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Public Research Seminar: Yvonne Loriod

Public Research Seminar: Yvonne Loriod

RBC French Season 2024–25

Date and time
03 Dec 2024 (3:30pm - 5:00pm)
Location

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire - Workshop 2

200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR

Price

Free - booking required

Booking Information

Seminars are in RBC Workshop 2 and can also be accessed online via Zoom. A link to view the seminar via Zoom will be emailed ahead of the session.

Real and virtual doors will open around 3.25pm, the seminar begins at 3.30pm and discussion will conclude around 4.55pm.

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Peter Asimov

Yvonne Loriod and the Ambiguity of Submission
Public Research Seminar: Peter Asimov

This paper retraces the creative entwinement of Yvonne Loriod and Olivier Messiaen over the 1940s and ’50s - from their hitherto concealed compositional dialogues through her decision to cease composition in favour of a performance career devoted to his œuvre. Drawing upon music analysis, performance research, and feminist scholarship by Simone de Beauvoir and Manon Garcia, I reconcile a critique of patriarchal modernism with an effort to understand how Loriod’s desire to ‘fuse’ with Messiaen shaped the course of their artistic trajectory, and of modernist music more broadly.

Peter Asimov is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow (from October: Assistant Professor) at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Magdalene College. He was also a research associate at the Bibliothèque nationale de France from 2021–24. His research on nineteenth- and twentieth-century French music is published or forthcoming in 19th-Century Music, the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, and the Journal of Musicology, as well as in several edited volumes.

Seminars are in RBC Workshop 2 and can also be accessed online via Zoom. A link to view the seminar via Zoom will be emailed ahead of the session.

Real and virtual doors will open around 3.25pm, the seminar begins at 3.30pm and discussion will conclude around 4.55pm.

Running time approx. 90 minutes

Forthcoming events in RBC French Season 2024–25

Forthcoming dates include: