'CROSSING BORDERS': The 38th Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association

28 November - 1 December 2002

The 38th Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association is the first ever to take place in Scotland. It is hosted jointly by the University of Glasgow and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, in association with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Founded in 1874, the Royal Musical Association is the second oldest learned musical society in the world.

An exciting programme explores the boundaries between research and practice, the academy and the profession, music and other disciplines with contributions from UK and international speakers and musicians.

Selected sessions and concerts are open free of charge to the public and promise vigorous topical debate on the arts, live music and the best of international scholarship. These take place in the University Concert Hall as follows:

Friday 29th 11-12: The Cramb Lecture is given by Leo Treitler (USA) 'The Historical Representation of Music: History in the Art, Art in the History'

Friday 29th 1.10-2.00: New trumpet music from staff and postgraduate students of the RSAMD National Centre for Research in the Performing Arts with Principal and trumpeter extraordinaire John Wallace

Friday 29th 7.30-9.30: Haydn Trio Eisenstadt make their debut UK appearance, with Scottish singers Lorna Anderson and Jamie MacDougall, in a programme marking the first modern publication of Haydn's collected Scottish and Welsh airs, edited by Marjorie Rycroft of the University of Glasgow Music Department (supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum and the Ferguson Bequest)

Saturday 30th from 4-5.30: panel discussion on state support for the arts. Distinguished panellists Georgina Born (Cambridge University), Simon Crookall (Chief Executive, RSNO), Graham Berry (Director, Scottish Arts Council), Simon Frith (Stirling University), Michael Russell (MSP) are chaired by John McCormick (Controller, BBC Scotland). Questions from the floor included in what promises to be a lively session.

The conference serves to launch a revitalized Royal Musical Association Scottish Chapter whose activities, initially at Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow, range from lectures and seminars to one-day colloquia and more extended conferences on a variety of themes.

For more information, contact Warwick Edwards (0141-330 5288) or Irene Cameron (0141-270 8310) or see 38th Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association

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For more information, contact Warwick Edwards (0141-330 5288) or Irene Cameron (0141-270 8310) or see 38th Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association

First published: 25 November 2002