SMU Ivory Keys is proud to present "A New Start" to our KZfaq audience; our first live annual production since COVID-19! 🌱 Signifying fresh beginnings, emerging from a pandemic-induced slumber, we proclaim that we are here and will be heard once again! We hope you (belatedly) enjoy the night of piano music we shared, spanning classical, pop, and more.
“It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you.” (Claude Debussy)
Debussy wrote La plus que lente in 1910, the same year he composed the first set of Preludes. His style was mature and his ideas about art and music were very much those of a new beginning rather than a continuation of tradition.
He once referred to Wagner’s music as “A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn” and repeatedly stated the need to abandon the old constraints of theory and form, and express nature and feeling without artificiality.
Performed by Chai Tze Ann at Annual Production 2022, 28 October 2022.
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