... something akin to an unspoken demand for a work of pure beauty. Lon don responded im mediately a large gatheringassembled to hear Debussy's masterpiece. The antagonism between the early Victorians, who regard Tra- riata and Lucia di Lammermoor as works of art ...

... D'ANNUNZIO. by Bert E Gabriele d'Annunzio's new mystery-play, Le Martyre de Saint Sebistien, with incidental music by Claude Debussy, was produced at the Chatelet in Paris on Monday of last week. Writing in advance of the production, the Times said the ...

... remembered. Since those far off days a new generation has arisen. We are familiar with all Wagner's moods, we know Strauss, Debussy, Charpentier, and others who have treated opera as a living medium for the expression of every emotion known to man, and, ...

... one asked oneself with mild interest Now where have I heard that before The score is full of Wagner, Puccini, elementary Debussy, and Gounod at his slimiest. If I had to single out the best number I should say that it was Petronius's song at the end of ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... five long acts, and the slim Ida is on the stage most of the time, and she gives little indication of great physique. Claude Debussy's incidental music is almost the finest thing he has done yet, and I advise you, a lover of Pelleas et Melisande to come over ...

... given by Miss Elsie Hall and Mr. Charles Draper, who gave for the first time in England the new rhapsodie in B flat minor, by Debussy, for pianoforte and clarinet. Mr. Draper has been called, and not without reason, the English Muhlfeld. I myself had the ...

... disappointed. The music seemed to meander about without ever completely expressing the atmosphere of the play as is the case with Debussy. Moreover, the short intervals of real melody were too remini scent of the same composer's previous operas ever to excite ...

... Chopin waltz pales before the memory of Mordkin and Anna Pavlova. The Da use Sacree et Profane in spite of the magic of Debussy's music is monotonous, even with a red light. It is in Schubert's Moment Musicale and the dances above referred to which show ...