I’ve always loved Claude Debussy’s music. From the first time I heard “Afternoon of a Faun” when I was around 19 or twenty, his music has exerted a strong emotional pull on me. For me, Debussy–and ...

Claude Debussy’s singular visit to Spain lasted only an hour or two, long enough to attend a bullfight. Even so, his contemporary Manuel de Falla declared Debussy’s Iberia to be more genuine than ...

Debussy from the Grand Teton Music FestFred presents a real challenge: a philosophical question about whether music can mean something. He talks to composer Ned Rorem about it, and then we feature ...

It begins with one of the most famous flute lines in history… and played deftly by the Principle flute of the Philharmonia Orchestra, Samuel Coles. [Music sample of Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun] ...

We think of Debussy as a master of the orchestra, but like so many composers he began life as a pianist, and continued to think in pianistic terms throughout his career. One of the many delights of ...

Chromatic third-relations, understood not merely as chromatic mediants (and submediants) but as a more comprehensive array of chromatic arpeggiations, constitute an essential element in Debussy's ...

Many people went to look at her nakedness in Thaïs, to watch her lascivious dancing in Salome. But Mary Garden drew as many operagoers with the emotion in her voice as she did with the perfection of ...

The Symphony season began in Boston last week with Boston’s best in attendance and Serge Koussevitzky conducting. Lest those factors-alone should breed complacency, the management complained in its ...