Artwork by INNERchamber Visual Artist, Anna Yuschuk:The Elements
Sunday 17 January 2027
To acknowledge “The Canon,” whether in Literature, Music, or visual art is to be party to a tacit acceptance of social hierarchy in human achievement. Much in the same way as every high school-er knows who the cool kids are, “The Canon” lets us know what monuments of human thought are “in” and which are “out.”
Is there an alternate universe in which the brilliant and formidable Ethel Smyth is given her due as a composer, not a “Woman Composer;” where her Piano Trio is given pride of place ahead of the work of many of the white males of her generation?
Perhaps in this alternate universe, there would also be room in the public consciousness for the First Piano Trio of Georges Enescu, full of elegance and cosmopolitan Romanticism, but steeped in a healthy respect for the harmonic language of his native Romania.
Program
Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) Piano Trio in D minor
George Enescu (1881-1955) Piano Trio in A minor
