“Syllables of Velvet, Sentences of Plush”: American Art Song as Praxis. Lecture by Dr. Nicole Panizza Accessible in In-Depth Section.
Dr. Panizza’s Doctoral Seminar “Syllables of Velvet, Sentences of Plush”: American Art Song as Praxis was a collaboration of ICAMus with The University of Florence Dipartimento SAGAS - Doctoral School. Together with her Introduction to the May 18, 2022 workshop, Dr. Panizza’s presentation is published (PDF) as part of her seminar with the doctoral students. In English, with illustrations including original texts & documents, and visual art.
The title of this doctoral seminar includes a quotation from a letter that Emily Dickinson wrote to her cousin Eudocia Flynt. It is also the title of a song cycle (1989) by American composer Juliana Hall, who is prominent in Dr. Panizza’s research and performance, and in the ICAMus ongoing project on the American Art Song. Dr. Panizza’s lecture focused on performing the American Art Song repertoire as a creative process, inseparable from that of composition.
Please read, view and download the lecture HERE.
In the image above: Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791). My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free (1759). Text by Thomas Parnell (1679-1718); manuscript; The Library of Congress Music Division.
Dr. Nicole Panizza (Coventry University, UK, and ICAMus Advisory Board) is a performer and a scholar specializing in the American Art Song.
Please visit Dr. Nicole Panizza’s Website.
In the photo below: Dr. Nicole Panizza presenting on “Syllables of Velvet, Sentences of Plush”: American Art Song as Praxis at the University of Florence Dipartimento SAGAS - Doctoral School on May 18, 2022.
Learn more about the May 18, 2022 ICAMus Doctoral Seminar of Dr. Nicole Panizza at the University of Florence HERE.
Learn more about the May 16-18, 2022 ICAMus events in Florence, The American Art Song: Poets and Composers from the United States, a project directed by Aloma Bardi and Nicole Panizza HERE.
In the image below: Alice Pike Barney (1857-1931). A Song, ca. 1895; oil on canvas; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Gift of Laura Dreyfus Barney and Natalie Clifford Barney in memory of their mother, Alice Pike Barney.
