Paris and Its Influence on the Musical Culture of the Twentieth-Century Central and Eastern Europe
6th International Conference from the 'Polish Music Abroad' series

/ 10:00
Jeanice Brooks (University of Southampton) Listening to Eastern Europe in Nadia Boulanger’s Paris
Chair: Beata Bolesławska-Lewandowska

/ 11:00
Iwona Lindstedt Mirages of Paris: Karol Rathaus and Fedor Ozep’s Parisian Collaborations (1932–1934)
Rūta Stanevičiūtė Between the Imaginary and the Real: Parisian Influences and Impressions in Vytautas Bacevičius’ Music and Literary Legacy
Valentina Sandu-Dediu French Musical Ideologies Reflected in Romanian Musicology of the Interwar Period
Chair: Beata Bolesławska-Lewandowska

/ 13:30
J. Mackenzie Pierce Whose Chopin? Franco-Polish Music Diplomacy against the Backdrop of the Cold War
James William Sobaskie From Chopin to Fauré to Modernism
Joerg Holzmann Louta Nouneberg and the Reinvention of Piano Pedagogy between Poland and Interwar Paris
Ricardo Reyes Paz Orientalism, Exoticism, Cosmopolitanism, and Musical Transculturation in Manuel M. Ponce’s Eight Cycles for Voice and Piano
Chair: Rūta Stanevičiūtė

/ 16:00
Łukasz Kaczmarowski Old and New Identity: Issues of Nationality, Emigration, and Cultural Transfer as Exemplified by Alexandre Tansman and Other Composers of the École de Paris Group
Anna Rusin Opéra-Bouffe in the Interpretations by Aleksander Tansman and Szymon Laks
Nicolette van den Bogerd Negotiating Poland’s Holocaust Memory Politics from Paris: Szymon Laks’s “Imaginary Conversations” in “Elegia miasteczek żydowskich”
Chair: Katarzyna Naliwajek

The papers and the panel discussion will be held in English.

The conference is organised as part of the DAINA 3 research project Polish and Lithuanian Music in Global Perspective: Migration, Diasporic Identities and Homeland, funded by the National Science Centre.
Organiser: Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences
Co-organiser: Polish Composers’ Union
Media patron: POLMIC.PL