Symposium: Beyond the Valley of the Ninth—The Afterlives of Beethoven's 'Choral' Symphony (FREE)

Organized by Nicholas Mathew, UC BERKELEY Associate Professor of Music with Andrea Bohlman (UNC Chapel Hill), Stephen Hinton (Stanford University), Alexander Rehding (Harvard University), Christopher Reynolds (UC Davis), Anicia Timberlake (Williams College), and Mina Yang. Free and open to the public; advanced registration highly encouraged. RSVP list opens September 8, 2015. Full schedule of events: 10:00 Introduction and Welcome SESSION 1: Nicholas Mathew (UC BERKELEY), moderator 10:30 Christopher Reynolds (UC Davis) “Counterpoint, Conflict, and Other Lessons of BEETHOVEN’s NINTH SYMPHONY” 11:15 Andrea Bohlman (UNC Chapel Hill) “Building the NINTH’s Bridges” 12:00 LUNCH BREAK SESSION 2: Mary Ann Smart (UC BERKELEY), moderator 1:30 Stephen Hinton (Stanford University) “In the VALLEY OF THE BERLINER Philharmonie: The Consecration Concert (1963)” 2:15 Anicia Timberlake (Williams College) “Claiming the NINTH IN POSTWAR SESSION 3: James Davies (UC BERKELEY), moderator 3:30 Mina Yang (Mount Saint Mary’s University) “Daiku: Reinventing the NINTH IN 4:15 Alexander Rehding (Harvard University) “BEETHOVEN’s NINTH FOR A NEW Millennium: Marking Time in 9 Beet Stretch” 5:00–5:15 Closing Remarks 7:30 Performance of the NINTH, Hearst Greek Theater http://calperformances.org/learn/berkeley-radical/ [http://calperformances.org/learn/berkeley-radical/]