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Horizons of music in France 1944-1954 - 1st session
At the Cdmc
9h30: Welcome and general introduction
Laure Marcel-Berlioz, director of the Cdmc
Teaching composition: preserving and renewing
The panorama of music teaching at the Liberation was shared between the official structures and private tuition. The latter, on the sidelines yet assiduously cultivated, completed the teaching received at the Paris Conservatory, calls it into question, and reveals, at times, its incompleteness. Messiaen himself is a case in point, with his harmony class at the Conservatory and those, less official, for composition and analysis.
9h45: Introduction
Laurent Feneyrou
10h: Composition teaching at the Paris Conservatory (1944-1954)
Rémy Campos
10h45: Method and support in Olivier Messiaen’s teaching of harmony
Yves Balmer and Christopher Brent Murray
11h15: A lethal triangle? The Conjunction of Leibowitz – Boulez – Schaeffer
Esteban Buch
11h45: Round table directed by Laurent Feneyrou
The diffusion and performance of new music in 1945
Some media for diffusing music, like the radio, were encouraged though at the same time censored by the Collaboration; others were completely shut down. The Liberation led to much discussion of music and particularly the new works that were then being revealed. The emergence of these mostly unknown scores also demanded a reconsideration of current performance techniques.
14h30: Introduction
Myriam Chimènes
14h45: Radio, music and modernity in the wake of World War II
Karine The Bail
15h15: Music periodicals in post-war France
Cécile Quesney
16h: Performance conditions for contemporary music in Paris between 1945 and the birth of the Domaine musical
Jésus Aguila
16h30: Roger Désormière at the Réunion des Théâtres Lyriques Nationaux (1944-1948)
Aurélien Poidevin
17h: Round table directed by Myriam Chimènes