The music of Joseph Haydn is being featured throughout 2014-2015 as part of a campus-wide project on Patronage and Enlightenment. Stanford Live, Music at Stanford, and the Stanford Arts Institute are collaborating with other Stanford partners to explore the culture of the late eighteenth century, with a particular focus on the shifting landscape of support for the arts during the Enlightenment.
The year-long series of concerts will afford the opportunity to hear a broad selection of Haydn’s music, from large-scale choral and orchestral works to genre-defining string quartets and other chamber music. There will also be classes, symposia and exhibitions addressing different aspects of the overarching theme, including plans for a program organized by the Stanford Humanities Center on patronage in the modern era.
Exhibitions
Cantor Arts Center
Shop, Gallery, Studio: The Art World in the 17th and 18th Centuries
October 15, 2014 – March 16, 2015
Cantor Arts Center, Gallery for Early European Art, 1500-1800
During the 17th and 18th centuries, more European artists chose as their subject matter the spaces in which art was made, shown, bought, and sold. The 15 prints and drawings in this focused exhibition depict sites—some real and some more imaginary—where people came together to view art and discuss its social relevance. The images address the ways in which commercial forces and new exhibition venues were rapidly changing the art world. This installation also examines the ways in which the identities of the professional artist and the serious connoisseur manifest within these works.
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Daumier on Art and the Theatre
October 15, 2014 – March 16, 2015
Cantor Arts Center, Mondavi Family Gallery
After 1840, Honoré Daumier (France, 1808–1879) made numerous prints for the popular press that dealt with art theory, the public reception of sculpture and painting, and the performing arts. With sharp wit and a keen understanding of the complexities of modern life, Daumier turned his critical eye on the artists, musicians, dancers, and singers in the spotlight, as well as their audience. The resulting images insightfully point out some of the issues related to class and culture that came to light at Parisian art venues. This installation contains 19 prints from the Cantor Arts Center collection.
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Bravo!: Music and Theater in Enlightenment Europe
March 25, 2015– August 17, 2015
Gallery for Early European Art, Cantor Arts Center
The 16 prints and drawings included in this focused exhibition explore the realms of music and drama during the long 18th century. European performance venues were popular social spaces, where people of all classes gathered to see and be seen. A concert or play could ignite debate about the role of art in everyday life, or provide the setting for drama to transpire on and off the stage. This installation complements the musical and interdisciplinary academic programs happening at Stanford in 2015 celebrating composer Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) and musical patronage during the Enlightenment. All works on view are drawn from the Cantor’s permanent collection.
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The Music Library
The Music Library is making available freely accessible large-format digital images of Haydn manuscripts and important first and early editions of Haydn’s works held in the Memorial Library of Music. Blog posts highlighting each work are being published on the Music Library website (http://library.stanford.edu/music), and has been gathered together in a summary post (Rare Haydn materials in the Stanford Libraries: a summary). Additional new acquisitions are also listed.
Stanford Undergraduate and Continuing Education Courses
Fall Quarter
Seminar led by Tom Grey (Department of Music). Music of the Classical Period: Franz Joseph Haydn (Course #: MUSIC 143J & 243J)
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Winter Quarter
Freshman seminar (Course #: Music 39N) on “The Classical String Quartet: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert” (S. Hinton and SLSQ)
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MOOC online course through the Office of the Vice Provost for Online Learning (VPOL). “Defining the String Quartet: The Magic of Four” [on Haydn’s op. 20, no. 5] in connection with SLSQ’s recording of Haydn’s Op. 20. (S. Hinton and SLSQ)
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Talk by James Johnson (Boston University) for the Seminar on Enlightenment and Revolution (February). Johnson is also a participant at the two-day conference, February 13-14 (see the program here).
Spring Quarter
Continuing Studies course (Joseph Haydn: Music of the Enlightenment)
Catalogue description:
This course, which forms part of a yearlong campus-wide celebration of the music of Joseph Haydn, will examine in detail a selection of Haydn’s compositions in a variety of genres and, at the same time, explore his role as a key figure of the musical Enlightenment.
Describing his early career as a composer at the Austro-Hungarian court of Prince Esterházy, Haydn said that he was “isolated from the world” and had therefore “to become original.” Such was his originality as well as his productivity that he soon earned the reputation as the father of the two principal genres of classical instrumental music: the symphony and string quartet. His reputation rested not only on the quality of the works themselves but also on the fact that he succeeded in breaking away from his isolation at court to become a celebrated figure in the emerging market place of music, both on the Continent and in England.
Course coordinator Stephen Hinton will be joined by members of the St. Lawrence String Quartet, who will perform and analyze several of Haydn’s string quartets, and by other colleagues [Grey, Mahrt and Sano] from the Department of Music, who will discuss symphonies and choral works.
Dates: April 8, 15, 22, 29, May 6, May 13
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Concerts
Full list of concerts organized by Stanford Live and the Music Department with Haydn on Program, including:
Spring 2014
May 24 (Saturday), BCH, 7:30pm
Stanford University Singers and Memorial Church Choir
Robert Huw Morgan, conductor
Haydn: The Creation, Hob. XXI:2
Preconcert talk at 7:00pm (Stephen Hinton)
Fall 2014
October 9 (Thursday), BCH, 7:30pm
Philharmonia Baroque
Symphony No. 67 in F Major
October 19 (Sunday), BCH, 2:30pm
St. Lawrence String Quartet
String Quartet in D Minor, op. 9/4
Winter 2014
January 18 (Sunday), BCH, 7:00pm
St. Lawrence String Quartet
String Quartet in E major, Op. 20 no. 2
February 10 (Tuesday), Braun Rehearsal Hall, 7:30pm
London Soirée in Honour of Dr Haydn
Guest: Kimberly Johnson, soprano
George Barth, pianoforte
Greer Ellison, traverso
Stephen Harrison, violoncello
Anthony Martin, violin
A quartet made up of Stanford Music faculty is joined by Kimberly Johnson, soprano, and special guest narrators for this program of music by Haydn and spoken word in the spirit of an 18th-century salon.
February 13 (Friday), BCH, 7:30pm
St. Lawrence String Quartet
Guest: Tara Helen O’Connor, flute
Haydn: Trio for Flute, Violin and Cello in G major, Hob. IV:3 (“London”)
Haydn: String Quartet in C Major, Op. 76, No. 3 (“Emperor”)
Haydn: Symphony No. 102 in Bb major (reduction)
February 14 (Saturday), BCH, 7:30pm
Stanford Chamber Chorale/ St. Lawrence String Quartet /Chamber Strings
Stephen M. Sano, conductor
Haydn: Missa in Angustiis (“Nelson Mass”), Hob. XXII:11
Stanford Philharmonia Orchestra
Jindong Cai, conductor
Haydn: Symphony No. 1 in D major, Hob. I:1
Symphony No. 44 in E minor (“Mourning”) Hob. I:44
February 15 (Sunday), BCH, 2:30pm
Stanford Chamber Chorale/ Saint Lawrence String Quartet /Chamber Strings
Stephen M. Sano, conductor
Haydn: Missa in Angustiis (“Nelson Mass”), Hob. XXII:11
Stanford Philharmonia Orchestra
Jindong Cai, conductor
Haydn: Symphony No. 104 in D major (“London”), Hob. I:104
Haydn: Symphony No. 1 in D major, Hob. I:1
March 19 (Thursday) BCH, 7:30pm
San Francisco Symphony
Trumpet Concerto
Symphony No. 90 in C Major
Spring Quarter
April 3 (Friday), MemChu, 5:00pm
St. Lawrence String Quartet
Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross
April 10 (Friday), BCH, 7:30pm
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Symphony No. 49 in F Minor
April 12 (Sunday), BCH, 7:30pm
St. Lawrence String Quartet
String Quartet No.5 in E-flat Major, op.1/0
String Quartet in E-flat Major, op. 33/2
May 15 (Friday), MemChu 7:30pm
Stanford Symphonic Chorus
Stephen M. Sano, conductor
Grace An, ‘cello
Haydn: Overture to Armida, Hob. XXVIII:12
Haydn: Cello Concerto in C major, Hob. VIIb/1
Haydn: Missa in tempore belli (“Mass in Time of War”), Hob. XXII:9
May 16 (Saturday), MemChu 7:30pm
Stanford Symphonic Chorus
Stephen M. Sano, conductor
Grace An, ‘cello
Haydn: Overture to Armida, Hob. XXVIII:12
Haydn: Cello Concerto in C major, Hob. VIIb/1
Haydn: Missa in tempore belli (“Mass in Time of War”), Hob. XXII:9
May 26 (Tuesday), BCH 7:30pm
Stanford University Singers
Robert Huw Morgan, conductor
Haydn: Harmoniemesse, Hob. XXII:14
Other works TBA
Preconcert talk: Stephen Hinton
June 3 (Wednesday), MemChu 7:30pm
Stanford Early Music Singers
William Mahrt, conductor
Haydn: Missa sancti Bernardi von Offida (“Heiligmesse”), Hob. XXII:10
Other works TBA
