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... tone scale and in chords of the ninth that are stamped with the hall-mark of Paris. Only the delicacy, the sensitiveness of Debussy and his colleagues are absent. I am reminded of the slight figures of Pelleas and Melisande turned into brass and cast into ...
... that matters. And Delius is almost abnormally per- s o n a 1 one can recognise his music in a moment as readily as that of Debussy, and more readily than that of Strauss. The wonderful feeling for harmony so bold and yet so beautiful, the vague, formless ...
... songs in French and in English, the last group being Irish and Scots. She shone specially in the dramatic Air de Lia from Debussy's L'Enfant Prodigue in Borodine's striking Dissonance and in the lovely Night of Rimsky-Korsakov. The revival of The Jew ...
... novelties are The Village Romeo and Juliet, by Delius, The Wreckers, a stirring opera on an English subject, by Miss Ethel Smyth, Debussy's charming L'Enfant Prodigue, Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel, and a revival of Sullivan's Ivanhoe. 0 9 as The Singers. j\J ...
... novelties are The Village Romeo and Juliet, by Delius, The Wreckers, a stirring opera on an English subject, by Miss Ethel Smyth, Debussy's charming L'Enfant Prodigite, Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel, and a revival of Sullivan's Ivanhoe. ijV 0 ill* The Singers ...
... had the courage of his opinions, at any rate, and was a far more worthy person than the cultured amateur who raved about Debussy without understanding, or, in all probability, even really liking his music. In any case, I love the Democratic Art Proms ...
... Wood's orchestra, has been able to embark on another season-- its 105th. The opening programme on Monday varied from Mozart to Debussy. The violin concertos of Vivaldi and Saint-Saëns were played with masterly skill (particularly in the latter instance) by ...
... The music of this mediaeval idyll, by Mr. G. H. Clutsam, is charming. The be ginning perhaps is a trifle too reminiscent of Debussy, but doubtless a heroine named Melisande had something to do with this Wagner, too, looked in once or twice during the evening ...
... on parapet) 80. Shakspere (statue under stone canopy) 81. Mendelssohn (first of the musical group to left of canopy) 82. Debussy 83. Jenny Lind (with dancing skirt in background) 84. Strauss 85. Caruso 86. Sims Reeves 87. Saint-Saens 88. Beethoven (statue ...
... songs in French and in English, the last group being Irish and Scots. She shone specially in the dramatic Air de Lia from Debussy's L'Enfant Prodigue in Borodine's striking Dissonance and in the lovely Night of Rimsky-Korsakov. The revival of The Jew ...
... lie in complete silence, in absolute darkness, listening while they played, as they played the other evening, the beautiful Debussy music of Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien. In moments of great emotion one is never quite certain of one's expression, and, when ...
... middle-aged, and our ears will re fuse to extend their boundaries at the bid ding of moderns who have yet to arrive. Strauss and Debussy we have striven to comprehend, and we may have succeeded, though not easily. But the Beyond Man of music, what shall we say ...