Friday Oct 25
10am Coffee and refreshments
11am-1pm Session 1
(Note: papers will be 30 minutes long, with 15 minutes for the discussants, and 20 minutes for questions.)
Chair: John Hamilton (Harvard)
Martin Jay (Berkeley): "Adorno and Musical Nominalism" -- Discussant: Michael Rosen (Harvard)
Max Paddison (Durham, UK): "Riddle-Character, Interpretation, and Dialectical Image: Adorno’s Philosophy and the Case of Music" -- Discussant: Michael Steinberg (Brown)
1:15pm-2:15pm Lunch
2:30pm-4:20pm Session 2a
Chair: Peter Gordon (Harvard)
Lydia Goehr (Columbia): "Wagner Through Other Eyes, or The Wit of Being Brief (A Talk on Parody in the Thought of Mark Twain and Theodor W. Adorno)"
Fred Rush (Notre Dame): "Cloudcuckooland" -- Discussant: Dean Kolbas (Emmanuel)
4:25pm-4:45pm Coffee Break
4:50pm-5:50pm Session 2b
Daniel Chua (Hong Kong University): "Adorno’s Symphonic Space-Time and Beethoven’s Time-Travel in Space" -- Discussant: Alex Rehding (Harvard)
6:15pm Dinner
8pm Concert, Paine Hall
Chiara Quartet
Haydn String Quartet Op. 20, No. 2
Adorno Two Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 2
Dvorak Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 81
Robert Levin, piano
Saturday, Oct 26
10am Coffee and refreshments
11:10am-1pm Session 3
Chair: Alex Rehding (Harvard)
Tamsin Shaw (NYU) "What did the Missa solemnis mean to Adorno?" -- Discussant: James Schmidt (Boston University)
Peter Gordon (Harvard) "The Rebellion of Music against its own Iron Laws: Adorno on Wagner" -- Discussant: Daniel Jütte (Harvard)
1:15pm-2:15pm Lunch
2:20pm-3:10pm Session 4
Round table discussion of Adorno/Kolisch and performance practice
Anne Shreffler (Harvard), Daniel Chua (Hong Kong University), Daniel Stepner (Harvard, Brandeis), Moderators
Chiara Quartet
3:15pm-3:25pm Coffee break
3:30pm-5:30pm Session 5
Chair: Emily Richmond Pollock (MIT)
Brian Kane (Yale): "Physiognomy, Phenomenology and the 'Radio Voice'" Discussant: Chris Hasty (Harvard)
Martin Scherzinger (NYU): "Against Hybrids, Dialectics" -- Discussant: Joe Auner (Tufts)
Farewells
Dinner