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Schedule
Updated on November 20, 2015
Friday, Dec. 4
15:00
18:00
Walking tour in the Hämeenlinna centre (Sibelius’s birth home, school, Hämeenlinna church)
Starting point: Sokos Hotel Vaakuna
Concert (Vanaja Hall, Verkatehdas)
Saturday, Dec. 5
10:00
Registration (Verkatehdas)
11:00
Opening of the conference (Vanaja Hall, Verkatehdas)
Speeches:
Erkki Korhonen (Sibelius Birth Town Foundation)
Timo Kenakkala (City of Hämeenlinna)
Eero Tarasti (University of Helsinki)
Musical performance:
Madoka Sato, violin
Folke Gräsbeck, piano
12:00­13:00 Keynote presentation I (Vanaja Hall, Verkatehdas)
James Hepokoski (Yale University):
Early Sibelius, Primitivist­Modernism, 'News of War'
13:00­14:30 Lunch
14:30­16:30 Sessions IA and I B Session IA (Kokoushuone 1/Meeting room 1, Verkatehdas)
Chair: Veijo Murtomäki
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Les Black (Ithaca College):
Dorian Departure
Aare Tool (Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre):
Jean Sibelius and the Modes of Limited Transposition
Benedict Taylor (University of Edinburgh):
Monotonality and Scalar Modulation in Sibelius’s Tapiola
Session IB (Studio, Verkatehdas)
Chair: Daniel Grimley
Philip Ross Bullock (University of Oxford):
Sibelius Reception in Britain, 1901–1939: Centre Periphery in the Musical Construction of the North
Laura Gray (University of Waterloo):
The Tipping Point and the Rise of the Sibelius Cult in England
Helena Tyrväinen (University of Helsinki):
Institutional Regulation and Parisian Perceptions of Sibelius, 1924–1929: the Schnéevoigts and the Association Française d’Expansion et d’Échanges Artistiques
Edward Clark (Sibelius Society of the United Kingdom):
Sibelius and contemporary composers
16:30­18:00 Break
18:00
Reception hosted by the city of Hämeenlinna (Town Hall)
19:30
Concert by the Sibelius Academy students (Town Hall)
Sunday, Dec. 6
10:00­12:00 Sessions IIA and IIB Session IIA (Kokoushuone 1/Meeting room 1, Verkatehdas)
Chair: Timo Virtanen
Martti Laitinen (Sibelius Academy):
Why Kajanus went to St. Petersburg Vesa Kurkela (Sibelius Academy) and Olli Heikkinen (Sibelius Academy):
Sibelius as popular composer: Music by Sibelius in Kajanus’s popular concerts 2
Vesa Sirén (The Helsingin Sanomat):
Ever­changing Sibelius: the mosaic has new pieces
Kaarina Kilpiö (Sibelius Academy):
Soundtrack for “The New Military Branch”. Jean Sibelius’s music in Finnish propaganda films during WWII
Session IIB (Studio, Verkatehdas)
Chair: Tuija Wicklund
Charris Efthimiou (University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz):
On the instrumentation of bass and melody line in Jean Sibelius’s early symphonic poems (1892–1894)
Pekka Helasvuo:
The formation of the mode of expression of dynamic and articulation markings in the notation of Jean Sibelius
Juhani Alesaro (Sibelius Academy):
Analyzing Sibelius's Satz
Barry Wiener:
Dahlhaus’s Paradigm and Sibelius Reception
12:00­13:30 Lunch
13:30
Transportation by bus to the Ice Hall in Hämeenlinna
14:00
Independence Fantasy (Ice Hall in Hämeenlinna)
15:00
Transportation by bus back to Verkatehdas
16:00­17:00 Keynote presentation II (Kokoushuone 1, Verkatehdas) Ferruccio Tammaro (University of Turin): War­Symphonies and Peace­Symphonies: the Sibelius “Fifth”
17:00­17:30 Session IIC (Kokoushuone 1, Verkatehdas)
Chair: Eero Tarasti
Antonin Servière:
Reflecting Sibelius’s Legacy in Today’s Composer’s Mind
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Monday, Dec. 7
10:00­12:00 Sessions IIIA and IIIB Session IIIA (Kokoushuone 1/Meeting room 1, Verkatehdas)
Chair: Anna Pulkkis
Nors S. Josephson:
Sibelius at the Crossroads: Old Paths Leading To New Creative Departures in His Second Symphony (1901–1902) Sakari Ylivuori (Jean Sibelius Works):
From a Bon vivant to a War Hero – The Narrative Structure of Sandels'
(Op. 28)
Lauri Suurpää (Sibelius Academy):
Unconfirmed Pastoral and Denial of Threat in the Slow Movement of Sibelius’s First Symphony
Olli Väisälä (Sibelius Academy):
Sibelius’s Revision of the First Movement of the Violin Concerto: Strengthening Tonal Structure while Removing Tonal Clichés
Session IIIB (Studio, Verkatehdas)
Chair: James Hepokoski
Kimmo Sarje (University of Helsinki):
Sibelius and the Modern
Ron Weidberg (Open University of Israel):
Sibelius and Schönberg
Daniel Grimley (University of Oxford):
'I sing another song': Sibelius, Hofmannsthal and the Subjectivities of Jedermann Ilkka Oramo (Sibelius Academy):
Sibelius's Eighth Symphony – fact and fiction
12:00­13:30 Lunch
13:30­14:30 Keynote presentation III (Kokoushuone 1, Verkatehdas)
Marc Vignal: Sibelius and Mahler
14:30­15:00 Break
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15:00­17:00 Sessions IVA and IVB Session IVA (Kokoushuone 1/Meeting room 1, Verkatehdas)
Chair: Lauri Suurpää
Jorma Daniel Lünenbürger:
Jean Sibelius and the Cello
Tuija Wicklund (Jean Sibelius Works):
Sibelius and Böcklin
Anna Pulkkis (Jean Sibelius Works):
Sibelius’s Loulou Andantino – a Souvenir Composition with a Mystery
Timo Virtanen (Jean Sibelius Works):
Sibelius's Sketches for the Violin Concerto
Session IVB (Studio, Verkatehdas)
Chair: Ron Weidberg
Gustav Djupsjöbacka (Sibelius Academy):
There are several ways of putting it
Carola Finkel (Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt am Main):
The metamorphoses of Svartsjukans nätter
Sanna Iitti:
The Representation of Emotions in the songs Våren flyktar hastigt and Svarta rosor
Leah Broad (University of Oxford):
Scaramouche, Scaramouche
17:00­19:00 Walking tour in the Hämeenlinna centre (Sibelius’s birth home, school, Hämeenlinna Church)
Starting point: Verkatehdas
19:00 Concert in the Hämeenlinna Church
The Sibelius Academy Kapubändi Wind Ensemble
conducted by students of orchestral conducting at the Sibelius Academy
Tuesday, Dec. 8
5
10:00­11:00 Keynote presentation IV (Kokoushuone 1, Verkatehdas)
Eero Tarasti (University of Helsinki):
How Sibelius Became Sibelius – Observations and Notes on the Emergence of His Style
11:00­11:30 Sessions VA and VB Session VA (Kokoushuone 1/Meeting room 1, Verkatehdas)
Chair: Olli Väisälä
Tim Howell (University of York):
Jean Sibelius: Progressive or Modernist?
Session VB (Studio, Verkatehdas)
Chair: Ilkka Oramo
Timothy L. Jackson (University of North Texas): “The Company You Keep:” Recipients of the Honorary Doctorates from the 1936 Heidelberg Celebration – Sibelius and Those Honored Alongside Him
12:00
Ceremony in the Sibelius Park
12:00­14:00 Lunch
14:00­15:00 Sessions VIA and VIB Session VIA (Kokoushuone 1/Meeting room 1, Verkatehdas)
Chair: Sakari Ylivuori
Mart Humal (Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre):
Sibelius’s Incidental Music for The Tempest: Ariel’s Five Songs as a Cycle
Veijo Murtomäki (Sibelius Academy):
Either Or? – No: Both And! The current challenges of the Sibelius image
Session VIB (Performance tradition) (Studio, Verkatehdas)
Chair: Pekka Helasvuo Andrew Barnett (Sibelius One, UK):
BIS Complete Edition
Benjamin T. Hilger (Phillips­Universität Marburg):
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Sibelius’s Second Symphony Recordings – Tendencies of conducting within the history
15:00
Closing of the conference (Kokoushuone 1, Verkatehdas)
19:00
Concert (Vanaja Hall, Verkatehdas)
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Hannu Lintu, conductor 1st prize winner of the 11th International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition Adresses
Hämeenlinna Town Hall
Sibelius Birth Home
Sokos Hotel Vaakuna
Verkatehdas
Raatihuoneenkatu 15
Hallituskatu 11
Possentie 7
Paasikiventie 2
Telephone numbers
Erkki Korhonen, director of the Sibelius Birth Town Foundation +358 50 599 3342
Anna Krohn, general secretary of the 150th anniversary of Jean Sibelius +358 50 381 6145
Anja Kuoppa, conference secretary
+358 44 2844 330
Emilia Savola, conference secretary
+358 44 5045 050 7