Session Details

Thursday, 30 December

723. Kafka and Music: Musical Pieces Inspired by Kafka

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Regency Ballroom C2, Loews

Program arranged by the Kafka Society of America

Presiding: Judith L. Ryan, Harvard Univ.

1. “Finding the Right Key for Kafka’s Castle: André LaPorte’s Opera Das Schloss,” Ruth V. Gross, North Carolina State Univ.

2. “Paradoxical Barriers and Morphing Forms: György Kurtág’s ‘Kafka-Fragments,’ Op. 24,” Martha Hyde, State Univ. of New York, Buffalo

3. “Recomposing Kafka: Ernst Krenek’s ‘Sechs Motetten nach Worten von Franz Kafka,’” Francien Markx, Ball State Univ.

4. “Breaking Boundaries: Pozzi Escot’s Chamber Music Inspired by ‘The Metamorphosis,’” David Fulmer, New England Conservatory

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