University of North Carolina at Greensboro School of Music -
Focus on... Paris in the 1920s - June 2008

• Thursday-Saturday June 5-7
  UNCG Music: Focus On Piano Literature Symposium, Andrew Willis, Director
  Program: Paris in the 1920s
  UNCG School of Music, Greensboro.* Times t.b.a.
  $**. 336/334-5508 or http://www.uncg.edu/mus/focus
  *All events in School of Music Recital Hall unless otherwise indicated.
  **A limited number of tickets to the three evening concerts will be available for non-registrants after 5/26. Starting on that date, call 336/334-5508 and leave a message with your name, return number, and request. You will be contacted to confirm ticket reservation.
  Admission to daytime events is by registration only. Fees: Registration includes admission to all day sessions and three evening concerts during the 2008 Focus on Piano Literature symposium. The Friday luncheon and Saturday evening banquet must be purchased separately.
  $135 (before 5/22; $145 thereafter); students $90 (before 5/22; $100 thereafter); parking $10 (covers 6/5-7); luncheon 6/6 $12 per person; banquet 6/7 $36 per person. Remit to “UNCG School of Music.” In lower, left-hand corner of check, please indicate “for FOPL." Mail to Focus on Piano Literature, attn. Andrew Willis, PO Box 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402-6170. No refunds after 5/22!

• Thursday June 5
  Focus...: Paris in the 1920s: Andrew Willis, harpsichord, Deborah Egekvist, flute, Ashley Barret, oboe, Kelly Burke, flute, John Fadial, violin, & Beth Vanderborgh, violoncello; Juan Pablo Andrade, piano; Elizabeth Loparits, piano; Dalyn Cook, piano; Vincent van Gelder, piano; & Inara Zandmane, piano
  Program: Willis & Ens.: Falla: Harpsichord Concerto (1923-26); Andrade, Lopartis, & Cook: Ravel: Frontispice (1918); Andrade & Lopartis: Gershwin: An American in Paris (1928); & Gelder & Zandmane: Ravel: La Valse (1920)
  Recital Hall, School of Music, UNCG, Greensboro. 8:00 p.m.
  $. 336/334-5508 or http://www.uncg.edu/mus/focus
  Related events on 6/5:
  9:00 a.m. Registration (Second Floor Atrium);
  10:00 a.m. Welcoming remarks, Dean John Deal;
  10:15 a.m. Lecture, Paul Stewart: “Americans in Paris”;
  11:00 a.m. Lecture, John Salmon: “Daniel Ericourt: UNCG’s Link to Paris in the 1920s”;
  11:45 a.m. Break: Lunch on your own;
  1:15 p.m. Lecture, William Goode: “Paris in the 20th Century: The Close of the Belle Epoque”;
  2:00 p.m. Lecture-recital, James Douglass & Hope Koehler “Paris's Popular Music and Poulenc's Mélodies”;
  2:45 p.m. ;
  3:15 p.m. Lecture, Keith Waters: “1920s Paris and the Art of the Everyday: Jazz, Neoclassicism, and Postwar Modernism”;
  4:00 p.m. Presentation: Dalyn Cook: “Satie’s Sports et Divertissements (1914)“;
  4:30 p.m. Presentation: Yong Im Lee: “A Chilean in Paris: Allende’s 12 Tonadas (1918-22)”;
  5:00 p.m. Break;
  6:30 p.m. Welcoming Reception (Recital Hall Atrium);
  8 p.m. UNCG School of Music Concert (see above)

• Friday June 6
  Focus...: Paris in the 1920s: John Salmon, piano; Andrew Willis, piano; Hope Koehler, soprano, & James Douglass, piano; & students from the Departments of Dance and Theatre
  Program: Salmon: Saint-Saëns: Fugues in G major & G minor, Op. 161, Nos. 3 & 6 (1920); Tailleferre: Album des Six (1919): Pastorale; Ravel-ericourt: Pièce en forme de Habanera, (1907, transcr. 1926); Ericourt: Mechanic (1929), Fantaisie (1926), & Pièce en forme de Rag (1924); Willis: Stravinsky: Piano-Rag-music (1919); Szymanowski: Mazurkas, Op. 50, Nos. 3 & 4 (1924-26); Poulenc: Nocturne No. 1 (1929); & Martinu: Czech Dance No. 3 (Polka) (1926); Koehler & Douglass: Roussel Caplet: Mélodies t.b.a.; & Salmon & Willis, with students from the Departments of Dance and Theatre: Milhaud: Le Bœuf sur le Toit (The Nothing Doing Bar), Op. 58 (1919)*
  Recital Hall, School of Music, UNCG, Greensboro. 8:00 p.m. Reception.
  $. 336/334-5508 or http://www.uncg.edu/mus/focus
  *Ann Dils and Cast (choreography/restaging); Kelly Gordon, director; Fritz Janschka, designer; & students from Department of Theatre, props & costumes
  Related events on 6/6:
  8:00 a.m. Registration (Second Floor Atrium);
  9:00 a.m. Lecture, Kelly Gordon: “A ‘Plant [Discusses] Horticulture:’ the Complicated Machinery of Jean Cocteau’s ‘Poésie de Théatre’”;
  9:45 a.m. Break;
  10:00 a.m. Lecture, Ann Dils: “Paris Dancing in the 1920s: Bricktop, Baker, and Ballet”;
  10:45 a.m. Break;
  11:00 a.m. Mini-concert: Poulenc Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano (1926) (Ashley Barret, oboe, Michael Burns, bassoon, & Inara Zandmane, piano); & Tansman Sonatine for Flute and Piano (1925) (Tadeu Coelho, flute, & James Douglass, piano);
  11:45 a.m. Break;
  .Noon Luncheon, Spencer’s, Second Floor, Dining Hall (reservations required);
  1:30 p.m. Jerome Lowenthal Master Class: Participants and Repertoire t.b.a.;
  3:00 p.m. Break;
  3:15 p.m. Lecture, Porter Aichele (Art): “Synesthesia and Simultaneity in the Visual Arts”;
  4:00 p.m. Lecture, Anthony Cuda (English): “Old Possum and the Parisian Literary Scene, 1922”;
  4:30 p.m. Break: dinner on your own; &
  8 p.m. UNCG School of Music Concert (see above)

• Saturday June 7
  Focus...: Paris in the 1920s: Jerome Lowenthal, piano
  Program: Poulenc: Aubade (1929); Stravinsky: Sonata (1924); Milhaud: [3] Saudades do Brasil: Copacabana, Ipanema, Gavea (1920-21); Fauré: Nocturne No. 13 in B minor, Op. 119 (1922); & Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin (1914-17)
  Location t.b.a. 8:00 p.m.
  $. 336/334-5508 or http://www.uncg.edu/mus/focus
  Related events on 6/7:
  9:00 a.m. Registration (Weatherspoon Art Gallery lobby);
  9:30 a.m. Group A: Video: “Montparnasse Revisited: The Composers” (Weatherspoon Lecture Hall) & Group B: Weatherspoon Gallery Tour featuring Picasso Pochoirs (assemble in lobby);
  10:30 a.m. Break;
  10:45 a.m. Group A: Weatherspoon Gallery Tour featuring Picasso Pochoirs (assemble in lobby); & Group B: Video: “Montparnasse Revisited: The Composers” (Weatherspoon Lecture Hall);
  11:45 a.m. Break: lunch on your own;
  1:15 p.m. Audience/Panel discussion (Recital Hall);
  2:45 p.m. Break;
  3:00 p.m. Paul Stewart: "Teaching the Composers of Paris in the 1920s": Suna Li, Grace Oh, Katie Yodis (Mary Alicia Cox); Zachary Ao, Lindsay Bastian, William Hueholt (Barbara Furr); April Dai, Sara Lee, Brendan Shi (Diane Higgins); Emily Tran (Dzidra Reimanis); Nicholas Allgeier, Richard He, Celia Henderson (John Ruggero); Caroline Cox, Catherine Cox (Ruth Sinclair); Justin Morrell, Lily Yuan (Tanya Smirnov); Richard Lu, Melina Smith, Ying-Ao Zhang (Mary Turner); & Danning Ge (Vincent van Gelder);
  4:15 p.m. Break;
  5:30 p.m. Banquet, Cone Ballroom, Elliott University Center (reservations required); &
  8 p.m. Guest Artist Recital: Jerome Lowenthal, piano (see above)