The LMTA Research Center, in collaboration with the Institute of Art Studies at the Polish Academy of Sciences, is carrying out a joint project ‘Polish and Lithuanian Music in Global Perspective: Migration, Diaspora Identities and Homeland’. An international academic conference for this project, titled ‘Paris and Its Influence on the Musical Culture of the Twentieth-Century Central and Eastern Europe’, was held in Warsaw on September 16–18.
The 28 musicologists who participated in the conference—from Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Romania, Georgia, Austria, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States—explored questions such as: How did musical ideas from Paris spread? What did newcomers bring to Paris and how did their presence transform its musical life? What networks did they create? What role did Paris play in the lives and work of emigrants who found their place there, both in the interwar period and during the Cold War?
Lithuania was represented by musicologists Rūta Stanevičiūtė, Kamilė Rupeikaitė, and Jūratė Katinaitė from the LMTA, who presented their research on Lithuanian musicians Vytautas Bacevičius and Antanas Račiūnas, as well as the American Litvak Leopold Godowsky, who studied in Paris.
Photo: Rūta Stanevičiūtė, Kamilė Rupeikaitė, and Jūratė Katinaitė at the Institute of Art Studies in Warsaw.
