Song, Stage and Screen
Performing Literatures
The Orpheus Myth in Modern Culture
4th Annual Film and Music Conference
Yorkshire Universities Annual Conference 2008
Music and the Idea of the North

Song, Stage and Screen
23 – 25 March 07
A three-day conference brought together scholars from across the world, working in music, the stage and screen. Hosted by the University of Leeds’ School of Performance and Cultural Industries, the conference explored interdisciplinary approaches to the musical stage.
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/paci/songstagescreen.html

Performing Literatures
29 June – 1 July 07
Organised by the University’s Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Theatre and Theatricalities, five interlinking strands: institutional; professional; theoretical; historical; and intercultural, were explored through dialogue between scholars and artists from varying backgrounds: -
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/theatre/conferences/performingliteratures

The Orpheus Myth in Modern Culture
Friday 23 - Sunday 25 November
A collaborative venture between Opera North Projects and the University of Leeds School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies. Over three afternoons, leading speakers from the arts and academic worlds explored the enduring potency of the Orpheus Myth – from Monteverdi’s opera to American TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. As well as the discussions the conference featured film screenings (including Jean Cocteau’s Orphee and Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus), poetry readings and live performance.
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4th Annual Film and Music Conference
Bradford Film Festival, 4 - 5 March 2008
Shakespeare was the theme of this year's conference, hosted by The University of Leeds School of Music, the School of Art at Brunel University, and the National Media Museum, Bradford, and in association with the DARE collaboration. Highlights included a keynote interview with Patrick Doyle, and a master class hosted by Gary Carpenter. http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/biff/guest_detail.asp?filmid=7631 http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/filmmusic/

Yorkshire Universities Annual Conference 2008
February 2008
Dominic Gray, Projects Director, Opera North and Susan Daniels, Head of the School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds presented the DARE collaboration as a case study of the cultural role of Higher Education at this year's confrence in Harrogate in February. http://www.yorkshireuniversities.ac.uk/confstrand608.php

Music and the Idea of the North
Leeds Town Hall, 5-7 September 2008
This conference - a collaboration between the University of Leeds School of Music and the Institute of Northern Studies at Leeds Met, Opera North, and Leeds International Concert Season - will celebrate the 150th anniversary of Leeds Town Hall, culminating in a gala performance of Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast on 6 September, featuring the Orchestra of Opera North.

International speakers from the UK, US, Canada, Scandinavia, Germany, Italy, and Russia, will explore relationships between music and northern identities across the globe.
Opera North is coordinating a roundtable discussion on ‘Cultural Regeneration and the Idea of the “New” North’, and is sponsoring a presentation and performance by Yorkshire-born composer Gavin Bryars of his piece The North Shore for piano and viola.

An event on ‘Music and the Far North’ is being planned at the School of Music on 6 September.

The preliminary programme will be released shortly – see the conference website for details: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/research/conf_north.shtml

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