International Musicological Symposium

Monday, 20 April, Knights’ Hall, Križanke

At 9.00 am
Welcome speeches:
Ingrid Kovač Brus (Managing Editor, Radio Slovenia Third Channel - ARS)
Jernej Weiss (Head of the Musicological Symposium)

At 9.15−9.45 am
Keynote lecture:
Helmut Loos (Leipzig): Die technischen Medien als Revolution der Musikwelt. Wie Schallaufzeichnung und Rundfunk alles änderten

At 9.45−10.35 am
Chairman: Hartmut Krones
Lidiya Melnik (Lviv): Zwischen Propaganda und Widerstand: Hundert Jahre Musik im Ukrainischen Radio
Luba Kyjanovska (Lviv): Radio music programs as an instrument of socio-political influence (on the example of the Lviv radio station)

At 10.50−12.15 am
Chairman: Chris Marshall
Hartmut Krones (Vienna): Der Österreichische Rundfunk als Kulturinstitution
Lubomír Spurný (Brno): Music for the Microphone: Radio Operas and Compositions in Interwar Czechoslovakia
Wolfgang Marx (Dublin): Classical Music and Radio Broadcasting in Ireland

At 2.15−3.30 pm
Chairman: Luisa Antoni
Ingeborg Zechner (Graz): From Hollywood to Symphony: Franz Waxman and the Role of Radio in Classical Music
Tatjana Čunko (Zagreb): Radio connections between Zagreb and Ljubljana - from the first live broadcasts (1926-1929) to Uroš Lajovic, chief conductor of the Zagreb Symphonists of the Zagreb Radio and Television (1979-1981)
Lucija Konfic (Zagreb): Božidar Mohaček as a versatile Radio Professional

At 3.45−5.00 pm
Chairman: Tjaša Ribizel Popič
Marija M. Karan (Belgrade): From traditional broadcasting to digital platforms: the position of art music on Public Service Radio in Slovenia and Serbia
Maja Vaslijević (Belgrade): Music Radio History: From the Sensation of Radiophony to Remediation and Convergence in the 21^st Century

Tuesday, 21 April, Julij Betetto Hall, Academy of Music of the University of Ljubljana

At 9.00−9.45 am
Keynote lecture:
Chris Marshall (Birmingham): Social upheaval and classical music broadcasting at the BBC: Nina Šenk Baca: a Slovene commission for the 2018 BBC Proms

At 9.45−11.00 am
Chairman: Darja Koter
Stane Kocutar (Maribor): Marij Osana (1880– 1958) – a pioneer of Slovene radio broadcasting and the technical conditions of early live radio transmissions from remote locations
Veronika Šarec (Ljubljana): Radio Ljubljana’s educational broadcasting before the Second World War: caught between the enthusiasm of its programme creators and the limited opportunities for implementation
Jernej Weiss (Ljubljana−Maribor): Expressions of Slovene patriotism: recordings of choral concerts by the Nightingale of Trbovlje children’s choir in 1938 and the Academic Choir in 1941

At 11.30−12.45 am 
Chairman: Jernej Weiss
Darja Koter (Ljubljana): Drago Mario Šijanec – acclaimed but later deposed conductor of the Ljubljana Radio Orchestra
Tina Bohak Adam (Ljubljana): The recorded legacy of two generations: the bass Julij Betetto and his pupil, the contralto Marija Bitenc Samec, in the radio archives of RTV Slovenia
Anja Ivec (Maribor): The contribution of Ljubljana’s workers’ choral and musical societies to Radio Ljubljana’s programming between the wars.

At 3.00−3.50 pm
Chairman: Tina Bohak Adam
Tjaša Ribizel Popič (Ljubljana): The repertoire of Radio Ljubljana in the first decade after the war
Luisa Antoni (Trieste): Waves and pixels: the century-long transition of cross-border media from radio to the digital age

Head of the International Musicological Symposium: dr. Jernej Weiss