Appel de conférences – « Music and the Arts in France – 1925: Anniversaries and Confluences » – 21 mars 2025

Appel de conférences pour le colloque « Music and the Arts in France – 1925: Anniversaries and Confluences », University of Leeds, 13-15 novembre 2025.

« Music and the Arts in France – 1925 is an international Conference and Festival that takes 1925 as the confluence for exploring key composers for whom it was a significant date. 1925 was the year of Ravel’s 50th birthday, of Satie and Caplet’s deaths, and the birth of Boulez.  The Conference and Festival will draw widely on music and sister arts surrounding these figures, such as Symbolism, Surrealism, Cubism, Neoclassicism and Abstraction.  The year 1925 was marked by some significant musical and artistic moments, including the Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes that not only sought to honour the Allied countries of the First World War while demonstrating the artistic might of Paris, but also engendered the term Art Deco to describe the new international modernist style. With 1925 as the nexus, its compass will reach from Ravel’s birth in 1875 to and beyond Boulez.  Working with our artistic partners and collaborators, including the Leeds International Piano Competition, Leeds Lieder, Art Sung and the University of Leeds International Concert Series, the Conference will have a prominent public-facing performance element, including Masterclasses, concerts and featuring new compositions inspired by the Conference and Festival themes.

We particularly welcome papers, themed sessions and lecture-recitals that address the following:

– Significant anniversaries: including notably the 150th anniversaries of Maurice Ravel and the première of Bizet’s Carmen, the centenary of the deaths of Erik Satie, André Caplet and the birth of Pierre Boulez. We welcome proposals addressing the worldwide significance and legacy of these figures.

– Music and artistic culture in 1925: the ways in which Ravel, Caplet and Satie played signal roles in contributing to the major artistic trends of their time. For example, 1925 marked the première of Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges in Monte Carlo and the creation of La Revue nègre.

– Inter-art collaborations with writers, artists, set designers and dancers.  The period saw a flowering of French mélodie with settings of contemporaneous poets. It was also a time of fruitful and memorable collaborations, often brokered by impresarios and institutions, notably by Jane Bathori at the Vieux-Colombier, Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, Rolf de Maré and the Ballets Suédois, Jean-Louis Barrault at the Théâtre Marigny, and Fernand Léger and Blaise Cendrars at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.

– Performers and conductors who specialised in the music of Ravel, Satie, Caplet and Boulez, including Jane Bathori, Claire Croiza, Rose Féart, Ricardo Viñes, Robert and Gaby Casadesus, Jacques Février, Yvonne Loriod, Claude Helffer, Marcelle Mercenier, Roger Désormière, Gabriel Pierné, André Caplet and Pierre Boulez.

– Critics and writers who shaped the reputations of these composers and of French music of this period, such as Roland-Manuel, Georges Auric, Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi, Léon-Paul Fargue, Henry Prunières, Vladimir Jankélévitch and Antoine Goléa.

Proposals in both English and French are welcome. »

Date limite de soumission : 21 mars 2025.

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