[ANPPOM-Lista] CFP: The Organ in the Global Baroque

[Martha Tupinambá de Ulhoa]

*Conference-Concert Festival: The Organ in the Global Baroque (in honor of
the late Jacques van Oortmerssen)*

Cornell University, Ithaca NY, in collaboration with the Westfield Center
for Historical Keyboard Studies

September 6-8, 2018

The baroque organ was an artifact of global culture produced by
international networks of artists, artisans, traders, and
adventurers. Organs of the Hanseatic League, built at the nexus of trade
routes that reached around the world, incorporated materials from across
the oceans: Cornish tin, tropical woods, gold and silver. Even as their
distinctive material characteristics contributed to the invisible
mechanisms that converted air into sound, these instruments lavishly
displayed the wealth accrued through global trade by the communities that
owned them. But organs themselves were also instruments of trade: the
organs of the Brebos brothers found their way from Flanders to Spain, and
those of Arp Schnitger from Hamburg to Brazil. In the cathedrals of the New
World, indigenous artisans collaborated on *conquistador* organs that
sounded out the meeting of colonizer and colonized. And if organs built between
the 16th and the 18th centuries embodied and participated in global musical
and material networks, so too did the ‘baroque organ’ in the 20th century,
with the creation—especially in Asia—of landmark instruments built in
historically informed styles that fostered new organ cultures.

This conference is conceived in honor of the late Jacques van Oortmerssen,
whose cosmopolitan organ class in Amsterdam embodied internationalism. We
invite papers that reflect in imaginative ways on the organ in the global
baroque, then and now. Topics might include (but are not limited to) organ
building and trade networks, organists and travel, global materials and
musical technologies, colonialism, organs and the material exploitation of
the natural world, the organ trade in Asia and South America, and the
baroque organ in today’s world.

The conference committee welcomes paper proposals for 25-minute
presentations. We particularly welcome proposals from younger scholars, and
hope to make some funding assistance available for travel to the conference
for current students. Abstracts of c. 300 words should be sent to
info em westfield.org


Martha Tupinambá de Ulhôa
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