Harry Smith Symposium (Getty Research Institute)

Schedule of Events
Symposium Schedule

DAY ONE
FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2001

9:00-9:15 AM	Welcome and Opening Remarks Thomas Crow Director, Getty Research Institute

9:15-9:45 AM	Introduction Rani Singh Director, Harry Smith Archives and Visiting Getty Scholar	*"Harry Smith: An Ethnographic Modernist in America"*

9:50 AM -12:30 PM	Session I: Music

	Presenters Greil Marcus Author of Lipstick Traces and Invisible Republic: Bob Dylan's Basement Tapes	*"Uncle Dave Macon: Agent of Satan?"*

	Robert Cantwell Adjunct Professor, American Studies University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Author of When We Were Good	*"Sound and Sense in Harry Smith"*

	Percy Heath Founder of Modern Jazz Quartet In conversation with Rani Singh (performance presentation accompanied by pianist, Jebb Patton, & drummer Albert "Tootie" Heath)	"Harry Smith: Connecting Sound and Sight"

	Respondent Anthony Seeger Professor, Ethnomusicology University of California, Los Angeles

	Session Panel: Marcus, Cantwell, Heath, Singh

12:30-2:15 PM	Lunch Listening stations will be open in the Harold M. Williams Auditorium Lobby

2:20-4:20 PM	Session II: Film

	Presenters P. Adams Sitney Professor, Visual Arts Princeton University	*"Harry Smith and the Origins of Cinema"*

	William Moritz Professor, Film & Video California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)	*"Early Abstraction, California Films"*

	Moderator/Respondent Jonas Mekas, Director, Anthology Film Archives and Annette Michelson Professor, Cinema Studies New York University

	Session Panel: Mekas, Sitney,

7:30 PM	Film Screening Harold M. Williams Auditorium Films from the Harry Smith Archives

DAY TWO SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2001

9:00-9:15 AM	Welcome and Opening Remarks Thomas Crow Director, Getty Research Institute

9:15-11:30 AM	Session III: Visual Arts and Literature Thomas Crow Director, Getty Research Institute and Author of Intelligence of Art	*"Old and In the Way: Vernacular Americana in the Advanced Visual Art of the 1950s"*

	Stephen Fredman Professor of English Notre Dame University and and Author of The Grounding of American Poetry: Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition	*"Harry Smith and the Poets"*

	Respondent Luc Sante Author of Evidence & Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York

	Session Panel: Crow and Fredman

11:30 AM-1:00 PM	Lunch: Listening stations will be open in the Harold M. Williams Auditorium Lobby

1:00-2:30 PM	Closing Panel:

	Moderator: Thomas Crow Panel: All presenters with special guests and respondents

2:30-2:40 PM	Closing Remarks
	Thomas Crow

7:30 PM	Concert Harold M. Williams Auditorium Produced by: J. Paul Getty Museum Performing Arts, and noted music producer Hal Willner

FRIDAY, APRIL 20, - SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2001

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center

Listening and Video Stations/Exhibition
Newly preserved from the Harry Smith Archives, audio tracks from Smith's Materials for Study of the Religion and Culture of the Lower East Side and the Anthology of American Folk Music, display of the original art from the Anthology, and video selections from Harry Smith's films.

Film Screening: Experimental Work of Harry Smith

FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2001

7:30 PM
Harold M. Williams Auditorium, Getty Center

Harry Smith has long been regarded as one of the leading experimental filmmakers of the 20th century. This evening of selections draws from all aspects of his career: from the hand-painted Early Abstractions to his autobiographical multi-layered travelogue Late Superimpositions. The evening will also include such rare works as Film # 16, Oz: The Tin Woodsman's Dream and unseen works from the Harry Smith Archives.

Acoustic Folk Concert

SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 2001

7:30 PM
Harold Williams Auditorium, Getty Center

In 1952 Folkways Records released Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music. Its eighty-four tracks of Blues, Gospel, Cajun, Appalachian mountain music, and other genres, formed the primary texts for the folk revival of the 1960s. The Anthology continues to inspire a wide range of musicians working today, and the symposium will conclude with a performance featuring Robert Lockwood, Jr., Geoff Muldaur, and the Handsome Family. This concert is produced by the J. Paul Getty Museum Performing Arts in collaboration with noted producer Hal Willner.

WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, APRIL 25-26, 2001

8:00 PM
UCLA, Royce Hall

Hal Willner's Harry Smith Project
Produced by UCLA Performing Arts in Association with the Getty Research Institute and the Harry Smith Archives.

An all-star lineup of musicians presents a radical reinterpretation of Harry Smith's groundbreaking recording: Anthology of American Folk Music. Featuring Beck, Elvis Costello, Marianne Faithfull, Percy Heath, Van Dyke Parks, Bob Neuwirth, Richard Thompson, David Thomas, Todd Rundgren, T. Bone Burnett, the Folksmen, Smokey Hormel, Mary Margaret O'Hara and Kate and Anna McGarrigle (final lineup to be announced).

Concerts are in association with the Getty Research Institute and the Harry Smith Archives.

For more information about Harry Smith visit the Harry Smith Archives web site.