Colloque international Saint-Saëns Across Borders

This conference will explore aspects of Saint-Saëns’s musical legacy. The programme committee consists of prominent French music experts based in the UK, France and the USA: Barbara Kelly (RNCM), Clair Rowden (Cardiff University), Denis Herlin (IReMus, RNCM), Marie-Gabrielle Soret (BnF), Jann Pasler (UCSD) and William Gibbons (Texas Christian University).
 

Schedule

Thursday 3 February 2022

11.00
–
11.45

Paper Session 1: La Princesse jaune

Chair: tbc

Mitsaya Nakanishi (Japan)
Saint-Saëns et des Expos Japonais à Londres

Giuseppe Montemagno (Accademia di Belle Arti di Catania)
‘Je faisais un rêve insensé’, La Princesse jaune, Djamileh et l’orientalisme à l’Opéra-Comique

Zélie Jouenne (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Institut für Musik und Musikwissenschaft TU Dortmund)
La Princesse Jaune de Camille Saint‐Saëns : Reflet du Japonisme en France

12.00
–
12.30

Paper session 2: Saint-Saëns Sources

Chair: tbc

Marie-Gabrielle Soret (BnF, Paris)
Saint-Saëns sources in perspective

Pierre Ickowicz (Musée de Dieppe)
The Musée CSS in Dieppe, a worldwide life in memories

13.15
–
14.00

RNCM Lunchtime Concert (livestreamed)

14.00
–
15.30

Lecture Recitals 1 and 2

Chair: tbc

14.00 – 14.45: Geoffrey Burleson (Princeton, Hunter College, CUNY)
‘Camille Saint-Saëns in Egypt and Algeria:  Distilling Color and Theme in the Africa Fantasy’

14.45 – 15.30: Roy Howat (RAM, RCS) and Peter Skærved Sheppard (RAM)
Saint-Saëns in San Francisco

16.00
–
16.45

Watch papers for Session 3

(or watch in own time if more convenient)

16.45
–
17 .15

Paper Session 3: Ethology

Damjan Rakonjac (UCLA)
The Patron Saint of French Heritage Cinema, or Camille in Indochine

Jann Pasler (University of California, San Diego)
Reading against the grain in colonial Algeria: Camille Saint-Saëns and Mahieddine Bachtarzi in dialogue

17.30
–
18.30

Roundtable: Saint-Saëns in Britain

Barbara Kelly (RNCM), Clair Rowden (University of Cardiff), Geoff Thomason (RNCM), David Horne (RNCM)

Evening

Watch papers for Session 4

(or watch in own time if more convenient)

Friday 4 February 2022

9.00
–
11.00

Watch papers for Sessions 5 and 6

(or watch in own time if more convenient)

11.15
–
12.00

Lecture Recital 3: Kelsey K Rogers and Brent Rogers, Saint-Saëns’ Melodies

12.45
–
13.30

Paper Session 4: Reception

Chair: tbc

Nicholas Attfield (University of Birmingham)
‘Sobriety – but in a good sense’: Saint-Saëns, Jacques Handschin, and the New Music of the 1930s

Thomas Schmidt (University of Manchester)
Cosmopolitan Classicism in Camille Saint-Saëns’ Chamber Music

Megan Sarno (University of Texas at Arlington)
Saint-Saëns’s ‘L’art pour l’art’ as ‘Art for All’

13.45
–
14.30

Paper Session 5: Texts and Genres

Chair: tbc

Brent Rogers (Dickinson State University)
Le Feu celeste Op 115

Peter Lamothe (Belmont University, USA)
Saint-Saëns’s Unexpected Prologue for Gabriel Fauré’s Prométhée

Christina M Stahl (Technische Universität Dortmund)
‘By the Rivers of Babylon’, Un motet anglais inconnu de Saint-Saëns

15.00
–
16.00

Session 6: The Americas

Chair: tbc

Marcelo Campos Hazan (University of South Carolina) Saint-Saëns in Rio de Janeiro, 1899

Fernanda Munoz-Salazar (University of Southampton)
Fighting Wagnerism: Melesio Morales’s translation of Saint-Saëns’ Introduction of Harmony et Mélodie

David Cranmer (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
Reception in Brazil

Sabina Teller Ratner (Université de Montréal)
Saint-Saëns in America

16.15
–
17.30Live Keynote: Michael Stegemann (Technische Universität Dortmund)
Looking for Saint-Saëns – In Search of a Lost Modernist
18.00
–
18.50

Live Pre-concert Panel: Saint-Saëns today (Royal Philharmonic Society)

James Murphy (RPS), Anna Lapwood, David Horne (RNCM) and Leanne Langley (RPS)

19.30
–
20.30

RNCM Concert

Saturday 5 February 2022