... week we were lucky enough to hear Debussy's Iberia and some portion of Delius's Village Romeo and Juliet in the same programme and I must say that I was slowly convinced that Delius's music is in reality better than Debussy's XA $A rlfV I think the general ...

... MATTERS MUSICAL The Visit of M. Debussy M. Claude-Achille Debussy has been, and has gone. Previously, in England, one had understood little of his art; now one understands less. This is, of course, as it should be, for M. Debussy is a Mystic, and the test of ...

... of the Apres-Midi. But Debussy's sense of arrangement, of climax, of contrast, is wanting. The diffuse Celtic imagination suffers from the absence of the clear Gallic mind. Even now it takes Bax one minute to say what Debussy says in three- quarters ...

... which dates only from last year, a kind of choreographic pastel in an appropriate setting by Chirico, with the music of Debussy's Danses Sacrde et Profane. This is the ballet in which the young Canadian dancer, Alexandra Denisova, first attracted attention ...

... lesser degree are composers at least as interesting as any to be found in any other country, Strauss, Schonberg, Ravel, and Debussy, perhaps excepted. True, we have no great striking musical personality of a kind to capture popular imagination and journalistic ...

... composed by Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart, and is in a vein half-way between Debussy and the modern American idiom. In fact, you might call it torch-singing written in the Debussy scale. I brought over some of the records but was distressed to find that ...

... the high praise of Voltaire, and were no more banal than is Nijinsky's un- classic interpretation of so classic a gem as Debussy's L'Apres Midi d'un Faune. He is on surer ground in his description of the various Russian ballets we have all of us seen ...

... deliberating glutinously. She likes babies, and chinchilla, and millions of slippers, and having the back of her neck rubbed, and Debussy's music, and toy balloons. There are some other incredible items, but one can vouch for these. Judy then slips into a black ...

... English character. Similarly one has to look to subsidising elements for the opportunity of seeing, at Covent Garden, M. Debussy's Pelleas and Melisande. I.ike most of the Irish plays, it is all in the air. Indeed, M. Maeterlinck's atmosphere is so ...

... probably have called French pastry. Times have changed. The hall was very full indeed for a concert mainly devoted to Ravel and Debussy over an hour-and-a-half of their music being played without an interval. This is, of course, French pastry of a rare and delicious ...

... English character. Similarly one has to look to subsidising elements for the opportunity of seeing, at Covent Garden, M. Debussy's Pelleas and Melisande. I.ike most of the Irish plays, it is all in the air. Indeed, M. Maeterlinck's atmosphere is so ...

... which is mostly noise. W hen the music is not noisy, it is painfully unoriginal the ballet in the Parthenon scene is half Debussy and half Rimsky-Korsakoff, and ineffective in either capacity. Oh, Mr. Porter Left Sir Hamilton Harty trying over a score ...