National Gallery of Art | Women in Art and Music: An Early Modern Global Conference Day 2
Free (registration required)
Women in Art and Music is a two-part conference hosted jointly by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art and The Juilliard School in New York. The conference is organized by Eve Straussman-Pflanzer (National Gallery) and Elizabeth Weinfield (Juilliard).
Presentations and performances will think more broadly about women as creators, as part of the cultural and global economy, and as experts in their chosen fields of art.
Join us for the second of two days at the National Gallery of Art.
Morning Presentations:
Unconventual Convents and Contexts
10:15am–12:30pm
Introductory Remarks
Steven Nelson, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, National Gallery of Art
Brett Umlauf, Los Angeles, CA
"(Re)formed Icon: 9th-century Hymnographer Kassia of Byzantium's Musical Legacy in her Hymn to Saint Pelagia"
Craig Monson, Washington University, St. Louis (emeritus)
"Performing Music, Performing Art: Convent Pathways to Social (and Geographic) Mobility in Early Modern Italy"
Carolina Sacristán, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
"Symbolism and Musical Performance: The Profession of a Nun in Colonial Guatemala"
Vanessa Tonelli, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
"The Performer's Voice: Musical Training and Solos of the Venetian Figlie di Coro"
Panelist Discussion
Moderated by Eve Straussman-Pflanzer, National Gallery of Art
Afternoon Presentations
Intermezzo
2pm–3pm
Yasemin Altun, Duke University
Meredith Graham, National Humanities Center
Dana Hogan, Project Vox, Duke University
"Project Vox and Early Modern Women’s Collaborations in the Arts"
Panelist Discussion
Moderated by Elizabeth Weinfield, The Juilliard School
Performance: Sonnambula
3:45pm–4:45pm
West Garden Court, West Building
About Sonnambula
Praised as "superb" by the The New Yorker, Sonnambula is a historically informed ensemble that brings to light unknown music for early instruments with the lush sound of the viol at the core. Sonnambula recently held the position of Ensemble in Residence at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where the group curated a site-specific series at The Cloisters. Sonnambula has also worked closely with The Hispanic Society in New York, designing concerts featuring little-known female composers and American premieres of both 18th-century Cuban sacred music and Spanish zarzuela. The ensemble's award-winning recording of 17th-century composer Leonora Duarte was released on Centaur Records.
http://www.sonnambula.org/