MOLA  2006  CONFERENCE  SCHEDULE  (provisional)

TWENTY-FOURTH  ANNUAL  CONFERENCE

March 30 - April 4, 2006

CREDIT SUISSE FORUM - St. Peter, Zürich

 

Venue, equipment and break refreshments are sponsored by Credit Suisse. All transports are sponsored by Mercedes-Benz Automobil AG.

 

Thursday, March 30

 

09:30 - 17:00       Conference registration  (Tonhalle Entrance Hall)

 

10:00 - 11:00    Voluntary event at Tonhalle: Concert for school children

12:15                    Voluntary event at Tonhalle: Chamber Music Lunch (Mahler/Stein: Symphony no. 4)

                                   

                                    Lunch on your own

 

14:00 - 16:00       City Tour

 

Afterwards             Travel to Winterthur

 

17:30 - 19:00       Visit Archives Musikkollegium Winterthur at Stadtbibliothek Winterthur followed by

                                    Apéritif, sponsored by Musikkollegium Winterthur

 

19:45 -                    Concert Musikkollegium Winterthur

                                    Jac van Steen, Conductor

                                    Schubert plus (Franz Schubert, Aribert Reimann, Tristan Keuris)

 

20:00 -                    Welcome Reception (Hotel Novotel, Zürich)

 

Friday, March 31

 

                                    Committee meetings during the day

 

08:00 -                    Conference Registration continues (Forum St. Peter)

                                   

09:00 - 09:15       Official Welcome

                                    Representatives of Tonhalle, David Zinman

 

09:15 - 10:45       Contemporary Swiss Composers

                                    Dr. Roman Brotbeck, Musicologist, Director of the Music Department of  the University

                                    of Arts Berne

 

10:45 - 11:15       Break

 

11:15 - 12:15       Discussion

                                    Heinz Holliger, Beat Furrer, Dr. Roman Brotbeck

 

12:30 - 14:00       Official Lunch Reception (Town Hall), sponsored by Town and Canton of Zürich

 

14:15 - 15:45       Breakout Sessions

                                      Sound preservation at the Swiss National Sound Archive

                                      Music Notation Software: Sibelius and Finale

                                      Music Library Information Systems: OPAS and Impresario

                                      Cultural Differences in Libraries

15:45 - 16:30         Introduction to MOLA

15:30 - 16:30         Library Binding Systems in the Tonhalle Library

 

16:30 - 18:00       Tour of the Hall and Open Reception at Tonhalle Library sponsored by

                                    the Tonhalle-Gesellschaft

 

17:30 - 18:15       Tour at the Opera House Zürich followed by

18:15                        Apéritif sponsored by the Zürich Opera

19:00                        Performance at the Opera House Zürich

                                    Donizetti, La Favorite (Orchestra of the Opera Zürich, Minkowski, Kasarova, Sartori,

                                    Gilfry, Colombara)

                                   

                                    [Board Meeting]

 

Saturday, April 1

                                   

07:30                        [Board Meeting]

 

09:00 - 12:00       Business Meeting (Closed Session - for MOLA members only) (including break)

 

12:00 - 13:30       Lunch on your own

                                    [New Board Meeting]

 

13:30 - 15:00       Breakout Sessions

                                      Computer engraved material from manuscripts

                                      Music Notation Software: Sibelius and Finale

                                      Editions (Urtext, kritische Ausgabe etc.)

                                      Cultural Differences in Libraries

                                      OPAS Training

 

Afterwards             Travel to Luzern

 

17:00 - 18:00       Tour of the Hall (KKL Luzern) followed by

                                    Apéritif, sponsored by Lucerne Festival

18:30 -                    Concert Lucerne Festival Easter

                                    Concentus musicus Wien, Nicolaus Harnoncourt

                                    Mozart, Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots

 

                                    Alternatively: Performance at Opera House Zürich

                                    Ballet 3: Orchestra of the Opera Zürich, Peter Feranec, Alexej Botvinov

                                    (Cage/Webern/Ligeti/Schostakowitsch/Strawinsky//Kylián/Wheeldon/

                                    Spoerli/Balanchine)

                                   

Sunday, April 2

 

09:00 - 12:00       Copyright in Switzerland, EU and USA (including break)

                                    Andreas Wegelin, SUISA (Swiss Copyright Society)/

                                    James M. Kendrick, Brown Rysman Millstein Felder& Steiner LLP/

                                    NN (representative from an EU Country)/Thomas Trapp (Breitkopf&Härtel)

                                    Moderation: Larry Tarlow, New York Philharmonic

 

10:45 -                    Voluntary event at the Tonhalle: Recital Andras Schiff, Beethoven: Sonatas no. 22 - 26

 

12:00 - 13:30       Lunch on your own

 

13:30 - 14:30       A conversation with David Zinman

                                    Chandler Cudlipp, former Artistic Administrator of the Tonhalle,

                                    Managing Director of the Zürcher Kammerorchester

 

14:30 - 14:45       Break

                             

14:45 - 16:00       MOLA as an International Organisation

                                    Looking ahead to Chicago and MOLA's 25th anniversary

                                   

17:30                        Group Photo

                                   

18:30                        Apéritif sponsored by Hotel Storchen, Zürich

19:30                        Banquet (Hotel Storchen, Zürich)

 

Monday, April 3

 

9:00 - 12:00          (European) Publishers and MOLA (including break)

                                    Douglas Woodfull-Harris (Bärenreiter)/Miroslav Srnka (Bärenreiter Prag)/

                                    Christian Rudolf Riedel (Breitkopf&Härtel)/Nicholas Riddle (Edition Peters)/

                                    Heinz Stolba (Universal Edition)/Reinhold Quandt or Christiano Ostinelli (BMG Ricordi)/

                                    NN (Representatives of  other Publishers)

                                    Moderation: Richard Payne, London Philharmonic Orchestra

 

12:00 - 13:30       Stand-up Buffet at St. Peter-Forum, sponsored by Bärenreiter

 

Afternoon:               Excursions to

                                      Hug publishers, Zürich

                                      Music Department of Central Library Zürich

                                      Chocolate factory: Aeschbach Chocolatier, Cham

                                   

19:30 -                    Dress Rehearsal Tonhalle Orchestra

                                    David Zinman, Conductor/Birgit Remmert, Alto/

                                    Schweizer Kammerchor/Zürcher Sängerknaben

                                    Mahler: Symphony  no. 3  d minor

 

                                    Alternatively: Recital Andreas Staier in Luzern (KKL), Mozart on Hammerflügel

 

Tuesday, April 4

 

9:00 - 10:30          Future Concert Programming (traditional vs. pops)

                                    David Gruender (Indianapolis Symphony), Jari Eskola (Gothenburg Symphony),

                                    Trygve Nordwall, Executive Director of the Tonhalle Society/

                                    Frank Sanderell, Tonhalle Orchestra/NN (Pops specialist?/Conductor?)             

                                   

10:30 - 10:45       Break

 

10:45 - 12:15       Photoshop software and other Hi-Tech Skills in the library

                                    Michel Léonard, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal

 

12:15 - 12:30       Conference wrap-up and Adjournment

 

19:30 -                    Concert Tonhalle-Orchestra Zurich

                                    David Zinman, Conductor/Birgit Remmert, Alto/

                                    Schweizer Kammerchor/Zürcher Sängerknaben

                                    Mahler: Symphony  no. 3  d minor