... A COMPLETE NOVELTY IN OPERA Pelleas et Melisande An Atmospheric Story That the individual methods of M. Claude Debussy as applied to Maurice Maeterlinck's fantastic play, Pelléas et Mélisande, have resulted in a completely successful essay in the form ...

... WRAPT IN THE TRESSES OF MELISANDE M. Maeterlinck's beautiful play, set to music rather than made into an opera by M. Claude Debussy, has been revived again at Covent Garden, where it was first produced in May last year. This picture illustrates the opening' ...

... emotions till now untouched-- because considered unsuitable for musical expression-- are heard, judged and not found wanting. Debussy, borrowing from what is known as the young Russian school (though it has flourished in reality for more than fifty years) ...

... CLAUDE ACHILLE Clnude Achille Debussy (1862 one of the foremost of French composers was bom at St. Germain-en-Laye, August 22, 1862. 51013. Prelude a VApris-Midi dun Faune. This celebrated orchestral composition by Debussy has for its programme basis a ...

... Bells heard in the cool of the evening across quiet fields, of which bells Paul Bourget has so ex quisitely made a poem which Debussy has set to such lovely music Rhythmique et fervent comme nne antienne, Ce lointain appel Me rememorait la blancheur chretienne ...