37A St Giles
Oxford OX1 3LD
UK
A one-day, multi-disciplinary event exploring the lyric form and its interactions across music and poetry. Hosted by the Ertegun Scholarship Programme and the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD), with the kind support of the Oxford Song Network, the day brings together academics and performers from different disciplines (including Classicists, English and German literary specialists, musicologists, musicians and poets) and centres around a lecture-recital given by renowned musicians Stephan Loges (bass-baritone) and Natasha Loges (piano).
Tickets are £15 (or £10 for students/concessions) – this price includes a sandwich lunch, coffee and biscuits throughout the day, and a drinks reception.
A limited number of places are available for dinner, at an additional cost of £35; for further details please contact: [email protected]
Contributors:
Michael Silk (KCL): Aristocratic Humanities: Pindar, Castiglione, and Yeats
Pauline Le Ven (Yale): Hearing Greek Lyric as Music Again
Stephan Loges and Natasha Loges (Bass-baritone and piano): 18th-century lyrics in 19th-century dress: Brahms’s and Schubert’s settings of Ludwig Hölty’s poetry
Georgina Paul (Oxford): Pacing the emotion: lyric’s time-space
Karen Leeder (Oxford): ‘Subsongs’: The contemporary lyric and a listening poetics
William Fitzgerald (KCL): Lyric, Song and Stanza: a Horatian perspective
Dat Griffiths (Oxford Brookes): The lyrics, lyrical and not so lyrical, of selected popular songs
Stephanie Oade (Oxford): Dramatic lyric: when Catullus meets music
Josephine Balmer (Poet): Making it Personal: Lyric Transformations through Translation and Poetry