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... Thought Now, I admit that I have taken extreme instances. There is 110 question as yet of potting Wagner's masterpieces or Debussy's wonderful experiment. But from the greater we may argue to the Iq^s. For the bad principle remains the same, though its ...
... familiar in London of the so-called Dance-Poem, invented by the wonderful Nijinsky, and entitled Jeux. For this production Debussy composed the music. When the novelty was seen re cently in Paris its very bizarre setting a Post- Impressionist garden and ...
... Miss Henschel has inherited all the wonderful talent of her distinguished father, and her songs, chosen from Purcell and Debussy, etc., were sung with sympathy and imagination, and a sense of style which was as arresting as it was beautiful. Miss Colman ...
... new effects, new and strange combinations, which seem to glory in their revolt against the past. The spirit which inspires Debussy, Strauss, and the modern school Continued on p. 134) THE FUTURIST'S IDEA OF TERPSICHORE AN ART-- FINDING YOUR PARTNER The ...
... repertory of the orchestra is asking himself where the difficulty comes in. Why on earth should we hear nothing of Franck, Debussy, or Ravel Where are Rimski-Korsakoff and Borodin P Above all, what has Edward Elgar done to deserve this boycott That British ...
... es for recognition than in England to-day. For in stance, there was no Patron's Fund or Mr. Balfour Gardiner to stand by Debussy, who never even heaid an orchestral work of his performed till he was forty The Unfortunate Conductor Contrast with this the ...
... may mention in passing, a pianist of renown, with a far-away gaze and a pen sive air. Nevertheless, while belauding Claude Debussy and decrying Richard Strauss, he would cause an entire dish of cucumber-sandwiches (it was the day of those edibles) to disappear ...
... 2Eolian Hall. He sang Liederkreis, by Schu mann, and songs in manuJ script by British composers. Mr. Franz Liebich played a Debussy pianoforte pro gramme, including three' pieces which were heard for the first time in England MR. DAVID DEVANT The popular ...
... particular public wants is what the Covent Garden public gets only cheaper. Give them Madama Butterfly, Carmen, Faust some Debussy and even some Slrauss, and I see them rolling up and even coming again and again to the beautiful house which has been erected ...
... knof, 1 sha11 walk ln beautiful, inspired ways, listening to that most spiritual of all modern music, the music of Claude Debussy, Cesar Franck, and Maurice Ravel. Like many highly intellectual people, this accomplished young singer is enamoured of the ...
... that I .regard this shortcoming with more than equanimity. Further, the motif trick gets on Austere Hollander one's nerves. Debussy chaffed Wagner for always introducing his characters with a visiting-card hung round their necks but, ifHhe reproach be just ...
... understand it, an audience would have to be as familiar with the most advanced works of, let us say, the modern French school Debussy's La Mer or Ravel's Rhapsodie Espag- nole as they are with Brahms's second symphony or Wagner's Tristan. And even then they ...