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Registration is now open for Unmasking Max: Peter Maxwell Davies Study Day, Cardiff University, School of Music, Saturday 25 April 2020 Programme: 9.00 Arrival/registration (refreshments available) 9.25 Welcome and opening remarks 9.30 Session 1 - Rodney Lister (Boston University): ‘That was Now, This is Then’ - Alexander Kolassa (Open University): ‘“A crazy clutter of the mediaeval, medical mind”: Peter Maxwell Davies in Ken Russell’s The Devils’ 10.30 Break / refreshments 11.00 Session 2 - Upa Mesbahian (King’s College London): ‘The Lighthouse: A Tale of Collective Madness’ - Richard McGregor (Royal Conservatoire of Scotland): ‘Taking The No. 11 Bus to the Resurrection’ 12.00 Lunch and book launch of The Music of Peter Maxwell Davies (co-authored by Nicholas Jones and Richard McGregor): https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__boydellandbrewer.com_the-2Dmusic-2Dof-2Dpeter-2Dmaxwell-2Ddavies-2Dhb.html&d=DwIFaQ&c=Cu5g146wZdoqVuKpTNsYHeFX_rg6kWhlkLF8Eft-wwo&r=PHu0YcldevQqIedM86l0iexbqE-AeZLl-lupNToNx6I&m=vXEtvlcC0ZGZULmB7l3uD81EcmkCHuPl45UWmqoeWL0&s=1AxQwYPL1dlE6bdVLERMa7lk_zG-QtQLAUttLwVdKao&e= 1.00 Paper / lunchtime concert - Nicholas Jones (Cardiff University): ‘Early Chamber Works’, featuring several world premieres of works dating from the late 1940s and early 1950s. 2.00 Keynote - Christopher Austin (Royal Academy of Music): ‘Peter Maxwell Davies and The Twilight Zone’ 3.15 Break / refreshments 3.45 Session 3 - Thomas Hyde (King’s College London/Oxford University): ‘Salford Fairgrounds and Five-legged sheep: Peter Maxwell Davies’s Construction of his Own Childhood and the Ambiguities of Mythmaking’ - Sylvia Junge: ‘Max’s Music for Children and Amateurs: A Personal View’ 4.45 Roundtable discussion: ‘Remembering Max’ - Christopher Austin, Sally Groves, Sylvia Junge, Nicholas Jones (Chair) 5.30 Close 7.00 Evening concert, including a performance of Eight Songs for a Mad King, conducted by Joshua Ballance, soloist Barney Wolstenholme; introduced by Nicholas Jones and Richard McGregor Registration, including tea/coffee, lunch and lunchtime concert, will cost £25 for the day. Please click on the following link to book your place: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ticketsource.co.uk_cardiffmusic_t-2Dopvpja&d=DwIFaQ&c=Cu5g146wZdoqVuKpTNsYHeFX_rg6kWhlkLF8Eft-wwo&r=PHu0YcldevQqIedM86l0iexbqE-AeZLl-lupNToNx6I&m=vXEtvlcC0ZGZULmB7l3uD81EcmkCHuPl45UWmqoeWL0&s=c3ImHkJsMuvNYU4_IxsJBOPzhxNPNRSpuEFJhjs3eVQ&e= Following the study day, the School of Music is hosting an evening concert that includes a performance of Davies’s Eight Songs for a Mad King. Please note that the cost of a ticket for this concert is in addition to the study day registration fee and can be purchased here: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ticketsource.co.uk_cardiffmusic_t-2Dkmmgno&d=DwIFaQ&c=Cu5g146wZdoqVuKpTNsYHeFX_rg6kWhlkLF8Eft-wwo&r=PHu0YcldevQqIedM86l0iexbqE-AeZLl-lupNToNx6I&m=vXEtvlcC0ZGZULmB7l3uD81EcmkCHuPl45UWmqoeWL0&s=ztJILNMBCLVxX70FqXCVLDwZpfu2Kyrn2JyAj2EgGfU&e= _______________________________________________ AMS-Announce mailing list and bulletin board: WANT TO SUBMIT A POST? See: http://www.amsmusicology.org/page/announce TO SEE THE ARCHIVED POSTS: https://LISTSERV.UNL.EDU/cgi-bin/wa?A0=AMS-ANNOUNCE TO UNSUBSCRIBE, or switch to/from Digest mode: log in to https://LISTSERV.UNL.EDU and edit your subscription. AMS-Announce: A service of the American Musicological Society, www.amsmusicology.org