall

13.30h-14.30h Lunch 13.30h-14.30h Lunch
14.00h-15.00h PP concert 7    
    14.30h-15.00h Dominic Murcott: Percussion>Tape>Percussion: Context, Analysis and Reinvention of Nancarrow's Piece For Tape
15.00h-16.00h PP concert 8 15.00h-15.30h Special Guest: Yoko Sugiura-Nancarrow
    15.30h-16.45h

Round table discussion: Charles Amirkhanian, Kyle Gann, Felix Meyer and Southbank Centre's Gillian Moore, chaired by Paul Archibold

16.00h-17.00h PP concert 9    
    16.45h Plenary Session
17.00h-18.00h PP concert 10    
18:00 - Arditti String Quartet

 

This page was updated on: 18/04/2012