The Cdmc holds a unique collection representing all aesthetics within musical creation. This collection has grown thanks to the collaboration of composers, publishers and Radio France. With a consultation area open to the public, the centre also affords access to many online resources through the Catalogue and the Gateway to Contemporary Music. A beacon of the latest music news with its website, the Cdmc organises encounters with the movers and shakers of contemporary music.
The Cdmc presents a season of encounters, seminars and day study sessions designed to counterpoint the views of specialists and professionals and to spotlight composers and performers. Focussing on topical aspects of the music scene, they are organised in collaboration with the main players of musical creation: ensembles, centres for creation, festivals, etc., as well as with those involved in research, the universities and conservatories. Dédicaces (Dedications): these are encounters featuring newly released books, discs or DVDs.
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Bridges to America III - 1st day
9h30 Welcome for participants
10h Opening of the seminar
Laure Marcel Berlioz, director of the Cdmc and Max Noubel, University of Bourgogne, CRAL (Music team)
Jazz I
Moderator: Grégoire Tosser, University of Évry Val d’Essonne
10h15 America and jazz in the 1920s: Art or entertainment?
Philippe Gumplowicz, University of Évry-Val d’Essonne, RASM
11h Revisionist Challenges in Writing the Biography of Ella Fitzgerald
Judith Tick, Northeastern University, USA
11h45 “They took jazz seriously”: Paul Whiteman and symphonic jazz at the Aeolian Hall (12 February 1924)
Martin Guerpin, University Paris-Sorbonne / Montreal University
Jazz II, the musical
Moderator: Philippe Gumplowicz
14h A Reconsideration of André Hodeir's Essay on Ellington's Concerto for Cootie
David Schiff, Reed College, Portland, USA
14h45 ‘Popular’ and ‘cultivated’ at the crossroads: ‘committed’ musicals and ‘Broadway Opera’
Gianfranco Vinay, University of Paris VIII
15h45 A Tale of Two Concerti : Stravinsky’s Ebony Concerto (1948) and Copland’s Concerto for Clarinet, Harp, and Strings (1948) and the Politics of Jazz Before the Cold War
Gayle Murchison, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
16h30 Some thoughts on art music and popular music
Esteban Buch, EHESS, CRAL, Paris
17h15 Discussion among participants