Wednesday, February 22, 2017
7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Cultural Arts CA1075 Beckwith Recital Hall
Event Type
Music Dept.
Contact
Seymour, Ann
910-962-3415
Customer
Department of Music
Link
https://events.uncw.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=67109
Aaron Copland’s and Martha Graham’s Appalachian Spring was commissioned by the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Foundation in July 1942 as a chamber-dance work for Martha Graham, and premiered on October 30, 1944, at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. It has since become one of the most performed works by Copland, and the choreography still counts among the key productions of the Martha Graham Dance Company. There is much more to say, however, about its Appalachian setting, its wartime context, its choreography, and its music, as well as the broader roles of collaborative (or not) creation when combining the kinetic and the sonic on the stage. At heart lie some crucial questions: what is Appalachian Spring, and for whom?
About the presenter
Annegret Fauser (Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor of
Music and Adjunct Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies) is a cultural
musicologist whose work emphasizes how music intersects with its social, political,
and artistic contexts. Her research focuses on music of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, and in particularly that of France and the United States.
She has published on French song and opera, women composers, exoticism,
nationalism, reception history, and cultural transfer. She is author of Der Orchestergesang in Frankreich zwischen
1870 und 1920 (1994); Musical
Encounters at the 1889 Paris World’s Fair (2005); Sounds of War: Music in the United States during World War II
(2013); and The Politics of Musical
Identity: Selected Writings (2015). She is the editor of several books,
most recently, with Mark Everist, Stage
Music and Cultural Transfer: Paris, 1830-1914 (2009). From 2011−13, she was
the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the
American Musicological Society.
The recipient of the 2011 Edward J. Dent Medal of the Royal
Musical Association, Annegret Fauser was also a fellow at the
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study) in 2009−10 and a
Pardue Fellow at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at UNC (2004). In
2015−16, she was in residence at the National Humanities Center. Her
publications have been recognized by major awards, including the Ruth A. Solie
Award and the Music in American Culture Award of the American Musicological
Society and an ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award. She has been awarded
fellowships and grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the
European Research Council, the British Academy, the Arts and Humanities
Research Council (U.K.), the Fondation Nadia et Lili Boulanger, and the
Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst. She is International Honorary
Principal Fellow at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, Australia, and, in
2012, she also held an endowed guest professorship in women and gender studies,
the Käthe-Leichter Gastprofessur für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, at the
Universität Wien.
Fauser joined UNC-Chapel Hill in July 2001. She was born
in Germany, lived in Ghana and Germany, and studied musicology, art history and
philosophy at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität in Bonn, the Ecole
Normale Supérieure in Paris, and the Université Paris IV–Sorbonne. She received
her Ph.D. (Dr. phil) at the University of Bonn in 1992. Before becoming a
member the faculty at UNC, she taught musicology at the Université François
Rabelais in Tours, the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, the Humboldt Universität
zu Berlin, and City University, London.
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Photo of Martha Graham in Appalachian Spring: Library of Congress, Music Division