Sensation and Sensibility at the Keyboard in the Late Eighteenth Century

12:30 pm – 1:00 pm

Anabel Taylor Chapel
Registration and coffee

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Anabel Taylor Chapel
Welcome and Introductory Recital
Welcome by Annette Richards, Cornell University
David Yearsley, organ, performs music of the Bach sons.

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

120 Physical Sciences Building
Sensation, Sensibility and Making Sense
Moderator: David Yearsley, Cornell University

2:30 pm – 3:15 pm
Matthew Head, King’s College London

3:15 pm – 4:00 pm
Yonatan Bar-Yoshafat, Cornell University

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

120 Physical Sciences Building
Keynote Address I
Moderator: Roger Moseley, Cornell University
James Kennaway, Newcastle University

The Nerves, Refinement and Over-Stimulation: Medicine and Music in the Age of Sensibility

8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Carriage House Café
Recital
Tom Beghin, clavichord, performs music by C. P. E. Bach.

9:30 am – 12:00 pm

B20 Lincoln Hall
Cultivating Feeling
Moderator: Roger Moseley, Cornell University

9:30 am – 10:15 am
David Schulenberg, Wagner College/Juilliard School

10:15 am – 11:00 am
Annette Richards, Cornell University

11:00 am – 11:15 am
Break

11:15 am – 12:00 pm
Nicholas Mathew, University of California, Berkeley

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

B20 Lincoln Hall
Recital
Andrew Willis, fortepiano, performs music by C. P. E. Bach and his contemporaries.

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

2B48 Carl A. Kroch Library
Aesthetic Contexts
Moderator: Annalise Smith, Cornell University
Sensibility and the Sublime in the C. P. E. Bach Circle: Creating an Exhibition in the Cornell Libraries
Alex Brown, Dietmar Friesenegger, Matthew Hall, Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, David Miller, and Jordan Musser, Cornell University

4:30 pm – 6:00 pm

B20 Lincoln Hall
Keynote Address II
Moderator: Annette Richards, Cornell University
Richard Kramer, CUNY Graduate Center

The Klopstock Moment

8:00 pm – 10:00 pm

Barnes Hall
Atkinson Forum Concert
Ars Lyrica Houston, dir. Matthew Dirst, with soloists Lucy Fitz Gibbon, soprano; Sarah Mesko, mezzo-soprano; Dennis James, glass harmonica; and Annette Richards, organ. C. P. E. Bach’s Symphony for 12 Obbligato Instruments in F Major, Wq 183/3 and Organ Concerto in G Major, Wq 34, as well as J. C. F. Bach’s Die Amerikanerin and J. A. Hasse’s cantata for soprano and glass harmonica, L’Armonica.

9:00am – 9:45 am
Pierpaolo Polzonetti, University of Notre Dame

9:45 am – 10:45 am
Emily Dolan, Harvard University, and Dennis James, Rutgers University

10:45 am – 11:00 am
Break

2:00 pm – 3:30pm

B20 Lincoln Hall
Touching Instruments: Technologies of the Keyboard
Roundtable: Emily Dolan, Harvard University; Andrew McPherson, University of London; Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, Cornell University; and Roger Moseley, Cornell University.

Ryan MacEvoy McCullough performs Secrets of Antikythera for magnetic resonator piano by Andrew McPherson.

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Barnes Hall
Concert
Members of the Cornell Baroque Orchestra, Cornell Chamber Orchestra, dir. Chris Younghoon Kim, and members of the Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club, dir. Robert Isaacs, perform Klopstocks Morgengesang am Schöfungsfeste, Wq 239, Symphony in B Minor, Wq 182/5, and chamber music by C. P. E. Bach.

8:00 pm – 9:30 pm

Anabel Taylor Chapel
Recital
Peter Sykes, clavichord, performs music by C. P. E. Bach, Haydn, and Beethoven.