IGNIS Presents: "The Dead Are Sad Enough" -Maurice Ravel
IGNIS Presents: "The Dead Are Sad Enough" -Maurice Ravel
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French composer Joseph Maurice Ravel is known for saying "the dead are sad enough" when criticized that his piece "Le Tombeau de Couperin" was too light-hearted. The School of Music's graduate fellowship woodwind quintet IGNIS performs works by Ravel, Peteris Vasks, Ruth Crawford Seeger, John Steinmetz and Lalo Schifrin that all ponder the different ways that the living process death.
Program:
Maurice Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Peteris Vasks: Music for a Deceased Friend
Ruth Crawford Seeger: Suite for Woodwind Quintet
John Steinmetz: Quintet
Lalo Schifrin: La Nouvelle Orleans (New Orleans)
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