2 December 2005

CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
Martin E. Segal Theatre

9:30 – 10:00     Registration

10:00 – 10:45   Welcoming remarks

Barbara Dobbs MACKENZIE, Director of the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Linda N. EDWARDS, Provost of The Graduate Center, CUNY

Bogdan STEFANESCU, Acting Director of the Romanian Cultural Institute of New York

Inaugural Address by Lori Wallfisch, Honorary Chair of the Enescu Festival (Professor Emeritus, Smith College, Northampton, MA)

10:45 – 12:45   Lori Wallfisch, chair

Jörg Siepermann (Freue Universität Berlin), The importance of having been Enescu

Marin Marian BĂlaŞa (Romanian Academy of Sciences, Bucharest), On the real geographies of Enescu’s inner worlds

Cornel Ţăranu (Gheorghe Dima Academy of Music, Cluj), Enescu in the light of an unfinished work

12:45 - 2:00   Lunch Break

2:00 – 3:00    Keynote lecture-recital: Jörg Sipermann, chair

Dinu GHEZZO (New York University), Modal-tonal tendencies in George Enescu’s sonata no. 3 for piano and violin, with musical illustration by Sherban LUPU (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and Ilinca DUMITRESCU (National George Enescu Museum, Bucharest)

3:00 – 4:30    Dinu Ghezzo, chair

Dumitru VITCU (A.D.Xenopol Institute of History, Iaşi),  Reflections on Enescu’s American musical itinerary

Antoni Pizà (Foundation for Iberian Music, CUNY Graduate Center), Enescu's Spanish crossroads:  How a Romanian Shaped Spanish musical nationalism

Ilias Chrissochoidis (Stanford University), From Romanian folklore to Greek nationalism: The cultural migration of Nikos Astrinidis

4:30 – 5:15    Break

5:15 - 6:00    Richard Burke (Hunter College, CUNY), Enescu’s Oedipe: Confronting operatic modernism

6:00 – 7:00    Keynote lecture: Richard Burke, chair

Andrei Serban (Columbia University) Staging Oedipe at the National Opera in Bucharest

8:00             Recital, Rachel WATKINS, soprano & Cristina STANESCU, piano Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall program

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3 December 2005

Romanian Cultural Institute
200 East 38th Street

2:00 – 4:00       Marin Marian Bălaşa, chair

Christina Placilla (Winston-Salem State University), Doïna, Brâu and Batuta: Romanian folk elements in George Enescu’s Concertstück

Luana STAN (Université de Paris IV Sorbonne & Université de Montréal), George Enescu’s musical influence on the following generations – reality or identity justification?

Mihaela Buhaiciuc (State University of New York, Stony Brook), Elements of style in Enescu’s Sept chansons de Clement Marot

Ruxandra Cristea (Université de Montréal), Enescu – composer. Serialism in the second suite for piano in D major, op. 10

4:15 - 5:15    Privire din interior/Looking from Inside: George Enescu - Oedipe - Andrei Serban, a film by Florin Mihailescu, documenting the 1995 production of George Enescu’s opera Oedipe staged at the Bucharest National Opera and directed by Andrei Sherban. Film produced by Panoceanuc Romania SRL, Romsat-Tele 7 abc, Fundatia Culturala Romana, and Editura Video-Ministerul Culturi. 58 minutes. In Romanian with English subtitles.

5:15 - 6:30    Break

6:30             Opening of the Enescu photodocumentary exhibition at the East-West Gallery of the Romanian Cultural Institute
Ilinca Dumitrescu, Director of the National George Enescu Museum (Bucharest)
Prof. David Williams (Central College, Pella, Iowa)
Lori Wallfisch (Prof. Emerita at Smith College, Northampton, MA)
Gabriel Banat (concert violinist and author)

The exhibition will include a screening (continuous loop) of "Patricia Brady-Danzig: Dedication to Enescu. An American's Celebration of George Enescu's Heritage to the World".

7:30              Recital, Ruxandra CRISTEA, piano program

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