Syracuse University Humanities Center
Syracuse International Film Festival
Forum on Music and Sound in Film
14 -17 October, 2009

Unless otherwise indicated, all Forum events will be held in the Comstock rooms on the second floor of the Sheraton Syracuse University Hotel & Conference Center

Wednesday, 14 October

8:00 P.M., Hergenhan                 Screening of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis with performance of a newly composed score for the film by Martin Matalon

Thursday, 15 October

7:30-8:30 P.M., Hergenhan        Syracuse Symposium Lecture: Richard Dyer (King’s College, London), Darken Our Lightness: The Italian Horror Film

Friday, 16 October

9:30-12:00, Humanities Center Mini-seminar with Richard Dyer.  Advance registration required

12:00-1:30                                   Lunch on own

1:30-3:00                                     Richard Dyer (King’s College, London), “The Place of Subjective Music.” 

                                                      Rachel Lewis (Cornell University), "(En)Gendering Displacement: Music, Film, and the Limits of Humanitarian Advocacy"

3:00-3:30                                     Coffee

3:30-5:00                                     Roundtable discussion with film sound designers Mirco Mencacci (Italy) and Doug Quin (Syracuse University), film music and sound scholar Rick Altman (University of Iowa), and a film music composer TBA

6:00                                              Banquet for Forum participants

7:45 and 10:00 
Regal Theaters,                            Film screenings
Shoppingtown Mall

Saturday, 17 October

9:30-10:00                                   Coffee and pastries

10:00-12:15                                 Kathryn Kalinak (University of Rhode Island), “Musical Accompaniment in the Silent Era: A Global Perspective”

                                                      Alessandra Campana (Tufts University), "Scoring a female Faust: Mascagni composes for Lyda Borelli
(1914)"

                                                      Melina Esse (Eastman School of Music), "Don't Look Now: Opera, Liveness, and the Televisual"

12:15-2:15                                   Lunch on own

2:15-3:45                                     Jeff Smith (University of Wisconsin, Madison), "What Can Cue Sheets Tell Us about Film Music of the 1930s?"

                                                      David Neumeyer (University of Texas at Austin), “Film Score and Compositional Development, with Franz Waxman as Case Study”

3:45-4:15                                     Coffee

4:15-5:45                                     Gayle Sherwood Magee (University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign), "Robert Altman and the New Hollywood Musical."

                                                      Krin Gabbard (Stony Brook University), “The Vanishing Love Song in Film Noir”

5:45                                              Dining on own

7:00 – Persian Terrace: Hotel Syracuse :         Film screening           of La Traviata
9:30 – Persian Terrace: Syracuse International Film Festival Fundraiser: music and dancing with Familia De La Salsa