Programme - Music - National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Women and Music in Ireland Conference
The Music Department, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
17 April 2010
In association with The Society for Musicology in Ireland and An Foras Feasa
9.00am: Registration (The Music Department)
9.45am: Welcome (Bewerunge Room)
Programme
10.00-11.30am: Session 1
Session 1: Irish Women and Music in Europe. (Bewerunge Room)
Chair: Professor Harry White (University College, Dublin)
Collette Moloney (Waterford Institute of Technology)
Recording and Rediscovering: The Contribution of the Milligan Sisters to Irish
Music.
Dr. Margarethe Engelhardt-Krajanek (Independent Scholar)
A life with the Violin: Mary Dickinson-Auner.
Axel Klein (Independent Scholar)
Adela Maddison (c. 1862-1929) and the difficultly of defining an Irish Composer.
11.30-12.00: Tea/coffee
12.00-1.30: Session 2 & 3
Session 2: Women and Contemporary Music in Ireland. (Bewerunge Room)
Chair: Dr. Gareth Cox (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick)
Eve O’Kelly (Contemporary Music Centre)
‘What’s it like being a woman composer?’ The question no woman can answer.
Barbara J. Dignam (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
Laptops and Lipstick: Women and Electro-acoustic Music in Ireland.
Karen Power (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick)
..Oh, ……. I thought you were a guy!
Session 3: Women, Traditional Music and the Irish Harp. (O’Callaghan Room)
Chair: Dr. Adrian Scahill (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
Tes Slominski (New York University)
Playing a tune for the Nation: Women Traditional musicians and the boundaries of
Intelligibility in Early twentieth-century Ireland.
Mary-Louise O’Donnell (Independent Scholar)
‘Ireland’s only Harpist’ – Miss Emilie Glover and the ‘Grand Harp and Vocal
Concerts of 1869.
Helen Lyons (University College, Dublin and Dundalk Institute of Technology)
A Gendered History of the Harp.
1.30-2.30: Lunch (Pugin Hall)

2.30 – 3.30: Lunchtime Concert (Renehan Hall)
3.30-4.00: Tea/ Coffee (Music Department)
4.00 – 5.00: Session 4 and 5
Session 4: Women and Music in Eighteenth-Century Ireland. (Bewerunge Room)
Chair: Professor Margaret Kelleher (An Foras Feasa)
Jennifer O’Connor (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
Scandal and influence in the eighteenth century: Dublin’s musical ladies.
Karol Mullaney-Dignam (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
Representations of musical activity in the Retrospections of Dorothea Herbert (1770-
1829).
Session 5: Women and Music in Twentieth-Century Ireland (O’Callaghan Room)
Chair: Dr. Lorraine Byrne-Bodley (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
Teresa O’Donnell (St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra)
A woman’s touch: Olive Smith guiding the musical education of a generation.
Alasdair Jamieson (University of Durham)
Joan and Valerie Trimble – the emergence, development and significance of a piano
duo.
5.20- 6.30: Concert featuring Concorde (Renehan Hall)
6.30- 7.15 Keynote Address (Renehan Hall)
Chair: Professor Barra Boydell
Dr Ita Beausang: 'Daughters of Hibernia: Women and Music in Ireland'.
7.15 Closing Remarks and Wine Reception