... Dress from Paris. The revival of M. Debussy's famous work, Pelleas ct Milisande, at the Opera-Comique, has been one of the principal events in the Paris musical world. A very fashionable audience had assembled to hear the r6le of Melisande interpreted ...

... things of Debussy in the shape of his Trois Ballades de Villon were an interesting feature of Miss Muriel Foster's recent recital. Though written apparently a good many years ago, they differ little in their general characteristics from the Debussy that ...

... PROMENADE CONCERTS. Debussy's Iberia ( Images pour Orchestre—No. 2), heard last night for the first time in London, may be added to the numerous other examples from the same hand which are listened to attentively as the product of one of the most ...

... raise the• flower no‘‘ , For all have got the seed. But this was no reflection on Debussy's originality, cc hatever may have been the ease as regards his imitators. Debussy's own music was certainly his own, although it must not be overlooked, course, as ...

... freely than the others was named Margaret —Mrs. Holmes's Christian name. Debussy and the Lett-Stotlf. In a criticism of Wagrur's Ring, written for a French paper, Debussy was very severe on the kit-motif which the great Richard popularised. After ...

... less enjoyable on this account, even if the labours of the commentator were lessened thereb',. An excellent performance of Debussy's one and only string quartet, by Messrs. Defauw. Richard Day, Frank Bridge, and Emile Doehaerd, led the way. These are,players ...

... prevailing tendencies of modern French music, as represented in the works of Debussy, Ravel, and others, could hardly be more utterly non- Wagnerian than they are. In this connexion Debussy has, it seems, been talking in interesting fashion to an interviewer ...

... at home again, and the strong, strenuous work was played in a manner quite in keeping with its character. Some examples of Debussy and Chopin completed the programme of a very interesting recital. Miss Segue' is not such a powerful pianist as Mr. Barton ...

... piano transcription of his own arranging of Debussy's I,'Apres-Midi d'un Faune, and of the. same composer's orchestral nocturne Fetes. It was a somewhat hazardous undertaking to attempt to translate Debussy's subtle and delicate instrumentation into ...

... , in the. Stein. way Hall, the - second of the new series of concerts of French music is to be given in memory of Claude Debussy, who died a few weeks ago. one of the most gifted and original composers of the new French school of music. Mr. Isidore de ...

... AEOLIAN HALL. An unfamiliar work by Debussy was a feature of the programme of the ioloncello and piano concert given at this hall on Saturday by Mrs. Alfred Holiday and Mr. Warwick Evans. This was a sonata in D minor for the instruments in question, which ...

... many will recall hearing when the work was first produced in England at the l'rince of 'tVales's Theatre in 1898. Since then Debussy has made it impossible to think of the work apart from his musical setting, but Faure% musk is none the less well worth hearing ...