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Study Day, Words into Music: Poets, Composers and Song, Oxford, 16 October 2015

Dates
Friday, October 16, 2015 - 01:00
Location
Okinaga Room, Wadham College, Oxford

In association with the Open University Literature and Music Research Group, the Faculties of Modern Languages and of Music at Oxford University, and Wadham College

Held at the Okinaga Room, Wadham College, Oxford, this study day was the first event of the Oxford Lieder Festival 2015: Singing Words: Poets and their Songs. It presented current academic research related to the Festival’s overall theme to an audience of fellow researchers, students, and festival goers. 

It explored large research questions relating to the Festival theme, such as, How does a composer approach the setting of verse by a poet whose reputation is already established? How does the reception of poetry become inflected for audiences who first encounter it via song setting? or How are the competing claims of poetic and musical sense negotiated by the performers of song?

Speakers included Lorraine Byrne Bodley (Dublin), Terence Cave (Oxford), Peter Dayan (Edinburgh), Amanda Glauert (Royal College of Music), Richard Langham Smith (Royal College of Music), Angela Leighton (Cambridge) and members of the organising committee.

A recital was be given by Benjamin Appl (baritone), Sholto Kynoch (piano), and Richard Wigmore (speaker). The study day programme is available online [PDF].

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