This series, produced by piano professor Robin McCabe, features music composed during or about World War I, with historical context offered in commentary and narration. This concert features a pre-concert lecture by Steven Morrison, associate professor of Music Education.
Pre-Concert Lecture: 4 p.m.
Concert: 4:30 p.m.
*Paid admission to the 4 p.m. lecture includes admission to the 4:30 p.m. concert.
Pre-Concert lecture: Steven Morrison, Associate Professor, Music Education
Music to My Ears
In this lecture, Steven Morrison, associate professor of Music Education at the UW, posits that the rise of recorded music in the early 20th century resulted in a dissociation of musical sound and action not previously known in a world that had experienced music exclusively in live performance settings. Professor Morrison also addresses the increased attention paid to the perceptual aspects of music in the surge of psychometric testing occurring during the era of the Great War.
CONCERT PROGRAM
"The Lark Ascending" (1914).....RALPH VAUGHN WILLIAMS (1872-1958)
Allion Salvador, violin; Li-Cheng Hung, piano
SIX ETUDES (1915)...................................CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862-1918)
Pour les cinq doigts
Pour les huit doigts
Pour les degres chromatiques
Pour les sonorités opposées
Pour les arpegès composés
Pour les accords
Laure Struber, piano
from EL AMOR BRUJO (LOVE, THE MAGICIAN):
THREE DANCES........................................MANUEL DE FALLA (1876-1946)
Canción del fuego fatuo
El circulo mágico
Danza ritual del fuego
Stella Kosim, guitar Denis Ha, guitar
THREE SONGS OF THE WAR..............................CHARLES IVES (1874-1954)
In Flanders Fields (1919) Tom Sails Away (1917) He is There! (1917)
Dakota Miller, soprano; Jane Heinrichs, piano
LECTURER BIO:
Steven Morrison, Music Education Professor
Steven Morrison is Professor and Chair of Music Education at the University of Washington. An instrumental music specialist, Professor Morrison teaches courses in music education, music psychology, and research methodology and conducts the UW Symphonic Band. He has taught at the elementary, junior high and senior high levels in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Louisiana and has conducted and arranged for bands, orchestras, and chamber groups throughout the United States.
Dr. Morrison is director of the Laboratory for Music Cognition, Culture and Learning investigating neurological responses to music listening, perceptual and performance aspects of pitch-matching and intonation, and use of expressive gesture and modeling in ensemble teaching. His research also includes music preference and the variability of musical responses across diverse cultural contexts.
Prior to joining the UW faculty, Morrison served as Lecturer of Fine Arts at the Hong Kong Institute of Education. He has spoken and presented research throughout the United States, as well as in Australia, China, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Italy, the Netherlands, Thailand, and the United Kingdom. During 2009 he served as a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities and as a Visiting Scholar in the Center for Music and Science at the University of Cambridge.
Morrison’s articles have appeared in Music Educators Journal, Journal of Research in Music Education, Bulletin for the Council of Research in Music Education, Music Perception, Frontiers in Psychology, Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, Missouri Journal of Research in Music Education, Southwestern Musician, and Southern Folklore. Along with collaborator Steven M. Demorest, his research into music and brain function has appeared in Neuroimage, Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Progress in Brain Research and The Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
He is also a contributing author to The Science and Psychology of Music Performance, published by Oxford University Press, the new Oxford Handbook of Music Education, the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Cultural Neuroscience and the text Musician and Teacher: An Orientation to Music Education, authored by UW colleague Patricia Shehan Campbell and published by W.W. Norton.
Morrison is Editor of the Journal of Research in Music Education for which he also served on the editorial board. He is also on the editorial boards of Reviews of Research in Human Learning and Music and the Asia-Pacific Journal for Arts Education. Morrison has served on the executive board of the Society for Research in Music Education and is currently a member of the advisory board for the Asia-Pacific Symposium on Music Education Research. He is past University Curriculum Chair for the Washington Music Educators Association and an honorary member of the Gamma chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi.
He holds a B.M. from Northwestern University, an M.M. from the University of Wisconsin, and a Ph.D. from Louisiana State University.