Conference Programme

Registration is required for the conference, the performance of Signoôr in China and the tour on Sunday. The performance of Signoôr in China, the opening of the exhibition in the Museum Vleeshuis and the tour on Sunday are only open to conference participants. All other activities can be attended without registration.

Thursday 11 March

20:00

Formal opening of the conference & concert: opera 

Kasteel d'Ursel, Hingene

  • J.T.Baustetter (music; c.1713-1789) & J.J. Emmerechts (libretto; 1719-1765): Signoôr in China ofte De Chinêsche Pomona (1761)

    Performers: instrumental & vocal ensemble (students Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp); conductor: Ewald Demeyere; stage director: Sigrid T'Hooft

 

Friday 12 March

9:30 - 10:00

Registration & coffee

Conference   Centre Elzenveld

10:00 - 12:30


 

Conference session 1: Music & spectacle 
Chair: Hubert Meeus (University of Antwerp)

Conference Centre Elzenveld

  • Introduction by Bruno Blondé (University of Antwerp & AUHA)

  • Bruno Forment (University of Ghent), Music-making ghosts: 18th-century Rome as operatic memory machine

  • Timothy De Paepe (University of Antwerp), “Les operas etaient en vogue”: opera in Antwerp between 1711 and 1762

  • Rudolf Rasch (University of Utrecht), Opera in a different language

12:30 - 13:45

Lunch

    Conference  Centre Elzenveld

13:45 - 15:45

Conference session 2: Private music 
 Chair: Frank Willaert (University of Antwerp)

    Conference  Centre Elzenveld

  • Anne-Madeleine Goulet (Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles/CNRS), Airs sérieux, pratiques musicales et sociabilité en France à la fin du XVIIe siècle

  • Maartje De Wilde (University of Antwerp), Merriness and misfortune in songbooks from the Southern Netherlands

  • Louis Peter Grijp (Meertens Instituut & University of Utrecht), Dutch songbooks from the 18th century

16:30

Opening of the exhibition & mini-concerts

Museum Vleeshuis|Sound of the city

Mini-concert: Chamber music 

  • W.G. Kennis (1717-1789): Sonata VI in D from "VI Sonate a Violino en Violoncello o Cimbalo" Op.1

    Performer: Guido De Neve, violin & Frank Agsteribbe, harpsichord

Mini-concert: Songs: "A shiny leather jacket for secondhand songs"

  • Program t.b.a.

    Performers: Joep Conjaerts

18:00 - 20:30

Free time

(a list with restaurant suggestions can be found here)


20:30

Concert: Religious music

Conference Centre Elzenveld

  • J.A.J. Faber (c.1692-1759): Missa Maria assumpta

  • P. H. Brehy (1673-1737): Motet de profundis 

  • A.-J. Blavier (1713-1782): Missa  in honorem deiparae

    Performers : instrumental  & vocal ensemble (students Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp); conductor: Frank Agsteribbe

 


Saturday 13 March

9:30 - 10:00

Registration & coffee

    Conference   Centre Elzenveld

10:00 - 12:00

Conference session 3: Music & religion 
 Chair: Pieter Mannaerts (K.U.Leuven)

      Conference Centre Elzenveld

  • Sylvie Granger (Université du Maine), Musiciens et musiciennes d'église en France à la fin du XVIIIe siècle: une enquête prosopographique ambitieuse

  • Stefanie Beghein (University of Antwerp),  Church music and funeral practices in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Antwerp

  • Tanya Kevorkian (Millersville University), The church, the street, the tower, and the home as sites of religious music-making in urban Baroque Germany

12:00 - 13:00

Concert: Organ & chamber music

Conference  Centre Elzenveld

Organ music from the anonymous manuscript "1764" (Library Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp)

  • Sonata - Tempo di minuetto - Pastorale
  • Salve Regina
  • Giga Rondo - Menuet 
  • Magnificat VIII toni
  • Le [sic] Bataille

  • Performers   : student    ensemble (students Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp)

Chamber music

  • P. van Maldere (1729-1768): Sonata V for 2 violins and basso continuo (from  VI Sonatas for two violins with a bass for the harpsichord, or violoncello  )

  • W.G. Kennis (1717-1789): Duo II for 2 violins (from Six Duo’s Pour Deux Violons – Oeuvre XII)

  • P. van Maldere (1729-1768): Sonata VI for 2 violins and basso continuo (from: VI Sonatas for two violins with a bass for the harpsichord, or violoncello)

    Performers : instrumental  ensemble (students Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp)

13:00 - 14:00

Lunch

Conference   Centre Elzenveld

14:00 - 16:00

Conference session 4: Performance practice
Moderator: Herman Baeten (Musica: Impulse Centre for Music)

Conference  Centre Elzenveld

  • Keynote: Joshua Rifkin (The Bach Ensemble & Boston University), Time travel and its discontents: historical performance, historical reconstruction, and culture tourism

  • Panel discussion with Joshua Rifkin (The Bach Ensemble & Boston University ) , Bert De Munck (University of Antwerp), Xavier Vandamme (Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht),  Eugeen Schreurs (Resonant &  Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp ),  Karel Moens  (Museum Vleeshuis|Sound of the city) and Frank Agsteribbe  ( Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp & ensemble B'Rock)

16:00 - 20:00

Free time

(a list with restaurant suggestions can be found here)


 

20:00

Dance music & ball

Conference  Centre Elzenveld

  • Performance of dance music and historical dances, followed by a ball

    Performe rs:  instrumental & dance ensemble (students Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp) conducted by Jonathan Talbot; with the participation of dance instructor Lieven Baert


 

Sunday 14 March

11:30 - 13:00

Guided tour of historical Antwerp, with eighteenth-century carillon music

Hendrik Conscienceplein


15:00

Optional concert (not included in registration fee): "The cradle of music for wind ensemble"

AMUZ (Augustinus Muziekcentrum)

  • Music for wind ensemble by Fr.-J. Gossec, I. Vitzthumb and others

    Performers: ensemble Octophoros

    More information and registration here.

 

 


 
Inhoudsverantwoordelijke: Timothy De Paepe (timothy.depaepe@ua.ac.be)