Out of the Shadows
La Jolla Music Society
Friday, August 14, 2026 at 7 PM
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The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center
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.
