Frank Corcoran

irish composer

FRANK CORCORAN GUEST PROFESSOR AT THE 2005 TRIESTE JOYCE SUMMER SCHOOL

The Ninth Annual

Trieste Joyce School

26 June – 2 July 2005

University of Trieste

Director: Professor Renzo S. Crivelli

Vice-Director: Dr John McCourt

Description of Events

The Ninth edition of the Trieste Joyce School will take place from 26 June to 2 July 2005. Following the tradition established in previous years, this year’s school hopes to satisfy the needs both of seasoned Joyceans and of newcomers to the world of Joyce studies. The School draws inspiration from Trieste itself – its history, its culture, its architecture, its institutions – and leaves participants with a sense of why Joyce came to describe the city as his “second country”.

The school opens on the evening of Sunday 26 June in the auditorium of the Galleria d’Arte moderna “Revoltella” and concludes with a farewell dinner the following Saturday. The morning lectures will see a selection of the world’s finest literary scholars address various aspects of Joyce’s life and works through a wide range of critical approaches. These lectures are accompanied by week-long afternoon seminars on Dubliners (Michael Patrick Gillespie), Ulysses (Fritz Senn), Finnegans Wake (Ron Ewart), and Joyce and Trieste (Erik Schneider). A special seminar called “Making Manuscripts Speak” on genetic approaches to Joyce will be jointly run by Geert Lernout and Michael Groden. A walking tour of Joyce’s Trieste is also arranged as well as a visit to the Trieste Joyce Museum. Among the highlights of this year’s social and cultural programme are readings by acclaimed Irish poet and critic, Bernard O’Donoghue, Joyce and Music – an illustrated lecture by Irish composer and music-professor, Frank Corcoran, a concert for violin and piano ((Tad Lauer and Peter Solomon featuring music by Ferrucio Busoni, Othmar Schoeck, and Luciano Berio. There will also be a visit to an Osmiza in the Triestine Carso, an evening of music and song, and an afternoon on the beach to enjoy what Joyce called “that damn silly sun that turns men into butter”!

Speakers

Silvia Albertazzi

Università di Bologna

Frank Corcoran

Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst

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