“Syllables of Velvet, Sentences of Plush”: American Art Song as Praxis. Lecture by Dr. Nicole Panizza. ICAMus-University of Florence Doctoral School, May 18, 2022.
Dr. Nicole Panizza (Coventry University, UK, and ICAMus Advisory Board) is a performer and a scholar specializing in the American Art Song.
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.
In the photo above: the SAGAS Department (Storia, Archeologia, Geografia, Arte e Spettacolo) of the University of Florence, at whose Doctoral School-Music and Performing Arts Dr. Panizza taught her Seminar “Syllables of Velvet, Sentences of Plush”: American Art Song as Praxis on May 18, 2022.
READ AND DOWNLOAD DR. NICOLE PANIZZA’S LECTURE “SYLLABLES OF VELVET, SENTENCES OF PLUSH”: AMERICAN ART SONG AS PRAXIS, A COLLABORATION OF ICAMus WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE, DIPARTIMENTO SAGAS - DOCTORAL SCHOOL: COMPLETE LECTURE, AND DR. PANIZZA'S INTRODUCTION TO THE MAY 18, 2022 DOCTORAL SEMINAR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE:
Read & download: Dr. Nicole Panizza - “Syllables of Velvet, Sentences of Plush” - Lecture (PDF).
Read & download: Dr. Nicole Panizza - “Syllables of Velvet, Sentences of Plush” - Introduction (PDF).
In the photo above: 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.
Please visit Dr. Nicole Panizza’s Website.
In the image above: Portrait of Florence Price Looking to the Side. Photographic portrait of African American composer Florence Price (1887-1953) by G. Nelidoff, Chicago; University of Arkansas Libraries Special Collections.
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: William John Hennessy (1839-1917). An Old Song (1874); watercolor, gum arabic, and gouache on off-white wove paper; The American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
