2010 - Soundscapes in Jefferson's America symposium

April 30, 2010 - 9:30am

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Soundscapes in Jefferson's America - symposium

Soundscapes in Jefferson’s America explores the musical world of Thomas Jefferson. Scholars, musicians, undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty will present a series of papers, lectures, and performances designed to make audible the variety of musical sounds from chamber music to folk ballades and patriotic sounds that echoed through Jefferson’s America.

Catalogue of Monticello Music CollectionBallad OperasPleasure Gardens frequented by TJInternational Center for Jefferson Studies

Registration is requested, but not required.

SOUNDSCAPES IN JEFFERSON’S AMERICA 2010
Program

FRIDAY 30 APRIL, 2010
Auditorium of the Mary and David Harrison Institute for American History, Literature, and Culture, and the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at The University of Virginia Friday, April 30, 2010 9:30am-6pm, Harrison Institute Auditorium [UVA] (free)

  • 9:30-10:00 Opening Remarks, Bonnie Gordon (University of Virginia)

10:00-12:00 Introducing Jefferson’s Soundscapes
Deborah McDowell (University of Virginia), Chair
Karen Ahlquist (George Washington University), “The Ear and the Eye in the Jeffersons' Musical Life”
Emily Gale (University of Virginia), “A Presidential Songcatcher: Thomas Jefferson’s Scrapbooks”

12:00-12:30 Rotunda and Garden Tour

12:30-1:30 LUNCH/View Exhibit Cases

1:30-3:00 Jefferson’s Women and Their Instruments
Fred Maus (University of Virginia), Chair
Jay Zolle (University of Virginia), “Teaching Little Fingers to Play”
Matt Jones (University of Virginia), “The Missing Martha and the Uncommon Commonplace Book ”

3:00-3:30 COFFEE BREAK

3:30-4:00 Lauren Hauser (University of Virginia), "Thomas and Sally"

4:00-5:00 Scenes from Thomas Arne’s Thomas and Sally
Presented by Opera Viva with Introduction by Cindy Wall (University of Virginia)

6:00 Reception Sponsored by College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Pavilion II, The Lawn, Home of Dean Meredith Woo Music by the Virginia Belles

Saturday, May 1, 2010, 9:30am-9pm
Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello 9:30-11:00 The European Connection
Lawrie Balfour (University of Virginia), Chair
Adrienne Ward (University of Virginia), “Thomas Jefferson's Theatrical Life: French and Italian Spectacle in Early American Consciousness”
James Johnson (Boston University), “Thomas Jefferson's Paris Years: Music, Race, and Revolution ”

11:00-11:15 COFFEE BREAK

11:15-12:30 Traveling
Anna Brickhouse (University of Virginia), Chair
Stephanie Doktor (University of Virginia), “Travellust: Jefferson, Charles Burney and Musical Travel”
Kirsten Paine (University of Virginia), “The Jacobite Connection: Jefferson, Scottish Folk Music and Transatlantic Highland Culture in Eighteenth-Century America”

12:30-1:30 LUNCH

1:30-3:00 Fiddles and Banjos (Lecture Demonstrations)
Richard Will (University of Virginia), Chair
Liza Sapir and Camilla Ammirati (University of Virginia)

3:00-3:15 COFFEE BREAK

3:15-4:30 Taverns and More
Andrew O’Shaughnessy (Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello), Chair
Kirsten Wood (Florida International University), “Lyrics and Libations: Tavern Music in Jefferson’s America”
Peter Onuf (University of Virginia), “Reflections on Jefferson and Music”

4:30-5:00 Light Reception

5:00-6:00 Closing Roundtable: Bonnie Gordon, Emily Gale, Richard Will, Eric Lott, Andrew O’Shaughnessy

6:00-6:30 BREAK

6:30 Concert featuring Kathleen Flynn, Brad Lehman, and David Sariti

8:00 Closing Reception

 

Address

UVA Department of Music
112 Old Cabell Hall
P.O. Box 400176 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4176

Email: music@virginia.edu