An associate professor of English and a classically trained pianist, John David Moore, will be performing a concert with Elaine Fine, a violinist and teacher at Lake Land College.

The Tarble Arts Center is sponsoring a two-event series titled “British Music from the Eve of the Great War 1904-1914” and “British Music Written during the Great War and Published 1915-1920” at 7 p.m. Thursday in the Atrium of the Tarble Arts Center.

The duo will perform works from after World War I and this will be the first concert of the two that will take place Oct. 6 and Nov. 17.

Thursday’s event will showcase “Sonata” by York Bowen; “Mouvement de Sonate” and “Humoresque” by Frank Bridge; “Sospiri” by Sir Edward Elgar; “Sonata No. 1 in D Minor” by John Ireland; and “Elegy,” “Valse Triste,” and “Romance” by Cyril Scott.

“The goal was to showcase classical music that many people may not be aware of that happened after World War I with the help of my friend (Elaine Fine),” Moore said.

Fine is a graduate of The Julliard School of Music and the daughter of a principal violinist in the Boston Symphony.

“She is more of a professional musician than I am,” Moore said. “I am also a teacher, so it is hard to focus on just one thing and put one over the other.”

Fine served as the classical music director of Eastern’s WEIU-FM for 12 years and is currently the principal violinist of the Eastern Symphony Orchestra.

“People have heard music from these people; I am sure they have,” Moore said. “They are just unaware of what they are hearing.”

Sir Edward Elgar is most known for composing “Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1,” and “The Graduation March.”

The second concert, “British Music Written during the Great War and Published 1915-1920” will feature music by Arnold Bax, Thomas Dunhill, John B. McEwen, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

This series of concerts is sponsored by the Eastern department of English and is presented with Moore’s senior seminar “Literature of the Great War 1914-1918 and After.”

“I teach a British Literature class and (the concert) ties in well to my teachings,” Moore said. “It is nice when two things compliment each other and work well together.”

Both concerts are free and open to the public.

Lenny Arquilla can be reached at 581-2812 or lrarquilla@eiu.edu.