Paul Bowles Centennial Festival Program (PDF) | Festival Poster (JPG)
Friday, February 4, 2011
CONFERENCE: COWELL CONFERENCE ROOM
9:00–9:15 am Introductory Remarks
Tyrus Miller and Irene Herrmann
9:15–10:45 am Paul Bowles as a Modernist: Making Strange, Making it New
Allen Hibbard, “Paul Bowles and Modernism”
Rob Wilson, “Bowles, the Beats, and ‘Fellaheen Orientalism’”
Jimmy Fazzino, “Bowles’ World Beats”
10:45–11:15 am Coffee Break
11:15–12:45 pm Paul Bowles in North Africa
Brian Edwards, “Paul Bowles in Moroccan Circulation”
Jeffrey Miller, “Publishing Paul Bowles: Cross-cultural Complexities”
Michael Wolfe, “Layachi, Mrabet, and Bowles: Some Memories & Reflections”
12:45–2:00 pm Lunch Break
2:00–3:30 pm Bowles’ Resistant Biographies
Millicent Dillon, “Paul Bowles and the Perils of Biography”
Margaux Cowden, “Seriously Queer: Reflections on the Earnest Intimacies of Jane and Paul Bowles”
Irene Herrmann, “Notes on Musical Friendship”
3:30–4:00 pm Coffee Break
4:00–5:30 pm Ten Minutes Walk from Bowles’ Apartment
Karim Debbagh and Frieder Schlaich
CONCERT: MUSIC RECITAL HALL
6:00-7:30 pm Manhattan Skyline
Ensemble Parallèle – Nicole Paiement, conductor
Michael McGushin, spoken word
The Dancer (West Coast Premiere)
Romantic Suite (West Coast Premiere)
Three Pastoral Songs (West Coast Premiere)
Selected Songs for Voice and Piano
Saturday, February 5, 2011
CONFERENCE: COWELL CONFERENCE ROOM
9:00–9:10 am Introductory Remarks
Tyrus Miller and Irene Herrmann
9:10–10:40 am Bowles’s Other Personae
Rodrigo Rey Rosa, “Paul Bowles as Translator”
Timothy Mangan, “Paul Bowles as Music Critic”
Philip Schuyler, “The Composer as Collector”
10:40–11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00–12:00 pm Excavating Paul Bowles
Multimedia presentation, with photographs and video, by Timothy Murray and Francis Poole
12:00–1:00 pm You are Not I
Film screening with filmmaker Sara Driver
1:00–2:00 pm Lunch Break
EXHIBITION: ELOISE PICKARD SMITH GALLERY, COWELL COLLEGE
1:30–3:30 pm “Bowles in Black and White,” Exhibition Opening and Reception
HUMANITIES LECTURE HALL
3:30–5:00 pm Edumund White: “The Desert and Fatality: Learning from Paul Bowles”
CONCERT: MUSIC RECITAL HALL
5:30–6:30 pm A Musical Portrait
Brian Staufenbiel, Patrice Maginnis, voice
Michael McGushin, Irene Herrmann, piano
John Dizikes, spoken word
Two-Piano Sonata
Mexican Dances for Two Pianos (West Coast Premiere)
Blue Mountain Ballads
Two Gertrude Stein songs (West Coast Premiere)
Songs with Texts by Jane Bowles, Paul Bowles
Cuatro Canciones de Garcia Lorca
Selected Readings from Paul Bowles texts
Sunday, February 6, 2011
CONCERT: MUSIC RECITAL HALL
11:00–12:00 pm The Unknown Bowles
Dizikes Music Event, cosponsored by Cowell College
Ariose Vocal Ensemble – Michael McGushin, conductor
Rodrigo Rey Rosa, spoken word
Sonata for Oboe and Clarinet
Folk Song Settings (arranged by Irene Herrmann)
Tornado Blues (West Coast Premiere)
Three Choral Settings of Bowles Songs (arranged by Michael McGushin)
Songs from the Sierras
Readings about Paul Bowles by his friends
Light reception to follow