Brahms on the Pacific

Brahms Conference 2019

[Emily E Hogstad @song_of_lark]

So... Brahms's sister: ~a thread~

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3/3, The second, Dr Natasha Loges (Royal College of Music), "Femininity, Fragments, and Fingers: Reconstructing Brahms's Intellectual World" https://t.co/BSh1ED1SKY @NatashaLoges

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2/3, The first, Professor Julian Horton (Durham University), "Brahms and the Theory of Romantic Form" https://t.co/Pto3FIqJbS @jhorton1969

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1/3 We had two richly engaging Keynote lectures at the Brahms conference in Irvine in February. Both are now available to view on Youtube. We express our heartfelt thanks to @NatashaLoges and @jhorton1969

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@uhde_katharina @nicoleegrimes Thank you both for your marvelous lecture recital! A highlight of the conference!

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@Frankles23

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Brahmsians on the Pacific...

A wonderful end to a wonderful weekend (and it stopped raining for us!)

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And so the sun has set on our conference. Sincere thank to all speakers, chairs, conference assistants and, in particular, to our wonderful keynote speakers. #Brahms #BrahmsIrvine #Musicology @MusicAnalysis

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And finally we heard from Robert Michel Anderson on The Nationalist Politics of Hausmusik; Sara McClure considered Brahms and German Nationalism; Jacob Gran addressed Universal History; and Vasiliki Papadopolou explored Sociological Discourses in the Viennese Press. #BrahmsIrvine

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We had lots of thought-provoking papers in our first session this morning, focusing on Brahms and Narrativity. We heard from Janet Schmalfeldt, Robert Snarrenberg, Sanna Pederson and Timothy Gonzalez. #BrahmsIrvine

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Day two ended with our second inspiring keynote, entitled “Femininity, Fragments and Fingers: Reconstructing Brahms’s Intellectual World”, presented by Dr Natasha Loges. #BrahmsIrvine

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Our second session on literature and art was equally varied and thought-provoking. Rose Mauro explored a number of themes in relation to Brahms, Goethe and Schubert, and James Lea took us across to America for a tour of Brahms-inspired poetry. #BrahmsIrvine

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Our afternoon sessions took us into the realm of literature and art. Reuben Phillips examined the impact of Schumann’s library on Brahms; Martin Ennis highlighted textural precedents for Brahms’s Requiem; and Styra Avins delved into the world of graphic arts. #BrahmsIrvine

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Beautiful playing and fascinating findings in @uhde_katharina and R. Larry Todd's lecture recital this afternoon exploring how Brahms would have heard the style hongrois in 1853.

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Part two of “After Brahms/Re-Composing Brahms” provoked a wealth of discussion, with papers from Martha Sprigge on “Rudolf Mauersberger’s Musical Reponses to the Dresden Firebombing”, and an exploration of Brahms’s reception in France from Daniel Beller-McKenna.

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We have started day two with the first of our sessions on “After Brahms/Re-Composing Brahms”. We heard from Kyle Shaw, Frankie Perry and Ryan McClelland, who explored the works of Thomas Adès, Detlev Glanert and Wolfgang Rihm respectively.

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What better to soothe jetlag wakefulness than @NatashaLoges on Schubert, ahead of her keynote at @brahmsirvine this afternoon!

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Professor Julian Horton brought day one to a close, with a rich and detailed keynote exploring his project “Brahms and the Theory of Romantic Form”.

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Our last panel of the day focused on “Brahms and Nationalism”, with thought-provoking discussions on Brahms’s Hungarian Dances from Jon Banks, and Multi-Cultural allusions in the Correspondence of Brahms, J. O. Grimm and Joachim from Katharina Uhde.

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After a wonderful lunchtime recital we turned to “Nostalgia and Historicism”, hearing from Loretta Terrigno, Joanna Chang and Jane Hines. Jane drew our attention to the connection between Brahms and Klinger, who features on the front of our conference booklet. #BrahmsIrvine