Sibelius 150
With Ferruccio Tammaro, University of Turin
6th International Jean Sibelius Conference
Hämeenlinna, Finland
December 4-8, 2015
Schedule
Updated on Sept. 3, 2015
Friday, Dec. 4
15:00 Walking tour in the Hämeenlinna centre (Sibelius’s birth home, school, Hämeenlinna church)
Starting point: Sokos Hotel Vaakuna
18:00 Concert (Vanaja Hall, Verkatehdas)
Saturday, Dec. 5
10:00 Registration (Verkatehdas)
11:00 Opening of the conference (Vanaja Hall, Verkatehdas)
Speeches:
Erkki Korhonen (Sibelius Birth Town Foundation)
Timo Kenakkala (City of Hämeenlinna)
Eero Tarasti (University of Helsinki)
12:00-13:00 Keynote presentation I (Vanaja Hall, Verkatehdas)
James Hepokoski:
Early Sibelius, Primitivist-Modernism, ‘News of War’
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:30 Sessions IA and I B
Session IA (Kokoushuone 1/Meeting room 1, Verkatehdas)
Heikki Laitinen:
Sibelius and runo song
Les Black:
Dorian Departure
Aare Tool:
Jean Sibelius and the Modes of Limited Transposition
Benedict Taylor:
Monotonality and Scalar Modulation in Sibelius’s Tapiola
Session IB (Studio, Verkatehdas)
Philip Ross Bullock:
Sibelius Reception in Britain, 1901–1939: Centre Periphery in the Musical Construction of the North
Laura Gray:
The Tipping Point and the Rise of the Sibelius Cult in England
Helena Tyrväinen:
Sibelius and the French Press in the 1920s: Initiatives, Mediators and Interpretations
Edward Clark:
Sibelius and contemporary composers
16:30-18:00 Break
18:00 Reception hosted by the city of Hämeenlinna (Town Hall)
19:30 Concert by the Sibelius Academy students (Town Hall)
Sunday, Dec. 6
10:00-12:00 Sessions IIA and IIB
Session IIA (Kokoushuone 1/Meeting room 1, Verkatehdas
Martti Laitinen:
Why Kajanus went to St. Petersburg
Vesa Kurkela and Olli Heikkinen:
Sibelius as popular composer: Music by Sibelius in Kajanus’s popular concerts
Vesa Sirén:
(topic to be determined)
Kaarina Kilpiö:
Soundtrack for “The New Military Branch”. Jean Sibelius’s music in Finnish propaganda films during WWII
Session IIB (Studio, Verkatehdas)
Charris Efthimiou:
On the instrumentation of bass and melody line in Jean Sibelius’s early symphonic poems (1892–1894)
Pekka Helasvuo:
The formation of the mode of expression of dynamic and articulation markings in the notation of Jean Sibelius