AMSGNY Announcements

A Two Day Symposium

Friday, February 6, 2009
11:00 a.m.–4:45 p.m.
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York
Free with Museum admission;
reservations and tickets are not required.
For more information, please email
lectures@metmuseum.org, consult the Met’s
online Calendar at www.metmuseum.org,
or call (212) 396-5460.

11:00–11:15 a.m.
Opening Remarks
Lydia Goehr, Philosophy, Columbia University
Andrea Bayer, Department of European Paintings and
interim head of Education, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
The End of the Contest: On Philosophy, Painting, and
Photography in the History of Modernism
Arthur C. Danto, Philosophy, Columbia University
Introduced by Jonathan Gilmore, Philosophy,
Yale University
12:15–1:15 p.m.
Watteau and the Contest between Melpomene and Thalia
Georgia J. Cowart, Music, Case Western Reserve University
Introduced by Ellen Rosand, Music, Yale University
2:30–3:30 p.m.
King David’s Harp, Beckmesser’s Lute: Musical Instruments
and the Instrumentality of Painting
Lydia Goehr, Philosophy, Columbia University
Introduced by Christopher S. Wood, History of Art,
Yale University
3:30–4:30 p.m.
“Most musical of mourners, weep again!”
David Rosand, Art History, Columbia University
Introduced by Alexander Nagel, Art History,
New York University

Saturday, February 7, 2009
9:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.
Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America,
Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Avenue at 116th Street
New York
Free; for more information, please call (212) 854-3665.

9:30–10:30 a.m.
The Masked Singer: The Auditory Perception of
Beauty in Renaissance Italy
Giuseppe Gerbino, Music, Columbia University
Chair: Susan Boynton, Music, Columbia University
10:30–11:30 a.m.
Marsia’s Lament: Animating the Contest of
Marsyas and Apollo in Barberini Rome
Wendy Heller, Music, Princeton University
Chair: Christoph Menke, Philosophy,
Goethe Universität Frankfurt
12:00–1:00 p.m.
Athene and Marsyas: Two Bodies of Beauty and Music
Gertrud Koch, Film Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin
Chair: Gregg Horowitz, Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
2:00–3:00 p.m.
“Mi manca la voce”: Silent Music in Balzac’s Novellas
John T. Hamilton, Comparative Literature and German,
New York University
Chair: Walter Frisch, Music, Columbia University
3:00–4:00 p.m.
“The Natural Instrument of the Voice”: Apollo,
Marsyas, and Andrea Sacchi’s Portrait of the Soprano
Marc’Antonio Pasqualini
David E. Cohen, Music, Columbia University
Chair: Timothy Barringer, History of Art, Yale University
4:30–5:30 p.m.
Painted Sounds—Imaginary Music
(On Giorgione, Savoldo, and Caravaggio)
Klaus Krüger, Art History, Freie Universität, Berlin
Chair: Lydia Goehr, Philosophy, Columbia University
7:00 p.m. performance
J. S. Bach’s Cantata BWV 201
Geschwinde, ihr wirbelnden Winde.
(The Contest between Phoebus and Pan)
with singers and instrumentalists associated
with Columbia University.
Introduced by Elaine Sisman, Music, Columbia
University.
Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America,
Columbia University
1161 Amsterdam Avenue at 116th Street
New York
Entry to the concert is free for students with
Columbia University ID; otherwise $10 or donation.
Tickets are not required.