... smiling devils. The average Teuton is as likely to appreciate this peculiar characteristic of our race as to under stand Debussy's music. He cannot realise that as much strength can come from a smile as from a frown if not more. Perhaps even we ourselves ...

... which she rendered the Bach Chaconne for violin alone brought the audience to its feet. Amongst other pieces she also gave us Debussy's exquisite Clair de Lune. If the attendants had not turned out the lights in the hall I think we would be there yet, clamouring ...

... 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) ...

... from page 266) the piano, so that, for a few minutes, Rachmaninoff's Prelude (don't neg lect Boredom Insurance) sounds like Debussy, and if not dried immedi ately the piano will get lumbago, and not be able to play anything faster than Ramona or Bach. As ...

... but we fear his sneers too much to ask him about his mowing. He'd simply sneer at our white hands. Cuckoo, Huh Unswerving Debussy fans ourselves, we observed with vague puzzlement the curious reaction of some of the critics to Pelleas et Melisande on its ...

... voice, Mme. Marguerite Solal, who sang melodies by Faurd, Duparc and Chabrier exquisitely, as well as 1' Air de Lia from Debussy's Enfant Prodigue and Bach's Cantate de la Pentecote. Paris is chuckling over an amusing mot that is attributed to Somerset ...

... girls leap and snarl, a spectacle only equalled under Nero. Marie-Christine, poppet, we kiss your tiny hand. Afterthought Debussy, who so finely interpreted the sufferings of the children of France in 191 4 in his Noel des Enfants Qui N'Ont Plus de j Sabots ...

... was only one song in her pro gramme which she did not sing supremely well. Con sidering that that programme included Gluck, Debussy, Richard Strauss, negro spirituals, Jewish spirituals, arias from Carmen, and some Spanish folk songs, this is not a point ...

... 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) ...

... following Sundays with Schubert, Chopin, Schumann; Mendelssohn and Grieg; Brahms and Weber; Liszt and Wagner; and on January 10, Debussy, Franck, and Ravel. Another series of concerts that I am looking forward to is that for children, arranged by Mme. Marty-Zipelius ...

... an exquisite performance of Chopin's toveiy ciance poem, tne valse in A Minor, ana lie is in turn powerful and tender with Debussy's La Plus que Lente. Records quite out of the ordinary are accordion solos by a new His Master's Voice artist, Phil Baker ...

... their love of Wagner, their curi osity about Richard Strauss, their marked, but somewhat decadent, admiration for Claude Debussy. If there is but a mediocre piano, the Entente Cordiale can be established at once, and young France and young England will ...