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Music from the War to End All Wars: Music of Ravel, Bartok, and Prokofiev; Pre-concert lecture by Prof. Ronald Moore

Sunday, March 8, 2015 - 4:00pm
$10 (cash or check at the door), Notecard. Paid admission to the 4 pm lecture includes admission to the 4:30 pm concert.

This series, produced by piano professor Robin McCabe in commemmoration of the centennial of the beginning of the Great War, features music composed during World War I, with historical context offered in commentary and narration.
This concert features music by Ravel, Bartok, and Prokofiev, with a pre-concert lecture, “Music in the silentness of duty; peace where the shell-storms spouted red,” by UW philosophy professor Ronald Moore.

NOTE:  Daylight Savings Time begins today.  Spring ahead one hour.

Lecture: 4 p.m.*
Concert: 4:30 p.m.
*Paid admission to the 4 pm lecture includes admission to the 4:30 pm concert. 

Pre-Concert Lecture:
Ronald Moore, Professor of Philosophy
Music in the silentness of duty; peace where the shell-storms spouted red

Poets and musicians worked to find meaning in the unimaginable suffering and loss of the Great War. The unprecedented amount of combat loss, the volume of national engagement, the absence of any sign that it would end held Europe in a horrible pall. The great war poets reflected on this dreadful, remarkable state as well as on the heroism of those who continued to throw themselves into battle, and produced some extraordinary perceptions about the best and worst of humanity.

 Note: The title of Professor Ronald Moore’s March 8 lecture is an abbreviated quotation from Wilfred Owen's poem, APOLOGIA PRO POEMATE MEO. The stanza, in full, reads:

 I have perceived much beauty in the hoarse oaths that kept our courage straight
Heard music in the silentness of duty;
Found peace where shell-storms spouted reddest spate.
  


CONCERT PROGRAM

Roumanian Dances, Transcribed for Violin and Piano                       Bela Bartok (1881-1945)

            Dance with Sticks
            Sash Dance
           Stamping Dance
           Hornpipe Dance
           Roumanian Polka
          Quick Dance

 Corentin Pokorny, violin;  Jane Heinrichs, piano

  

Sonata No Four in C minor, Opus 29                                                 Sergei Prokofiev  (1891-1953)
 (from The Old Notebooks)                                                    

            Allegro Molto Sostenuto
            Andante Assai
            Allegro Con Brio, Ma non Leggiero
            Lidia Kotlova, piano

-Intermission-  

Menuet, from ‘Le Tombeau de Couperin’                                         Maurice Ravel

             Li-Cheng Hung, Piano

 
Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello                                                          Maurice Ravel

            Modérè
            Pantoum:  Assez vif
            Passacaille:  Très  Large
            Final:   Animè 

Trio Andromeda: Li-Cheng Hung, piano;  Allion Salvadore, violin; Hye Jung Yang, cello

 

LECTURER BIO:

Ronald Moore, Philosophy Professor

Professor Moore received his bachelor's degree from Stanford University, and his PhD from Columbia University. He did post-doctoral study at Harvard Law School as a Liberal Arts Fellow. Previously to his appointment at the UW, he taught at the University of Hawaii. He has chaired the UW Faculty Senate, has served on the UW Medical Center Board of Directors, and has directed the UW Center for the Humanities. He is fond of beauty and goodness.

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