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Sound in the Lands 09 - Schedule

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(Mennonite Music across Borders)
a Festival/Conference of Mennonites & Music

June 4 - 8, 2009

Conrad Grebel University College
University of Waterloo, Canada

Sound in the Lands Schedule

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Thursday, June 4
ongoing
1:00–4:30
Catching ‘the sweet though far off hymn’: An exhibit of music from the Mennonite Archives of Ontario
located in the exhibit cases off of the atrium
1:00–2:00 Arrival, Registration, pick up coffee
2:00–4:00 Workshop Session I
 Rubber Meeting the Road
Improvisations and Mennonite Music at the Crossroads 
Chapel (workshop involves live music; bring coffee into this workshop)

  • Bryan Moyer Suderman – “Community Supported Music: An Alternative Model for the Arts”  
  • Bush Wiebe – “Mennonite Roots Music – Becoming a ‘Mennist to Society’”
  • Trevor Bechtel – “Writing the Anabaptist Bestiary Project”
  • Frances Miller – “Approaches to Improvisation”
4:00 - 6:00

Mennofolk concerts

Great Hall
4:30 Lyle Friesen and Bob
Janzen
5:15 Anabaptist Beastiary
Project

Chapel
4:00 Todd Schiedel

4:45 Dale Nikkel

5:30 Spencer Cunningham
6:00–7:00   Dinner
7:00–12:00 

Mennofolk concerts

Great Hall

7:00 Chuckee and the Crawdaddies

7:45 Bush Wiebe

8:30 Rendezvous (Gundys & Schermbrucker)

9:15 Carol Ann Weaver, Rebecca Campbell, Thandeka Mabuza, Mageshen Naidoo, Prince Bulo, Arun Pal

10:00 BlankBlueSky

10:45 Moglee

Chapel

7:15 Annie James Project

8:00 Frances Miller

8:45 Andru Bemis

9:30 The Land

FRIDAY, June 5

ongoing
8:30–4:30
Catching ‘the sweet though far off hymn’: An exhibit of music from the Mennonite Archives of Ontario
located in the exhibit cases off of the atrium
8:30–10:30 

Conference Session I
Mennonite Worship Wars/Questions of Musical Genre in Mennonite Settings

  • Geraldine Balzer – “The Preservation of a Mennonite Hymn-Singing Tradition” 
  • Jonathan Dueck – “Those Mediated Mennonites: Church-Music Genres As Cosmopolitanism”
  • Sarah Kathleen Johnson  – “The Political Theology of Hymnal: A Worship Book”
  • Yi-Ting Huang ­–“Plain Living and Simple Deeds: The Role and Meaning  of a Music Education in the Old Order Amish Community”
  • Myron Sauder –“Mind the Slurs:  The Unusual Style of River Brethren Hymnody”
10:30–11:00 Coffee break
11:00–1:00 Conference Session II:
From Africa and the Middle East – Listening for Songs, Messages and Justice

  • Dorothy Jean Weaver – “Middle East Soundings:  Mennonite Sojourn, Musical Sustenance”
  • Alina Balzer-Peters –“Songs of Struggle – Anabaptists in the Apartheid?”
  • Jennifer Wiebe –  “Afrikaners, Mennonites, and Music of the Anti-Conscription”
  • Cari Friesen – “Processes of Contextualization: Mennonite Music in Burkina Faso”
  • James Kraybill –  “‘I Want to Join Your Community, But Do I Have To Learn your Music?’ ­– Six Stages of Music Development in Churches of the Global South”
1:00–2:00 Lunch
2:00–2:30    Workshop Session II

Rockway Choir with Ann Schultz – “Allowing Students to Discover New Sound in Their Lands”

2:30–4:30   Conference Session III:
Mennonite Music Makers – Creating Mennonite Musical Communities and Texts

  • Judith Klassen – “‘Wie han seeja je’daunst!’ (‘We Really Danced!’) – Remembering Music and Dance in Mennonite Mexico”
  • Peter Letkemann – “Music, Suffering, and Mennonite Idenity in Soviet Society -- Continuity and Discontinuity, 1917-1945”
  • John Horst –  “The Role of Music in the Mennonite Hour Broadcast”
  • Wendy Chappell-Dick – “Exploring the Mennofolk Festivals Using the Lens of Metaphor”
  • Doreen Klassen – “‘I Guess We Should Use Some Drums’ – Negotiating Applied Ethnomusicology In An Intercultural Mennonite Context”
5:00–6:30 Keynote Event (followed by punch reception)

  • Performance: Irmgard Baerg and Bonnie Loewen –“Habits of the Hands -– Mennonite Dialogues of Poet and Pianist”
  • Keynote address: Alice Parker – “The Search for Language:  Words and Music in the Coming Years”
6:30–8:00 Dinner
8:00–10:00 Chamber Music Concert (Chapel)
Music by Joanne Bender, Janet Peachey, Larry Warkentin, John Horst, Larry Nickel, Leonard Enns, Carol Ann Weaver
10:00–11:30 Improv, Jazz, Jam, TBA – Chapel
Frances Miller, Mark Hartman, Mageshen Naidoo, Prince Bulo, others – improv session

SATURDAY, June 6

8:30–10:15 Conference Session IV – 
Mennonite Composers Searching for Voice and Venue in a Fractured World

  • Stephanie Martin – “High Church Liturgy and Low Church Mennonite Song – Toward Creating Choral Responses”
  • Janet Peachey – “Composing for Choir/Rediscovering Musical Roots – Words from a Mennonite Composer”
  • Larry Warkentin – “Art or Popular Music? – Finding Appropriate Responses to our Fractured World”
  • Larry Nickel – “Requiem for Peace – Composing a Multi-Cultural Work”
10:15–10:45 Coffee break
10:45–12:30 Conference Session V
Composition Across The Arts – Mennonite Composers, Poets and Painters

  • Jon Liechty – “‘Plum Point Fantasy’ as a Way of Hearing the World – Words from a Composer”
  • Magdalene Redekop – “Haunted by Hymns: Music in ‘Mennonite’ Poetry” 
  • Jeff Gundy – “Muse/Poetry/Music”
  • Carol Ann Weaver with Rebecca Campbell – “Those Crazy Stories Becoming Song”
12:30–1:30  Lunch
1:30–4:00 Conference Session VI
Direct from Cuba and Africa – International Music and Worship         Styles Today  (including live music)

  • Amós Lópas – “Cuban and Latin American Church Music ­– Insights from a Troubadour”
  • Maurice Mondengo –  “Understanding African Diversities and Daring to Create Music in Response to an African World”
  • Mageshen Naidoo – “When Jazz Reaches the Church – South Africa Worship Styles and the Role of the Contemporary Musician”
  • Prince Bulo – “Notes from a Bassist: Music in Contemporary African Worship Settings”
  • Thandeka Mabuza - "From Zulu to Mennonite -- A Cappella Township Hymns In Transit"                       
4:00–4:30     Coffee  Break
4:30–6:00     Matinee Mini Concerts – Chapel

Mini-Concert 1
Karin Redekopp Edwards with Mark Edwards –
“Two Pianos - Two Pianists – A Medium for Mennonite ‘Messages’”

Mini-Concert 2
Dennis Bender, bass – “Music of the Swiss and Russian Mennonite Experience”

Mini-Concert 3
Ben Bolt-Martin, cello – "From Tiegenhagen with Hope" -- Music of Leonard Enns
6:30–8:15   Conference Banquet
8:30–10:30  World Music Collaborative Concert (Great Hall)
Music byAmos Lopez, Maurice Mondengo, Mageshen Naidoo, Prince Bulo, Carol Ann Weaver, others

SUNDAY, June 7

10:00–12:00 Hymns and Words – Singing Session,
Detweiler Meeting House,  Roseville, ON

  • Hymns – Harmonia Sacra and more – Mary Oyer and other song leaders
  • Phil Stoltzfus –  “Toward a Theology of Anabaptist-Mennonite Musical Sensibilities”
  • Cheryl Denise - "Toil and Grace" -- poetic readings
12:30–2:00 Lunch
2:00–4:30 Music from Around the World Singing Session -
choral, gospel, contemporary, congregational singing, with Soul Influence, Thandeka Mabuza, Mageshen Naidoo, Prince Bulo, Maurice Mondengo, others  

  • Marilyn Hauser-Hamm – “Global Singing in a Church-wide Experience” (with group singing)
  • Capstone Address:  Mary Oyer – “International Mennonite Music-Making as Cross-Cultural Experience” (with group singing)
5:00–6:00     Documentary DVD – The Ben Horch Story by Peter Letkemann
6:00–7:30 Dinner (Faspa)
8:00–10:00 Concert of Choral Music (First United, Waterloo) –
with Menno Singers, Rockway Collegiate Choir, Soul Influence (Choral Group from Zimbabwe); choral commissions by Alice Parker, Janet Peachey, Jeff Enns, and other choral works

Reception following the concert.

MONDAY, June 8
8:00 Breakfast and musical farewell

 

Note: Conference sessions include papers/presentations on Mennonite music and international woship styles.  Daily workshops deal with aspects of live music, world music, music production, and more.