Ph.D.- DMA Programs in Music & Barry S. Brook Center for Musical Research and Documentation, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
North American British Music Studies Association
The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society

RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958): FIFTY YEARS ON
Conference and Concert

14 November 2008
Elebash Recital Hall
The Graduate Center
The City University of New York
For more details contact: phd-dmaconcert@gc.cuny.edu

8:30-9:15 SECOND BREAKFAST

PAPERS

9:30-12:15 SESSION I

Chair: Michael Beckerman
(New York University)

Hitch Your Wagon to a Star: The Enduring Vision of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Stephen Connock
(Vice-President and Chairman, The Ralph Vaughan Williams Society)

Vaughan Williams and German Romantic Aesthetics
Julian Onderdonk
(West Chester University)

A Little French Polish: Vaughan Williams’s Lessons with Ravel
Byron Adams
(University of California/Riverside)

The Trials of an English Job: Vaughan Williams, Pastiche, and the Culture of History
Deborah L. Heckert
(State University of New York/Stony Brook)

12:15-2:00 LUNCH (OR THIRD BREAKFAST)

2:00-4:45 SESSION II

A Thing of Wonder: Triadic Magic in Early Vaughan Williams
Julian Rushton
(University of Leeds)

Tonal Aspects of Vaughan Williams’s Pastoral Symphony
David Stern
(Los Angeles)

Valedictory Variazioni: Vaughan Williams, Malipiero, and the First Movement of the Eight Symphony
Eric Saylor
(Drake University)

RVW: The Next Fifty Years
(Followed by a panel discussion)
Alain Frogley
(University of Connecticut)

CONCERT (7:30)

Sonata in A minor for violin and piano (1954)

I. Fantasia—allegro giusto
II. Scherzo—allegro furioso ma non troppo
III. Tema con Variazione—andante—allegro

Yavet Boyadjiev violin
Jin-Ok Lee piano

The Lake in the Mountains (1947)
Norman Carey, piano

Along the Field:
Eight Housman Songs for voice and violin (1927)

1. We'll to the woods no more (Last Poems, Prologue)
2. Along the field (A Shropshire Lad, xxvi)
3. The half-moon westers low (Last Poems, xxvi)
4. In the morning (Last Poems, xxiii
5. The sigh that heaves the grasses (Last Poems, xxvii)
6. Goodbye (A Shropshire Lad, v)
7. Fancy's knell (Last Poems, xli)
8. With rue my heart is laden (A Shropshire Lad, liv)

Stephanie Jensen-Moulton soprano
Yavet Boyadjiev violin

Bushes and Briars
Why fum'th in sight: the Gentil's spyght
When rising from the bed of death

St. Paul's Chapel Choir
Ina Woods soprano
Eliza Langley-Wilbur mezzo-soprano
R.C. Laird tenor
Blake Howe baritone