International Villa-Lobos
Conference
Paris, France 2002
This first international
conference on the work and life of Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos is
intended to provide researchers, musicians, and all others interested in the
composer a space for discussing their contributions to the study of his legacy.
Participants will come into contact with the most recent scholarship on
Villa-Lobos, and will have the opportunity to discuss their own work with the
world's leading researchers on the subject. The conference is intended also to
establish a ground for future efficient communication among the Villa-Lobos
community, as well as for developing shared projects with partners from all
over the globe. We warmly welcome perspectives on new topics related to
Villa-Lobos's life and music, and we also encourage discussions about
well-known issues in Villa-Lobos research. We expect the ensemble of
contributions to aid in better comprehension of both far-ranging aspects of
Villa-Lobos as well as specific and central issues in the study of the
composer. We further believe that this landmark conference will be highly
effective in helping us to better enjoy and appreciate the music of one of the
most important composers of the twentieth century.
The conference will be held
in Paris, where Villa-Lobos lived during the 1920s. While symbolic as regards
the composer's life and work, this city is also the ideal location for the international
community of researchers interested in Villa-Lobos to gather. The conference
will take place at the Institut Culturel
Finlandais, in the heart of Paris.
Address: Institut
Culturel Finlandais
60,
rue des Ecoles
75005
Paris
France
Date: April 10-13, 2002
President: Pierre
Vidal
Vice-President: Eero
Tarasti
Secretaries: Luiz
Fernando Lima
Álvaro
Guimarães
Marcos de Azambuja
Noël Devos
Roberto Duarte
Gérard Hugon
José Maria Neves
Lisa Peppercorn
Mercedes Reis Pequeno
Danièle Pistone
Turíbio Santos
Ana Stella Schic
Simon Wright
The conference will focus
on a number of topics as follows:
1. Villa-Lobos:
the person
2.
Persons around Villa-Lobos
3.
Nationalism and Villa-Lobos
4.
Villa-Lobos and music education
5.
Villa-Lobos and European influences
6.
Villa-Lobos and Brazilian popular sources
7.
Tradition versus
rupture: clichés and vanguard experimentation
8.
Villa-Lobos's musical language
9. Influence
of Villa-Lobos's work on future generations
In addition to individual
papers, there will be round tables at which distinguished Villa-Lobos
specialists will present their contributions.
Also, a number of concerts
will take place during the conference, and the privileged site of the meeting
will allow easy access to the concert halls. Further information about the
program and concerts will be made available as the conference approaches.
Participants who are
presenting a paper are requested to register before the conference begins.
Conference staff will receive enrolled participants upon arrival at the Institut Culturel Finlandais. All
participants must pay the registration fee. Full-time students are asked to
present qualified proof of their status to staff members at the registration
desk. Participants attending the conference but not giving a paper may register
and pay the enrollment fee at the registration desk.
Individual papers should
last 30 minutes. That duration includes time for presenting examples and for
discussion with the audience. Persons who wish to present papers should send an
abstract before October 1st, 2001 either to this
address:
University
of Helsinki
Musicology
PL
35 (Vironkatu 1)
00014
University of Helsinki
Finland
Fax:
+358 9 191 24755
Applications by email
should be sent to the following email addresses:
Luiz
Fernando Lima <lima@elo.helsinki.fi>
Eero Tarasti <eero.tarasti@helsinki.fi>
Applications should contain
the following information in 1-2 pages:
Personal
data: name, mailing address, phone and fax numbers, email address
Short
curriculum vitae and institutional
affiliation
Title
and abstract of proposal (no more than 300 words)
Preferred
theme under which the paper should be placed
Audio-visual
or computer equipment required (please include technical details)
Papers may be presented in
English, French, or Portuguese. Notification of acceptance of submissions will
be made by November 1, 2001. Fees should be paid no later than March 1st, 2002 in the case of participants presenting
a paper. An administration cost, the amount of which will vary according to
country, will be deducted from refunds to persons who cancel their registration
after paying the fee. Refunds will be issued only if the cancellation is made
no later than ten days before the conference starts.
Registration fees:
Participants giving a paper: 600 FF
Participants
not giving a paper: 300 FF
Students: 250
FF
Fees should be paid in
French francs or in Euros to the conference bank account:
30003 03080 00037266521 36
Institut Finlandais,
Société générale, Paris Sorbonne
Villa-Lobos Museum (in Portuguese
and English): www.museuvillalobos.org.br
Institut
Culturel Finlandais (in French and Finnish): www.institut-finlandais.asso.fr
University of Helsinki: Musicology (in
English, Finnish, and Swedish): www.music.helsinki.fi
Villa-Lobos
Website (in English): www.rdpl.red-deer.ab.ca/villa
Conference date: April
10-13, 2002
Deadline for abstracts: October
1, 2001
Email addresses for
abstracts and inquires: lima@elo.helsinki.fi
eero.tarasti@helsinki.fi
Place of
the conference: Institut Culturel Finlandais
60
rue des Ecoles
75005
Paris
France
Tel:
01 40 51 89 09