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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Sydney Seminar for the</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> <b>Arts and Philosophy<br>
</b><a href="http://sydneyseminar.org/wp/2012/05/seminar-18-music-and-philosophy-after-modernism/">http://sydneyseminar.org/wp/2012/05/seminar-18-music-and-philosophy-after-modernism/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Presented by the University of Western<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Sydney and Big Ideas, ABC Radio National<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">(<a href="http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas">www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bigideas</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Date: </span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Friday,
June 1, 2012</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">6 - 8 pm</span><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Eugene Goosens Hall<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Cost: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Admission Free<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">A Dialogue on Music and Philosophy after Modernism</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">And<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Music by Martin Bresnick, Frederic Rzewski,</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">and Gyorgy Ligeti</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Featuring</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Composer, Martin Bresnick (Yale),<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Philosopher, Nikolas Kompridis (UWS)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Pianist, Lisa Moore (New York)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Programme</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Part I<span class="apple-style-span"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Lisa Moore performing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Strange Devotion </span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">by Martin Bresnick<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Piano Piece no 4 </span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">by Frederic Rzewski<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">The Dream of the Lost Traveller </span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">by Martin
Bresnick<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Musica Ricercata VII </span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">by Gyorgy Ligeti<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Part II </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">A philosophical dialogue between Martin Bresnick<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">and Nikolas Kompridis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Does music have need of philosophy? Or does music speak for itself, and whatever it is <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">that musiccannot say of and from itself, evade philosophy altogether?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Where is music after modernism? Does it still have a coherentand distinctive purpose? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">How has the emergence of world musics decentred musical modernism?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Did modernism in philosophy and modernism in music share some common assumptions and attitudes? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">After modernism, do philosophy and music share some common challenges?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">In light of musical and philosophical pluralism, what do philosophers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">and composers owe their students?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Does the new matter anymore? Did the project of the “new” become<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">meaningless after the demise of modernism? If so, to what does<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">contemporary art music aspire?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Part III </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">An open discussion involving members of the audience, </span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Martin Bresnick, Nikolas Kompridis, and Lisa Moore.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Martin Bresnick</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">
is Professor of Composition and Director of the</span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Composition Program at Yale University. Besides having received many<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">prizes and commissions, he is also recognized as an influential teacher of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">composition. Students from every part of the globe and of virtually every<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">musical inclination have been inspired by his critical encouragement:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://www.martinbresnick.com" target="_blank">www.martinbresnick.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Nikolas Kompridis</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> is Professorial Fellow
in Philosophy at the University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">of Western Sydney, and the author
<i>Critique and Disclosure: Critical Theory</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">between Past and Future
</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">(MIT 2006) and the editor of
<i>Philosophical</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Romanticism
</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">(Routledge 2006) and
<i>The Aesthetic Turn in Political Theory</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">(Continuum 2012). He also studied composition with Martin Bresnick<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">at Yale, and was the founder and director of the Canadian new music<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">ensemble, Sound Pressure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Lisa Moore</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"> is an Australian pianist who
lives in New York and teaches<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">piano at Wesleyan University. She has been referred to as “The queen of<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">avant-garde piano” by the New Yorker magazine. Lisa Moore has released 6<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">solo discs and over 30 collaborative discs (Sony, Nonesuch, DG, CRI, BMG,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black">Point, New World, ABC Classics, Albany, New Albion):
<a href="http://www.lisamoore.org">www.lisamoore.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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