Fantasies, Folk, and Fairy Tales

Free

Piano Professor Robin McCabe produces this quarterly series highlighting music by composers influenced by folk and fairy tales. Each concert features a pre-concert lecture by a UW faculty scholar and music performed by top UW Music students.

Lecture: Professor Denyse Delcourt

And the Wolf Ate Her: The Dark Side of Fairy Tales”

 

Program

Schumann: Three Fantasy Pieces for Cello and Piano, Opus 73
Tenere e con l'espressione
Vivace, Facile
Rapidamente e con il fuoco

Youngbin Kim, cello; Lorenzo Marasso, piano

Atanas Ourkouzounov: “Three East Tales,” for flute and guitar
The Fox’s dance
The Red Elf’s Lullaby
Dracula Caprice

Elise Kim, flute; Lucas Victor, guitar

Maurice Ravel: from “Gaspard de la Nuit”
Ondine
Scarbo

Hexin Qiao, piano

INTERMISSION

Robert Schumann: from Fantasy Pieces, Opus 12
Des Abends
Aufschwung
In der Nacht
Traumes Wirren

Minsun Kim, piano

Maurice Ravel: The Don Juan and Dulcinea Songs
Romanesque Song
Epic Song
Drinking Song

Jared White, baritone; Dhayoung Yoon, piano


Guest Lecturer Bio

Denyse Delcourt
Denyse Delcourt is a writer and a medievalist. She has published two novels: 
Gabrielle au bois dormant (Editions Trois 2001) and Rouge (Lévesque Editeur 2015). She is the author of L'Ethique du changement dans le roman français du Moyen Age (Geneva: Droz, 1990); the editior of French Fairy Tales: Essays on a Major Literary Tradition (Cognella 2011), and the co-editor (with Stephen Nichols) of De Theoria: Early Modern Essays in Memory of Eugene Vance (MLN 2012). Her articles on French medieval romances have appeared in Le Moyen FrançaisThe Romanic ReviewMedieavalia & HumanisticaMedieovo Romanzo, and MLN, among others. She has been teaching at the University of Washington since 1990. Other teaching experiences include Queens (Canada), Emory, Northwestern and Duke universities. Her teaching and research interests are Old French language and literature, contemporary Québécois literature and French fairy tales.

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