An international conference to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War

www.themusicofwar.org

PROGRAMME




THE MUSIC OF WAR: 19141918

2931 AUGUST 2014
BRITISH LIBRARY, LONDON


Music & Letters Trust









Conference Organisers Jane Angell (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Rachel Moore (University of Oxford)
Rupert Ridgewell (British Library)

Programme Committee Jane Angell (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Daniel Grimley (University of Oxford)
Barbara Kelly (Keele University)
Stefan Manz (Aston University)
Rachel Moore (University of Oxford)
Rupert Ridgewell (British Library)

Media technicians Savan Modha
Gary Burden
+ ???

Sponsored by The British Library
The Royal Musical Association
The Music & Letters Trust
The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities


CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

FRIDAY 29

AUGUST 2014

9.00 REGISTRATION Conference Centre Foyer
9.30 INTRODUCTORY SESSION Auditorium
Richard Chesser (British Library)
Rachel Moore (University of Oxford) and Jane Angell (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Alison Bailey (British Library)

10.15 KEYNOTE PAPER 1 Auditorium
Chair: Richard Chesser (British Library)

Professor Rachel Cowgill (Cardiff University): 'Doing the Right Thing for Fighting Men': Music, Morale and the Military Body in
Londons West End Nightclubs, 1915-19
11.00 BREAK
11.30 BRITISH COMPOSERS (1) Bront Room

Chair: Leanne Langley (Institute of Musical Research, University of
London)

Fabian Huss (University of Bristol): Frank Bridge, Impressionism and
the Failure of Pastoral

Philip Lancaster: Establishing the War Composer in a World of War
Poets

Eric Saylor (Drake University): A Martyr to the Cause: George
Butterworth, the Great War, and the Construction of Reception

THE BODY Eliot Room

Chair: Laura Hamer (Liverpool Hope University)

Jillian Rogers (University of California): La Plus Grande
Consolatrice: Music as Therapeutic Corporeal Practice in
World War I-era France

Michelle Meinhart (Martin Methodist College): Singing
Tommies and Their Stourhead Mother: Forging Familial
Bonds Through Music in the English Country House During
the First World War

Erin Brooks (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Sarah
Bernhardt, Les Cathdrales, and Performing the Wounded
Nation

13.00 LUNCH BREAK


13.30 Tour of the British Librarys WWI exhibition, Enduring the War: Grief, Grit and Humour, led by the exhibition curators Alison Bailey
(British Library) and Matthew Shaw (British Library)

14.00 WAR AS CATALYST Bront Room
Chair: Patricia Hall (University of Michigan)

Marianne Betz (Hochschule fr Musik und Theater Felix Mendelssohn
Bartholdy): How World War I Changed Perspectives: American
Composer G.W. Chadwicks Reaction to the War

Geoffrey Chew (Royal Holloway, London): Putting an End to
Violence: The Codas to Janeks Wartime Symphonic Poems

Erik Christian Peterson: War as a Catalyst for Creativity: Hindemiths
Assimilation of Wartime Experiences
MUSIC, LANGUAGE, AND REPRESENTATION Eliot Room
Chair: Beverly J. Evans (State University of New York at
Geneseo)

Andrew Frayn (De Montfort University): Music horrible and
unreal: Music, its Language, and First World War Fiction

Rebekah Lockyer (University of Birmingham): A Haunted
Composition: Examining the connection between music and
prose in Ford Madox Fords Great War tetralogy, Parades
End

Nathan Waddell (University of Nottingham): All the great
artists have been immoral: Beethoven, J. W. N. Sullivan, and
H. G. Wells

15.30 BREAK
16.00 JAZZ AND VAUDEVILLE Bront Room
Chair: Jane Angell (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Laurent Cugny (Universit Paris-Sorbonne): Elsie Janis, James Reese
Europe and the Harlem Hellfighters: American Entertainers in France,
1918

David Monod (Wilfrid Laurier University): Mark Time: The American
March to European War
WOMEN IN FRANCE Eliot Room
Chair: Caroline Potter (Kingston University)

David Mastin (Universit Paris Ouest Nanterre la Dfense:
Un talent mle? Genders and Music during World War I.
The Case of French coles Nationales et Conservatoires de
Musique

Laura Hamer (Liverpool Hope University): Directing the
Home-Front Spirit: Marguerite Canal and the Orchestra of the
Union des Femmes Professeurs et Compositeurs de Musique



17.00 PARISIAN MUSICAL LIFE Bront Room
Chair: Rachel Moore (University of Oxford)

Claire Paolacci (Univerist Paris I-Panthon-Sorbonne): Paris Opra
during the First World War

Barbara Kelly (Keele University): World War I and the Parisian avant-
garde: Musical Taste, Patriotism and Narratives of Rupture

FRENCH MUSICAL WORKS IN THE GREAT WAR Eliot Room
Chair: Jane Angell (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Esteban Buch (cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales):
Listening to the Ruins and the Dead

Ccile Quesney (Universit Paris-Sorbonne/Universit de
Montral): Alfred Bruneaus Les Quatre journes: The
Battlefield at the Opra-Comique (1916)

18.00 BREAK
18.30 Auditorium

Screening of Holger-Madsens silent film, Pax Aeterna.

With an introductory talk, Scoring the Eternal Peace in 1918. Viennese Music for the Danish Silent Film Pax terna, by Anna
Katharina Windisch (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

John Sweeney, piano

20.30 CLOSE





SATURDAY 30 AUGUST 2014

9.00 REGISTRATION Conference Centre Foyer
9.30 BRITISH COMPOSERS (2) Bront Room
Chair: Rachel Cowgill (Cardiff University)

Toby Thacker (Cardiff University): Between Conscience, Family, and
Nation: Hubert Parry and the First World War

Adle Commins (Dundalk Institute of Technology): 'Per astra ad aspera':
Stanford and the First World War
Christopher Scheer (Utah State University): Dancing at the Rebirth of the
World: Holsts Hymn of Jesus and the First World War
FOLK MUSIC Eliot Room
Chair: Georgina Binns (University of Melbourne)

Robert Burns (University of Otago): When This Bloody
War Is Over: New Perspectives on the World War One
Folk Music Canon

Frank Gunderson (Florida State University): Boulders,
Fighting on the Plain: Reflections on a World War One
Era Song Repatriated and Re-membered in Western
Tanzania

11.00 BREAK
11.30 SHEET MUSIC Auditorium
Chair: Richard Chesser (British Library)

Lewis Foreman (University of Birmingham): Your King and Country Want You: From Recruiting Songs to The Better Ole The
Changing British Response to the First World War as Reflected in Pictorial Sheet Music Covers and Popular Recordings of the Day

Paul Fraunfelter (Library of Congress): World War I Sheet Music at the Library of Congress: Americas War, as Viewed by Publishers
and the Public

12.30 KEYNOTE PAPER 2 Auditorium
Chair: Rachel Moore (University of Oxford)

Dr Kate McLoughlin (Birkbeck, University of London): The Rest is Silence: Literary Veterans, The First World War and the
Inception of Modernity

13.15 LUNCH BREAK





14.15 OPERA Bront Room
Chair: Paul Banks

Mark Fitzgerald (DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama): Arlecchino
the philosophic mocker and raisonneur of the World War: Busonis
Wartime Opera

Amanda Hsieh (University of Toronto): Between Opera and
Psychoanalysis: Zemlinsky, Berg, Schreker, and the First World War

Patricia Hall (University of Michigan): Wozzeck and World War I
PROPAGANDA Eliot Room
Chair: Eric Saylor (Drake University)

Christine Mercer (Adjunct Scholar, University of
Melbourne): Anti-War Music and the Home-Front (1914-
1918)

Georgina Binns (University of Melbourne): For Auld Lang
Syne! Australia Will Be There: Australian Popular Sheet
Music as Propaganda and Motivator during WW1

Marie Sophie Hingst (Trinity College Dublin): Rosa, wir
fahren nach Lodz: Fritz Lhner-Beda and his Music of
War

15.45 BREAK
16.15 ERIK SATIE AND WWI Bront Room
Chair: Barbara Kelly (Keele University)

Caroline Potter (Kingston University): Erik Satie and Performance Spaces
in Paris during World War I

Ann-Marie Hanlon: Erik Satie the Anti-Patriot: Issues of Wartime Concert
Programming
SOLDIER SONGS FROM THE CENTRAL POWERS
Eliot Room
Chair: Paul Fraunfelter (Library of Congress)

Reinhard Johler (Eberhard Karls Universitt Tbingen):
Westlich Langemarck: The Significance and Collection
of Battle Songs in the German Empire during the First
World War

Christian Liebl & Gerda Lechleitner (Austrian Academy of
Sciences): Soldier Songs of the Austro-Hungarian Army
A Collection of the Vienna Phonogrammarchiv

17.15 WINE RECEPTION Conference Centre Foyer
18.30 Auditorium

War, Women and Song: A premire production by Anna Farthing and Bea Roberts, as actors bring to life a Lena Ashwell wartime
concert party.

20.00 CLOSE




SUNDAY 31 AUGUST 2014

10.00 REGISTRATION Conference Centre Foyer
10.30 PRISONERS OF WAR Bront Room
Chair: Rupert Ridgewell (British Library)

Rainer Pppinghege (Paderborn University): Chants in Camps
Prisoners of War and their Music

Jutta Raab Hansen: Music in Internment Camps for Germans on the Isle
of Man during WWI

Carlo Perucchetti (read by Giovanni Varelli): Musicians and Music
Practice in Concentration Camps during the First World War: The case of
Cellelager.

AT THE FRONT Eliot Room
Chair: Adle Commins (Dundalk Institute of Technology)

Johanna de Schmidt (University of Heidelberg) : La seule
chose qui me manque est un bon piano: The Creation of
Musical Instruments on the Western Front

Thomas Greenshields: The Pipes at War 1914-1918

Rupert Marshall-Luck: It seemed that out of battle I
escaped: Frederick Kellys Gallipoli Sonata

12.00 BREAK
12.15 FRENCH PUBLICATIONS Bront Room
Chair: Rachel Moore (University of Oxford)

Anya Holland-Barry : La Gazette des Classes du Conservatoire National:
Lili Boulanger and French Musical Identities during World War I

Stphan Etcharry (Universit de Reims): Preparing a New Artistic World
during the Great War: Music in the French Avant-Garde Art Magazine
SIC (1916-1919)
CABARET Eliot Room
Chair: Emma Hanna (University of Greenwich)

Vanessa Williams (University of Pennsylvania): 'There'll be
trouble if you dare send me more patriotic songs': the First
World War in London's music halls
Daniel Morat (Free University Berlin): Home-Front
Entertainment: Popular Music and Patriotism in Berlin
1914-1918

13.15 LUNCH BREAK
13.30 British Library Main Building Entrance Hall

Concert of WWI-themed music, performed by the New London Chamber Choir, dir. Steven Grahl; includes the premire of a new work
by British composer Deborah Pritchard.




14.15 ORGANISATIONS Bront Room
Chair: Jane Angell (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Katheryn Lawson (McGill University): Why Dont You Raise Your Girl
to be a Girl Scout?: World War I Contrafacta in The Rally

Emma Hanna (University of Greenwich): Whatever cheers the warrior
helps to win the war: Music, Morale and the YMCA Music Department,
1914-18

John Williamson & Martin Cloonan (University of Glasgow): All
Together Now? Organising Musicians during the First World War

COMMEMORATION AND AFTERLIVES Eliot Room
Chair: Kate Kennedy (University of Cambridge)

Beverly J. Evans (State University of New York at
Geneseo): Ah! Cest la guerre: Life and Afterlife of
French WW I Music

John Francis Moss (Bangor University): Music within
Wartime Anglican Liturgies: Identity Beyond
Remembrance

Alwyn W Turner (University of Chichester): The Last Post:
Britains Secular Anthem

15.45 BREAK
16.15 ROUNDTABLE Auditorium

Topic: How will the war centenary affect the study and knowledge of music during the war?

Participants: Professor Rachel Cowgill (Cardiff University); Professor Barbara Kelly (Keele University); Dr Kate Kennedy (University
of Cambridge); Lewis Foreman (University of Birmingham)

Chair: Dr Toby Thacker (Cardiff University)

17.00 CLOSING ADDRESS Auditorium
17.10 CLOSE