Institute for Russian Music Studies Conference - Day 2

9:00 Milan = 10:00 Moscow = 15:00 Shanghai, Hong Kong = 3:00 AM New York

Music, Russian Empire & the Provinces

Chair - Maria Razumovskaya, Guildhall School of Music, London, UK

9:00 - Stefania Feletto, MM Candidate, Conservatory of Padua, University of Padua, Italy

Film Music as Propaganda. Conveying State Ideology through Music in The Battle for Our Soviet Ukraine

9:40 - Hannah CJ McLaughlin, PhD Candidate, Princeton University, USA

Echoes of Empire in Soviet Sci-Fi: Valentin Kruchinin’s “Aelita”

10:30 - Bella Brover-Lubovsky, Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Israel

Taking a Wig off: Giuseppe Sarti in the Russian Empire

11:10 - 12:40 Lunch

Bella Brover-Lubovsky, Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Israel

12:40 - Nikita Mamedov, North America International School, Shanghai, China

Transformative Harmony in Scriabin’s Étude Op. 8 No. 12

13:20 - Alec Wood, PhD candidate, Yale University, USA

Gesture as Chiastic Relation in Scriabin and Obukhov

14:00 - 14:10 Break

Chair - Daniil Zavlunov, Stetson University

14:10 - Madeline Styskal, MM Candidate, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Прекрасное далёко: Space-Age Dreams of a Bright Future in Song

14:50 - Lim Bing Nan, PhD candidate, Northwestern University, USA

Gogol's "Christmas Eve" and Two Imperial Operas

15:30-15:40 Break

15:40 - Joshua Bedford, Middle Tennessee State University, USA

Rethinking Socialist Realism: Some Observations from Soviet Opera in the 1930s

16:20 - Inna Naroditskaya, Northwestern University, USA

Sashka/Yashka, Odessa Fiddlers Gone Global