[ANPPOM-L] CFP: First International Conference of Messiaen Studies

[carlos palombini]

The First International Conference of Messiaen Studies will be held to 
celebrate the centenary of Messiaen's birth. Guest speakers will include 
Prof. Graham Hair (Glasgow), Prof. Larry Sitsky (Canberra), Dr Mark 
Carroll (Adelaide) and Prof. Marc Battier (Paris). There will be several 
concerts of Messiaen's music, including piano recitals by Michael 
Kieran-Harvey and Larry Sitsky and an organ recital by Phillip Gearing.

The conference will be held in Toowoomba, Australia, March 29-April 1, 
2008 - in the mountains one and a half hours west of Brisbane. Toowoomba 
is a lovely historic town with beautiful views, less than two hours 
drive from the Gold Coast.

Proposal Guidelines: Call for papers for inclusion within the following 
Sessions:
(1) Messiaen in Australia,
(2) Messiaen's musical language,
(3) Messiaen and spirituality
(4) Other (ornithology, technology, biography etc.)

The papers should be 20 minutes in length and formatted for inclusion 
within conference proceedings. The conference panel will select papers 
for possible further publication in the form of an edited book to be 
compiled later in 2008.

Please submit 500 word proposals by the 16th December, 2007 to Dr Judith 
Crispin - crispin at usq.edu.au
More information: http://www.publicmemory.org

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