... in the shape of a French critic took me to the repetition generate (doomed, alas, to be abolished like all nice things) of Debussy's setting of Pelleas et Melisande. The hour fixed was one o'clock at two, some weird and beautiful chords were heard and the ...

... stir there, but of which English people know nothing as yet. Vincent d'lndy, Bruneau, Charpentier, Xavier Leroux, and Claude Debussy are names unknown to our public, but they are doing work which will have to be reckoned with soon. A good deal of it is opera ...

... London. The name of Richard Strauss does not figure in the list, but the ultra-modern school will be represented by Claude Debussy's charming prelude L'apres midi d'un faune. The list of works to be performed, by the way, bears a strangely geographical ...

... es. Two additions to the repertory of the Philharmonic Society were made at the sixth concert at Queen's Hall. M. Claude Debussy's prelude! L'Apres-midi d'un Faune, is a' meditative piece in which no definite theme appears, but the music is so clever ...

... course, to be said. But she showed considerable intelligence, and her programme contained interesting excerpts, chiefly from Debussy and Rachmaninoff, two very interesting exemplars of the modern spirit in composition. In fact, when the former is rid of some ...

... one's expect ations. Mr. Wood gave a very excellent rendering of Sibelius' Symphonic Poem, Finlandia,and also of Claude Debussy's Prelude, L'Apr^s-Midi d'un Faune, this latter work having been produced by Mr. Wood at a Promenade Concert last autumn ...

... the teller. A Musical Story. A good story is being told about those two ultra-modern composers, Richard Strauss and Claude Debussy. Strauss, according to the tale, is supposed to have died and gone to Heaven. The latter assumption is one to which I imagine ...

... weak nesses of the best French composers, and to receive nothing from their best quali ties. With the ex ception of Claude Debussy, composer of Pell6as et Meli- sande, it is hard to find a French com poser to-day who seems likely to outlive his own generation ...

... Falstaff, or of Mozart's Magic Flute, to name but one of that master's neglected operas, or to see Charpentier's Louise, or Debussy's Pelllas et Melisande but I have never yet met the man who expressed a desire to see Ponchielli's La Gioconda or who, having ...

... Fa/staff, or even some of his earlier works If they wished to give us novelties a most laudable ambition why did they not try Debussy's Pelttas et Melisatide, Charpentier's Louise or Giordano's Siberia, all of which are held in high repute on the Continent ...

... cigar; but the moderns who write according to 110 rules demand an attention that cannot be shared with anything else. Strauss, Debussy, Vincent d'lndy, and Faure, to name a few who have added so largely to the old forms and essayed so many harmonic and rhythmic ...

... A numerous audience attended the fourth concert of the Thursday Twelve o'Clock series at the Hiolian Hall last week, when Debussy's String Quartet Op. 10 was the principal work performed. The intricacies of this very modern composition were unravelled ...