Newsgroups: rec.music.classical,soc.culture.french,soc.culture.europe
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 11:47:36 -0400 
From: "Walter Allen Young, III" <wy09+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: GOUNOD CELEBRATION

 *******GOUNOD CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION******
      March 8-14, 1993
   FEATURING: Cuarteto Latinoamericano, Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic and
                                               Carnegie Mellon
University Choir
******CALL FOR PAPERS AND PERFORMANCES******

The Institute for Gounod Studies at Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will hold a week-long commemoration of the
centennial of the death of Charles-Francois Gounod (1818-1893).  The
focal point will be the Third Annual Meeting and Symposium of the Gounod
Institute, Wednesday, March 10 through Friday, March 12.  A Belle Epoque
banquet will be held Friday evening in the Gold Room of the prestigious
University Club.
	
The open forum of this symposium offers the opportunity to present
research and ideas in a variety of ways, not excluding the traditional
conference paper.  The Institute for Gounod Studies encourages a
stimulating exchange of viewpoints on the conception, performance and
contexts of 19th-century music, particularly, but not necessarily,
within the French cultural sphere.
	
Note: You need not be a musicologist to attend or contribute to this
symposium!  Musicologists often tend to forget that there is a wealth of
information and knowledge available from people outside their
occupational circles, and that musical research is not their sacrosanct
intellectual property.  One of the aims of the Institute is to build
ties to the music-loving public and to encourage ideas and viewpoints
regardless of occupation or institutional affiliation.  The presence of
the general public also helps to disperse some of the stuffiness which
unfortunately befalls many musicological gatherings, and creates a
relaxed atmosphere which we believe is much more suitable for
intellectual discourse.

The registration fee for the Symposium is $45 U.S.;  the Banquet is
extra.  Proposals for papers/presentations must be received by Decmeber
15, 1992.  Time limit for presentations is 30 minutes.  Please send
proposals/abstracts in one-page typewritten form to:
	   Institute for Gounod Studies
	   Department of Music
	   Carnegie Mellon University
	   Pittsburgh, PA 15213  USA
and we will get back to you promptly.  For more information, please
contact Prof. Kenneth Langevin (412) 422-3360, the Department of Music
[(412) 268-2372 (phone), (412) 268-1431 (fax)], or reply to this account.
 
ABOUT THE INSTITUTE
Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Music established this new
international center in February of 1989 to foster an exchange of
information and ideas regarding Gounod and aesthetic tastes of the 19th
century.  The Institute, founded in cooperation with the Universite de
Paris, is concerned with three areas of investigation:
	-- The creative influence of Charles-Francois Gounod.
	-- Performance of the music, not only of Gounod, but of personalities
not 	  	  	    ordinarily included in the concert stage repertoire.
	-- The social, political, psychological and linguistic contexts of
19th-century 	 	  French musical activity.