2007_Symposium Composing under Suspicion
2007_Symposium Composing under Suspicion
Programme
"Composing under suspicion" is the theme of the second Oldenburg symposium in the "Between Times [Shifting Times]" series. The focus is on the Romanian composers Pascal Bentoiu and Stefan Niculescu, who have pursued their musical path undeterred despite severe repression in Romania: on 23 and 24 November 2007, both at 7:30 pm, portrait concerts of the two composers will take place in the Altes Gynmasium Oldenburg, and on 24 and 25 November there will be a symposium in the BKGE from 9:30 am. Admission to all events is free.
The more rigorous a dictatorship is, the more it respects its music. The dictatorships of the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of Romania have a special role to play in the formulation of binding theoretical guidelines and their practical implementation: nowhere else has the ideological adaptation of music been pursued so consistently and scientifically as in these two countries of the former Eastern Bloc.
Friday, 23.11.2007
Altes Gymnasium Oldenburg, Theaterwall 11, 26122 Oldenburg
19:30 Welcome
H.E. Bogdan Mazuru, Ambassador of Romania
Prof. Dr Uwe Schneidewind, President of the University of Oldenburg
Martin Schumacher, Head of Cultural Affairs of the City of Oldenburg
Karl-Ernst Went, Head of the Music Department of the Oldenburg University Library
20:00 Concert
Pascal Bentoiu: Songs
Ioana Bentoiu (soprano), Steluta Radu (piano)
Portrait Pascal Bentoiu
Ensemble Profil
Saturday, 24 November 2007
9:30 a.m. Symposium
Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe, Johann-Justus-Weg 147a, 26127 Oldenburg
19:30 Concert
Altes Gymnasium Oldenburg, Theaterwall 11, 26122 Oldenburg
Portrait Stefan Niculescu
Ensemble Archaeus
Sunday, 25.11.207
9.30 a.m. Symposium
Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe, Johann-Justus-Weg 147a, 26127 Oldenburg
End of the event around 2 pm