BIENNIAL

BRUCKNER JOURNAL READERS CONFERENCE

 

 

The Sixth Biennial Bruckner Journal Readers Conference

will take place on the evening of Friday 17th April, and all day Saturday 18th April, 2009, at Hertford College, Oxford University, by kind invitation of Dr. Paul Coones.

 

Speakers will include Nicholas Attfield, William Carragan, Paul Hawkshaw, Andrea Harrandt, Julian Horton, Howard Jones,

Ebbe Tørring, Peter Palmer.  

 

There will be a performance of the Bruckner’s 8th Symphony in a transcription for piano 4-hands.  The performers will be Prof. William Carragan, and Dr. Crawford Howie.

The Fifth Bruckner Journal Readers Conference, 2007

Left to right: Nicholas Attfield, Paul Hawkshaw, Ehrling E Guldbrandsen, Julian Horton,

David Alldborgh, Benjamin Korstvedt, Crawford Howie, Ebbe Tørring, Bob McColley, William Caragan

 

Mystery in the Music of Anton Bruckner

Speakers were

Nicholas Attfield, William Carragan, Erling E. Guldbrandsen,

Paul Hawkshaw, Julian Horton, Crawford Howie,

Ben Korstvedt, Ken Ward.

This conference was held in Birmingham on Saturday  21 April 2007,

 

Programme, 2007

Friday 20th April

 

19:00 - 21:00 Preliminary Session - with introductory paper presented by Ken Ward:

                                                        Seven Types of Mystery

                     Erling E Guldbrandsen: Bruckner and Mystic Experience

 

Saturday 21st April

 

09.30             Registration

10:00             Introduction and Welcome

 

10:05             Benjamin Korstvedt: ‘ja oft die besten Stellen der Wirkung beraubte’: an  essay on the   

                      early compositional history of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony

 

10:55-11:25  Coffee Break

 

11:30-12:15   Julian Horton: Bruckner and the Myth of Otherness

 

12:20-13:05   William Carragan: Bruckner’s Last Words

 

13:10-14:15   Lunch Break

 

14:20-15:05   Paul Hawkshaw: The Art of Fugue, St Florian and the Preservation of  Contrapuntal   

                                                 Symphony

 

15:10-15:50   Nicholas Attfield: Music and Mysticism in the Weimar Republic: the

                                                 Cases of Anton Bruckner and Erich Schwebsch

 

15:55-16:20   Tea Break

 

16:25-16:55   Final ‘open’ session, introduced and chaired by Crawford Howie:

                     The Element of Mystery in Bruckner’s Music