CCM Presents 'Wagner & Cinema Festival' June 5 & 6
CCM, the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, presents the Wagner and Cinema Festival, June 5 & 6, 2009. The festival features a series of free lectures, performances and presentations that explore the relationship between film and the titanic masterworks of German composer Richard Wagner. CCM faculty will be joined by guest experts from academia, filmmaking, the national media and the professional performing arts.
(Media-Newswire.com) - CCM, the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati, presents the Wagner and Cinema Festival, June 5 & 6, 2009. The festival features a series of free lectures, performances and presentations that explore the relationship between film and the titanic masterworks of German composer Richard Wagner. CCM faculty will be joined by guest experts from academia, filmmaking, the national media and the professional performing arts.
The event series has been curated by CCM Associate Professor of Musicology Jeongwon Joe, for whom this topic has long been a source of professional exploration; Joe’s book, Wagner and Cinema, will be published later this year by Indiana University Press.
“Many cineastes have glorified Richard Wagner’s music drama as a model for filmmaking and film music composition,” says Joe. “‘Every man or woman in charge of the music of a moving picture theatre is, consciously or unconsciously, a disciple or follower of Richard Wagner.’ So declared W. Stephen Bush in 1911.”
She continues, “Most recently, Peter Jackson’s film trilogy The Lord of the Rings brought Wagner’s presence in cinema to the public attention. In 2005, Carnegie Hall featured a ‘Double-Ring’ concert, consisting of excerpts from Wagner’s Ring cycle and Howard Shore’s score for the film trilogy; and Alex Ross’ New Yorker article, ‘The Ring and the Rings,’ examined the affinities between Jackson’s films and Wagner’s opera. CCM’s Wagner and Cinema Festival will make another artistic and scholarly contribution to the exploration of Wagnerism in cinema.”
Opening the festival on Friday, June 5, will be a presentation by Lawrence Kramer, professor at Fordham University and author of Opera and Modern Culture: Wagner and Strauss ( Univ. of California Press, 2004 ). The topic of Kramer’s talk is “The Threshold of the Visible World: Bill Viola’s Tristan.” That evening, early film and opera specialist Paul Fryer will present a screening of Carl Froelich’s 1913 silent film Richard Wagner, which he reconstructed from an original print. Fryer will be joined by Jeongwon Joe for a pre-film talk at 7 p.m., and a discussion will follow the screening.
On the afternoon of Saturday, June 6, a roundtable of experts will convene to discuss “Wagner’s Influence on Cinema.” Panelists include Edward Rothstein, cultural critic-at-large with The New York Times; Cincinnati Opera Artistic Director Evans Mirageas; Tony Palmer, director of numerous films about composers, including Wagner, Stravinsky and Puccini; Mark Gibson, CCM professor and director of Orchestral Studies; and Paul Fryer, video artist, director of Theatre & Performance Studies at Rose Bruford College and author of The Opera Singer and the Silent Film.
The festival concludes with “Redemption Through Love,” a concert by the CCM Philharmonia Orchestra under conductor Mark Gibson, featuring Barbara Honn ( soprano ), Thomas Baresel ( tenor ) and Kenneth Shaw ( bass-baritone ). The performance includes excerpts from Wagner’s operas Siegfried, The Flying Dutchman, Götterdämmerung, Tannhäuser and Tristan und Isolde, as well as a film by Tony Palmer.
For a complete schedule of events for CCM’s Wagner and Cinema Festival, please see below. __________
University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Presents
WAGNER AND CINEMA FESTIVAL June 5 & 6, 2009
CCM faculty and guests explore the intersection between film and Richard Wagner’s opera in a series of special events. All events are free and open to the public.
Schedule of Events:
FRIDAY, JUNE 5
2 p.m. | Baur Room | CCM Village Lecture: “The Threshold of the Visible World: Bill Viola’s Tristan” Featuring Lawrence Kramer, Professor of English and Music, Fordham University
7 p.m. | Mary Emery Hall, Room 3250 | CCM Village • Pre-Film Talk: “History of Wagner’s Influence on Cinema” Featuring Jeongwon Joe, Associate Professor of Musicology, CCM
• Introduction to Carl Froelich’s 1913 silent film, Richard Wagner Featuring Paul Fryer, who reconstructed Froelich’s film from an original print
8 p.m. | Room 3250 Mary Emery Hall | CCM Village Film Screening: Carl Froelich’s Richard Wagner Discussion to follow _____
SATURDAY, JUNE 6
2 p.m. | Baur Room | CCM Village Roundtable Discussion: “Wagner’s Influence on Cinema” Jeongwon Joe, moderator
Featuring Edward Rothstein, cultural critic-at-large, The New York Times Evans Mirageas, The Harry T. Wilks Artistic Director, Cincinnati Opera Tony Palmer, film director Mark Gibson, professor and director of Orchestral Studies, CCM Paul Fryer, director of Theatre & Performance Studies, Rose Bruford College, U.K.
8 p.m. | Patricia Corbett Theater | CCM Village CCM Philharmonia Orchestra Concert: “Redemption Through Love” Mark Gibson, music director and conductor Tony Palmer, film director Barbara Honn, soprano; Thomas Baresel, tenor; Kenneth Shaw, bass-baritone
Featuring excerpts from Siegfried, The Flying Dutchman, Götterdämmerung, Tannhäuser and Tristan und Isolde, with a film by Tony Palmer. _____
ADMISSION TO ALL EVENTS IS FREE. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: www.ccm.uc.edu | 513-556-9571
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