Wednesday, May 21

11–12 Welcome address (Agora) / Tuomas Auvinen, Dean of the Sibelius Academy

12–13 Keynote (Auditorium) / Celia Applegate: Affektenlehre: Johann Mattheson and the Origins of Musical Germany

13–14:30 Lunch break

14:30–16 Sessions 1

Session 1a (Auditorium) / Individuals Confronting the National / Chair: Derek Scott

Anne Sivuoja-Kauppala: Wäinö Sola's Artistic and Cultural Agendas in Creating La Juive in the Finnish National Opera (1925)

Helena Tyrväinen: Journalist and Diplomat Wentzel Hagelstam — Cosmopolitan Builder of Independent Finland's Musical Life and Agent of France's Artistic Expansion

Shay Loya: Liszt's Transcultural Composition in the Year of the Franco-Prussian Conflict

Session 1b (S3101) / Modernity Meets Nationalism / Chair: Heikki Uimonen

Celsa Alonso González: Zarzuelas, Revues, Operettas and Musical Comedy: New National Discourses and Paradigms of Modernity in Spain (1920–1950)

Kei Saito: Japanese Music Historiography as Conflict within Tradition

Tom Western: Fragmentation to Dissemination: Technology and Nation-Building in Postwar Europe

Session 1c (S7115) / Transfering Cultural Phenomena / Chair: Saijaleena Rantanen

Kate Guthrie: The Sleeping Beauty and National Ballet in Britain

Kati Kallio: The Local and Transnational Identifications of the Early Finnish Hymn Makers

Michael Spanu: A Short History of English-singing Popular Music in France

16–16:30 Coffee (Agora)

16:30–18 Panels 1

Panel 1a (Auditorium) / Constructing the Narratives of Jazz in Totalitarian Regimes / Chair: Lauri Väkevä

Pedro Cravinho: Jazz and Politics in Portugal during the Revolutionary Biennium (1974–1976)

Heli Reimann: End with Jazz: Public Narratives of jazz in Estonia during Late-Stalinism

Martin Lücke: Jazz in Nazi Germany: German vs. American Jazz – A Narrative Construction

Igor Pietraszewski: Jazz under Stalinism in Poland  cancelled

Panel 1b (S3101) / Reinventing National Musical Identities in the Twentieth Century / Discussant: Liisamaija Hautsalo

Jacopo Mazzeo: Shaping ‘Italian Music': Cosmopolitan Nationalism in Alfredo Casella

Xin Ying Ch'ng: What is an ‘English Voice'?: Alfred Deller and the English Musical Renaissance

Liisamaija Hautsalo: Response to the presentations

19:30 Symposium Dinner / Restaurant Töölönranta

Thursday, May 22

9:30–11 Sessions 2

Session 2a (Auditorium) / Macrohistorical Issues / Chair: Markus Mantere

Janis Kudins: The National Music History in the Global Context and Vice Versa. Some Still Topical Local Problems in the Latvian Music History Writing

Teresa Cascudo: Territory as a Key-Concept to Confront the National in the Musical Past

Alexa Woloshyn: Il y a un problème? Musique Acousmatique and Soundscape Composition within a Canadian Musical Historiography

Session 2b (S3101) / Constructions of National Identity I / Chair: Leena Unkari-Virtanen

Stuart Campbell: The Criterion of ‘Scottishness' in Music Historiography cancelled

Heidi Haapoja: The New Kalevalaic Rune Singing and the Language of Methodological Nationalism in the Finnish Media

Olli Heikkinen: Don't Forget the Music. Severin Sörensen's Town Orchestras

Session 2c: Cosmopolitanism (S7115) / Chair: Anne Sivuoja-Kauppala

Ulla-Britta Broman-Kananen: Constructing Differences and Defining Boundaries: French Grand Opera in Finnish and Swedish in Late 1870s Helsinki

Katherine Hambridge: ‘Sounds that Waft over Us from the Days of our Ancestors': Italian Opera and Nostalgia in Berlin, 1800–1815

Rachel Orzech: "A Universal Art, an Art for All": The Reception of Richard Wagner in Paris, 1933

11–12 Coffee (Agora)

12–13 Keynote (Auditorium) / Philip Bohlman: Indian Music before India

13–14:30 Lunch break

14:30–16 Sessions 3

Session 3a (S3101) / Constructions of National Identity II / Chair: Vesa Kurkela

Christina Linsenmeyer: French Nationalism, Nineteenth-Century Historicism, and the Cult of Stradivari

Peter Strauven: Nationalizing the Music: the 18th Century "Belgian Keyboard School" in Music Historiography

Steven Young: The French Organ Symphony: A Paradigm of anti-French Nationalism?

Session 3b (S7115) / Composers and Nationalism / Chair: Olli Heikkinen

Rutger Helmers: Musical Travels and Cosmopolitanism in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Western Musicians in St Petersburg (1835–1870)

John Nelson: Rimsky-Korsakov: A Significant Commentator on Russian National Identity

Florian Scheding: Strategies of Migration: Between Nationalist Nostalgia and Internationalist Heterotopia

16–16:30 Coffee (Agora)

16:30–18 Panels 2

Panel 2a (Auditorium) / Music History for the Nation, the People and the Shareholders: Metahistorical Inquiries into the Uses and Purposes of Music Historiography / Discussant: Janne Mäkelä.

Scheduling at this panel: presentations 15 mins + 5 mins q&a each. Discussant's comments 10 mins. General discussion 20 mins.

Antti-Ville Kärjä: The Prepositional Politics of Music Historiography

Anna-Elina Hintikka: Deconstructing "The People" of National Popular Music History

Juho Kaitajärvi-Tiekso: The National History of Music and International Music Industry: the Case of "The History of Finnish Music" Website

Janne Mäkelä: Response to the presentations

Panel 2 b (S3101) / Crossing European Borders from the East and the West: Boris Asafiev, Leonard Bernstein and Twentieth-Century Cultural Transfer / Discussant: Tomi Mäkelä

Jonathan Rosenberg: Border Crossings: Leonard Bernstein in Berlin

Elina Viljanen: From East to West and from West to East: Developing Soviet Music though Western Models

Tomi Mäkelä: Response to the presentations

Friday, May 23

9:30–11 Sessions 4

Session 4a (Auditorium) / Political Uses of Music History / Chair: Heidi Westerlund

Jelena Gligorijevic: Confronting the Dominant National Identity Narrative on ‘Two Serbias' in Post-Milošević Era: A Case Study of Serbia's Exit and Guča Trumpet Festivals

Elaine Kelly: Golden Ages and Cautionary Tales: Music History and National Identity in the German Democratic Republic

Melita Milin: Music Historiography, Nationalism, and Politics: Uneasy Relations

Session 4 b (S3101) / Musical Institutions Confronting the National / Chair: Ulla-Britta Broman-Kananen

James Andean: Nations, the Great Studios, and Other Electroacoustic Myths

Lauren Frankel: National Music After the National Romantics: Finnish Institutions as Agents of Cultural Construction

Lena van der Hoven: Constructing musical representations of Prussia: The Royal Opera House and Royal National Theatre in Berlin (1740–1797)

11–12 Coffee (Agora)

12–13 Keynote (Auditorium) / Tomi Mäkelä: Teaching Music Nationally: on the Configuration of Scandinavian, Nordic, and Local Images in the History of Music and Music Education

13–14:30 Lunch break

14:30–16 Discussion and Conclusion (Auditorium) / Discussant Philip Bohlman