INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM: UNDERSTANDING BACH'S B-MINOR MASS

Belfast, 2-4 November 2007

Timetable

Friday, 2 November 2007

Registration and Visit to the Exhibition and Posters (12:00-16:00)

Session 1 (16:00-18:00): Historical Background (1): seen from wider context (Chair: George B. Stauffer, Rutgers University, USA)

• Tanya Kevorkian (Millersville University, USA): “Cultural Transfer, Cultural Competition, and Religious Diversity in Leipzig during the Baroque Era”
• Jasmin Cameron (Aberdeen University): “Placing the 'Et incarnatus' and 'Crucifixus' in Context: Bach and the Panorama of the Baroque Mass Tradition”
• Michael Maul (Bach-Archiv Leipzig, Germany): “How relevant are Counts Sporck and Questenberg in the genesis and early reception of the B-Minor Mass?”
• Response by Christoph Wolff (Harvard University, USA)
• Discussion

Dinner & Concert in Great Hall

Session 2 (20:00-21:30): Historical Background (2): seen through Bach’s contemporaries in Dresden (Chair: George B. Stauffer)

• Szymon Paczkowski (University of Warsaw, Poland): “On the Role and Meaning of the Polonaise in Mass in B minor by Johann Sebastian Bach as Exemplified by the Aria “Quoniam tu solus sanctus””
• Janice Stockigt (University of Melbourne, Australia): “Consideration of Bach’s Kyrie e Gloria BWV 232^I within the Context of Dresden Catholic Mass Settings, 1729-1733”
• Response by Yo Tomita (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
• Discussion

Saturday, 3 November 2007

Session 3 (09:30-11:10): Composition and Meaning (1): Aesthetics (Chair: Reinhard Strohm, Oxford University)

• Melvin Unger (Baldwin-Wallace College, USA): “Chiastic Reflection in the B-Minor Mass: Lament’s Paradoxical Mirror”
• George B. Stauffer (Rutgers University, USA): “The Symbolum Nicenum of the B-Minor Mass and Bach’s Late Choral Ideal”
• Response by Paul Walker (University of Virginia, USA)
• Discussion

Coffee break

Session 4 (11:30-13:00): Composition and Meaning (2): Proportion (Chair: Reinhard Strohm)

• Ruth Tatlow (Stockholm University, Sweden): “Parallel Proportions, Final Revisions and the Status of the Manuscript P180”
• Ulrich Siegele (University of Tübingen, Germany): “Some Observations on the Formal Design of Bach’s B-minor Mass”
• Response by John Butt (University of Glasgow)
• Discussion

Lunch break

Session 5 (14:00-15:40): Theology (Chair: Robin A. Leaver, Westminster Choir College of Rider University, USA)

• Mary Dalton Greer (Cambridge, MA, USA): “Bach’s Calov Bible and his Quest for the Title of Royal Court Composer”
• Robin A. Leaver (Westminster Choir College of Rider University, USA): “How ‘Catholic’ is Bach’s ‘Lutheran’ Mass?”
• Response by Isabella van Elferen (University of Utrecht, Netherlands)
• Discussion

Tea break

Session 6 (15:40-17:40): Sources and Editions (Chair: Ulrich Leisinger, Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg, Austria)

• Tatiana Shabalina (St. Petersburg State Conservatoire «Rimsky-Korsakov», Russia): “Manuscript Score No. 4500 in St. Petersburg: A New Source of the B-minor Mass”
• Uwe Wolf (Bach-Archiv Leipzig, Germany): “Many Problems, Different Solutions? Editing Bach’s B-Minor Mass”
• Hans-Joachim Schulze (Bach-Archiv Leipzig, Germany): “J.S. Bach’s Mass in B minor: Observations and Hypotheses with regard to Some Original Sources”
• Response by Daniel Boomhower (Kent State University, USA)
• Discussion

Keynote Paper by Christoph Wolff (Harvard University, USA): “Past, Present, and Future—Perspectives on Bach’s B-Minor Mass” (introduced by Ian Woodfield, Queen’s University Belfast)

Reception

Conference Dinner at Great Hall

Sunday, 4 November 2007

Session 7 (09:30-11:30): Performance Issues (Chair: John Butt, University of Glasgow)

• Jan-Piet Knijff (Queens College and Purchase College, USA): “Performing Bach’s B-minor Mass: Some Notes by Heinrich Schenker”
• Uri Golomb (Tel Aviv, Israel): “Intensity, Complexity and Musical Rhetoric in Performances of the Mass in B minor”
• Andrew Parrott (Oxford): “Vocal Ripienists and the Mass in B minor”
• Response by Masaaki Suzuki (Tokyo National University of Music and Fine Arts, Japan)
• Discussion

Coffee break

Public Q&A Session (12:00-13:00)

• Chair: Robin A. Leaver
• Panel: John Butt, Hans-Joachim Schulze, George B. Stauffer, Masaaki Suzuki, Christoph Wolff

Lunch

Session 8 (14:00-15:20): Reception History (1): Awakening and Reception (Chair: Jan Smaczny, Queen’s University Belfast)

• Ulrich Leisinger (Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg, Austria): “Viennese Traditions of the Mass in B Minor”
• Anselm Hartinger (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Switzerland): “A ‘Fairly Correct Copy of the Mass?’ Mendelssohn’s Score of the B-minor Mass as a Document of the Romantics’ View on Matters of Performance Practice and Source Criticism”
• Response by Robin A. Leaver (Westminster Choir College of Rider University, USA)
• Discussion

Tea break

Session 9 (15:40-17:50): Reception History (2): Roundtable—B-minor Mass in continuum (Chair: Jan Smaczny)

• Katharine Pardee (Oxford University): “The B-Minor Mass in Nineteenth-Century England”
• Jan Smaczny (Queen’s University Belfast): “Bach’s B-minor Mass: An Incarnation in Prague in the 1860s and its Consequences”
• Tatiana Shabalina (St. Petersburg State Conservatoire «Rimsky-Korsakov», Russia): “Reception History of the B-minor Mass in Russia”
• Paul Luongo (Florida State University, USA): “Theodore Thomas’s 1902 Performance of Bach’s B-minor Mass: Working within the Grand American Festival”
• Tadashi Isoyama (Kunitachi College of Music, Japan): “The B-minor Mass and Japanese People: a Problematical Issue of ‘Universality’”
• Response by Barra Boydell (NUI Maynooth, Ireland)
• Discussion

Dinner at Great Hall

Concert: The Mass in B minor. The Dunedin Consort directed by John Butt (at Clonard Monastery)

Party in McMordie Hall

Last updated on 04 November 2007