International Symposium: “Understanding Bach's B-minor Mass”

2Session 4 (11:30-13:00): Composition and Meaning (2): Proportion (Chair: Reinhard Strohm)Ruth Tatlow (Stockholm University, Sweden): “Parallel Proportions, Final Revisions and the Status ofthe Manuscript P180”Ulrich Siegele (University of Tübingen, Germany): “Some Observations on the Formal Design ofBach’s B-minor Mass”Response by John Butt (University of Glasgow)DiscussionLunch breakSession 5 (14:00-15:40): Theology (Chair: Robin A. Leaver, Westminster Choir College of RiderUniversity, USA)Mary Dalton Greer (Cambridge, MA, USA): “Bach’s Calov Bible and his Quest for the Title of RoyalCourt Composer”Robin A. Leaver (Westminster Choir College of Rider University, USA): “How ‘Catholic’ is Bach’s‘Lutheran’ Mass?”Response by Anne Leahy (DIT Conservatory of Drama and Music, Ireland)DiscussionTea breakSession 6 (15:40-17:40): Sources and Editions (Chair: Ulrich Leisinger, Internationale StiftungMozarteum Salzburg, Austria)Tatiana Shabalina (St. Petersburg State Conservatoire «Rimsky-Korsakov», Russia): “ManuscriptScore No. 4500 in St. Petersburg: A New Source of the B-minor Mass” Uwe Wolf (Bach-Archiv Leipzig, Germany): “Many Problems, Different Solutions? Editing Bach’s B-Minor Mass”Hans-Joachim Schulze (Bach-Archiv Leipzig, Germany): “Tracing the Sources of the B-minor Massbefore 1800”Response by Daniel Boomhower (Kent State University, USA)DiscussionReceptionKeynote Paper by Christoph Wolff (Harvard University, USA): “Past, Present, and Future—Perspectives on Bach’s B-Minor Mass” (introduced by Ian Woodfield, Queen’s University Belfast)Conference DinnerSunday, 4 November 2007Session 7 (09:30-11:30): Performance Issues (Chair: John Butt, University of Glasgow)Jan-Piet Knijiff (Queens College & Hofstra University, USA): “Performing Bach’s B-minor Mass: SomeNotes by Heinrich Schenker”Uri Golomb (Tel Aviv, Israel): “Intensity, Complexity and Musical Rhetoric in Performances of theMass in B minor”