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The Lithuanian language : history and prospects
Luigi Rizzi, chair General Linguistics
The Lithuanian language : history and prospects
Luigi Rizzi, chair General Linguistics
Guest lecturer
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Scenes from the private and public life of animals (The adventures of a butterfly), J .J. Grandville This symposium, in English, organized by François Recanati and Merel Semeijn, brings together researchers who explore the limits of the concept of …
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Well scene, Lascaux cave frescoes. …
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This event is not broadcast online. The concert is open to the public by invitation or prior registration . Registration is compulsory: attendance on the day of the 23 rd does not guarantee a place. Program Presentation by Jean-Louis Leleu, Professor …
20:00 to 21:30
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Hosted by Nicolas Donin …
17:15 to 18:15
Christian Merlin
Opposition to Boulez, between personal resentment and opposition to a model
Christian Merlin
Opposition to Boulez, between personal resentment and opposition to a model
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Abstract It's hardly surprising that a man who built his career on disobedience and refusal of authority should have seen his own authority challenged early on. The virulence of opposition to Boulez was commensurate with the man's intransigence and the …
16:00 to 16:45
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Abstract Throughout Pierre Boulez's career, his creative activity was matched by complementary professional roles designed first and foremost to promote the dissemination of his work and the modern works he supported: founder and director of institutions, …
15:15 to 16:00
Hourig Sourouzian
Egyptian statuary in temples
Hourig Sourouzian
Egyptian statuary in temples
Guest lecturer
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Abstract Divine and royal statuary is an integral part of the Egyptian temple. The temples we visit today may have kept their walls, and sometimes even their ceilings, but most of them are almost completely emptied of their rich furnishings, which …
17:00 to 18:00
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Conference in English. Abstract Pierre Boulez reminds us that one of the sources of the form of Anthèmes 1 is the plainchant Lamentations of Jeremiah , which he sang in his youth during the First Nocturne service on Holy Thursday. The most striking …
12:00 to 12:45
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Abstract Long before 1977 marked the inauguration of Ircam and the start of his lectures at the Collège de France, Pierre Boulez had laid the foundations for his public activities. He had even done so by stirring up resounding polemics that left little …
14:30 to 15:15
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A sunset by William Turner a few years after the eruption of the Tambora volcano …
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Abstract "Music doesn't need a laboratory". With these words, the famous physicist and Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg at the Max Planck Institute rejected Pierre Boulez's project for collaboration between science and music in 1970. Did Werner …
11:15 to 12:00
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Abstract In November 1970, at the request of President Georges Pompidou, Pierre Boulez began work on a project to integrate a music research institute into the future Beaubourg Plateau art center. Over the next three years, Boulez consulted and assembled …
10:15 to 11:00
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This event is not broadcast online. Program Presentation by Nicolas Donin and Jonathan Goldman Pierre Boulez Dérive 1 , for six instruments (the work will be performed twice) Répons , for six soloists, ensemble and electronics (excerpt) Tristan …
18:30 to 19:30
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Abstract The main part of Boulez's last lecture at the Collège de France - "L'œuvre: tout ou fragment" (The work: whole or fragment) - deals with the different types of relationship that the fragment and the whole can have within the work , depending on …
17:00 to 17:45
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Abstract Pierre Boulez has a unique relationship with archives and libraries. The composer, who wanted to "burn libraries" and made them the site of the tension between memory and creation, was himself interested in the archives of others, and took care …
15:15 to 16:00
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Abstract A landmark work, Pierre Boulez's Répons (1980-82) was written to showcase the technological potential of IRCAM, the Parisian Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music that Boulez founded in 1977. This piece, like many others, was …
16:15 to 17:00
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Abstract In 1986, Pierre Boulez signed a contract to donate his musical manuscripts to the Swiss conductor and patron Paul Sacher, a friend of many years. The collection was the cornerstone of the musical holdings that have since been preserved and …
14:30 to 15:15
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12:00 to 12:45
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Abstract Pierre Boulez has written and spoken surprisingly little about composers active in the second half of the twentieth century. A prolific author and passionate commentator on composers such as Webern, Schoenberg and Debussy, whom he integrated into …
11:15 to 12:00
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Abstract The topic of musical material features prominently throughout Boulez's College de France lectures, and in this paper I set out to establish some of the principal elements of its elaboration. Boulez spoke of the dissatisfaction experienced by …
10:15 to 11:00
Jean-Jacques Nattiez
Boulez the writer
Jean-Jacques Nattiez
Boulez the writer
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Abstract Pierre Boulez was not only the composer of thirty-three works (and their revisions), but also the author of books of various kinds: compositional techniques, interviews, correspondence and three volumes containing one hundred and fifty articles …
09:30 to 10:15
Mark Bowick
Facets of Order
Mark Bowick
Facets of Order
Guest lecturer
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Abstract Sharp structures can occur as minimizers of very regular problems. This means symmetry can lead us badly astray and the resultant symmetry breaking may lead to highly counter-intuitive structures. I will illustrate in a discrete example and then …
14:00 to 15:00