Music from the War to End All Wars: Music of Debussy and De Falla

Manuel de Falla — Siete canciones populares españolas ("Seven Spanish Folksongs")
Claude Debussy — Syrinx, L. 129
Claude Debussy — Violin Sonata in G minor, L. 140
Manuel de Falla — The Miller's Dance
Béla Bartók — Suite Paysanne Hongroise

Debussy – Sonata for Violin and Piano (Allion Salvador, violin; Laure Struber, piano)
Debussy – Syrinx (Mona Sangesland, flute)
De Falla – Seven Popular Spanish Songs (Dakota Miller, soprano; Jane Heinrichs, piano)
De Falla – The Miller’s Dance (Dennis Ha, guitar)
Bartók – Suite Paysanne Hongroise for flute and piano (Natalie Ham, flute; Li-Cheng Hung, piano)

This series, produced by piano professor Robin McCabe in honor of the 100-year anniversary of the start of World War I, features music composed during the Great War, with historical context offered in commentary and narration. Pre-concert lectures by UW scholars, including Dean Robert Stacey (History), Prof. Ronald Moore (Philosophy), and Prof. Steven Morrison (Music Education) present a variety of perspectives from which to consider the profound impacts of the War to End All Wars.

The debut concert features works by Debussy and De Falla, with a pre-concert lecture, “A Gathering Storm? Artistic Crisis and the Coming of the First World War,” by Robert Stacey, UW history professor and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

About the lecture:

European artists and intellectuals faced a growing sense at the end of the 19th century that a tired, staid, worn-out and decidedly uninspiring artistic world was collapsing. Concurrently, they experienced a sense of responsibility to hasten that world to its grave. But in clearing the ground, in effect, for the artistic world of the new century to emerge, they found themselves unprepared for the deeply unexpected (and in some cases, horrifying) ways that the new artistic world differed from the older one. Moral of the story: When one clears the ground, the new plants that spring up may not be what one expects or wants. But once grown, they cannot be shoved down again beneath the soil.

4 pm Lecture: $10*
4:30 p.m. Concert: $10

*Paid admission to the 4 pm lecture includes admission to the 4:30 pm concert.

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