Fifth Annual Lyrica Dialogues at Harvard: "FRANCE THE LEWD--FRANCE THE PRUDE?" April 8, 2011

The Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations is pleased to announce its Fifth Annual Lyrica Dialogues at Harvard:

"FRANCE THE LEWD--FRANCE THE PRUDE?"
Friday, 8 April 2011, 8:30 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Pusey Room, The Memorial Church, Harvard Yard Cambridge, Massachusetts

Scholars from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., France and The Netherlands will present their research:

KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Daniel Albright, Harvard University Musings on Maeterlinck, Mélisande and Mélusine

Samuel Dorf, University of Dayton
Hellenizing French Musical Neoclassicism: Polignac, Satie and the Aesthetics of Austerity

Helen Julia Minors, Kingston University (UK) Ambiguous (Feminist?) Sources and Cultural Contexts of Paul Dukas’s "La Peri"
and "Ariane et Barbe-Bleue"

Sander van Maas, Utrecht University
Between Divan and Screen: Messiaen and Psychoanalysis

Mark Seto, Columbia University
Franck’s "Psyche" and the Sublimation of Desire

Caroline Potter, Kingston University (UK) Sources for the text of Erik Satie’s "Obstacles venimeux"

Trent Leipert, University of Chicago
“Chanter sans sexe ?” Rubbing out the Male Subject in Serge Gainsbourg’s Early Songs

Rebecca Dowd Geoffroy, Duke University
La petite porte secrette: François Devienne’s "Les Visitandines," Satan, and the Reign of Terror

Sean Parr, Dickinson College
Dance and the Female Singer in the Second Empire

Colette Simonot, McGill University
Francis Poulenc’s "Les Mamelles de Tiresias" as an Opera of the Resistance

Respondent: Peter Laki, Bard College

Admission is free