Friday, August 14, 2026, 7 p.m.
Out of the Shadows
7600 Fay Avenue, San Diego, 92037
In the shadow of the First World War, composers faced a world irrevocably changed.
From Debussy’s starkly ravishing two-piano piece and Bridge’s elegiac lament to Poulenc’s sardonically defiant wit, this program reveals how upheaval reshaped musical language—culminating in Korngold’s Suite for Left Hand, written for a war amputee and transforming loss into radiant virtuosity.