Intersections: Music, Words, and Pictures

Lori Laitman — Four Dickenson Songs
Jean Sibelius — The Swan of Tuonela
Robert Schumann — Drei Fantasiestücke, Op. 73
Maurice Ravel — Ma Mère l'Oye ("Mother Goose") Suite
Nikita Koshkin — Usher Waltz
Franz Liszt — "I. Sposalizio" from Années de pèlerinage ("Years of Pilgrimage") II, S. 161

Piano Professor Robin McCabe produces this quarterly series highlighting music inspired by great works of literature, performed by top UW music students and special guests. Each performance includes a pre-concert lecture. In this program, UW English Professor Leroy Searle delivers the pre-concert lecture: "Listening with Your Eyes Open."

Lecture: Listening With Your Eyes Open

In his pre-concert lecture: “Listening with your Eyes Open,” Prof. Leroy Searle will explore some of the ways in which music can – and he argued, should always – be a fundamental feature of undergraduate education. The central point is not limited to teaching people to make music, nor to appreciate it, but to understand it as an indispensable element in human thinking and creativity, drawing, among other things, on work in comparative arts, particularly poetry and music, and philosophical explorations of innovation.

Concert

Lori Laitman – Four Dickinson Songs (Yoojeong Cho, soprano)
Sibelius – The Swan of Tuonela (Logan Esterling, English horn)
Schumann – From Fantasy Pieces, Op. 12 (Andrew Chen, piano)
Ravel – Mother Goose Suite, piano, four hands (Irene Chen, Kay Yeh, piano)
Nikita Koshkin – Usher Waltz (Connor Ritchie, guitar)
Franz Liszt – Sposalizio (Steven Damouni, piano)

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