... CLAUDE DEBUSSY Concert to Help Memorial to a Great Composer It is 10 years since Debussy died, awl a movement is on fool erect a monument to his memory at is birth- place—St. Germaine. TO aid this purpose a concert was held At Wigmore Hall last night ...

... themes by Chopin and Debussy the theatre was in complete darkness. Mr. Stephen Fry, son of Mr. C. B. Fry, is the producer at the Mercury Theatre, and another of his ideas was the use of special lighting and a moving scene. - During Debussy's Refiets dans ...

... THE SHY DEBUSSY. Debussy was probably the shyest person who ever had to appear before the public as an artist, and he was never at home on the platform. At one concert of modern music at which he played a new work of his own he was so uncertain of himself ...

... DEBUSSY DREAM !AMC. Sir Thomas Beecham is a manysided musician. Last night at the 8.8. C. concert at the Queen's Hall he showed Londoners how Debussy should be treated. 4 ' Iberia is one of the well-named Images, and it ,is dream music. Marvellously ...

... Debussy's Telephone Piece Foreign languages are very confus ing. The other day I heard a lady'ask a friend play that charming little piece by Debussy about telephone. one could think wh:ch piece she was referring to. Then said : '* Yoo know—the name ...

... and has thought deeply about it. Incidentally he had an interesting reminiscence of Debussy. Asked during the war if he were inspired to compose at such a time Debussy had replied : I am never inspired; I am either well disposed or badly disposed, but ...

... Debussy st Covert Carden. Tho perfonnanc© of Pelkas Is&ndo Drary Lane was excellent one. A dreamy atmosphere reigned throughout the piece. Edvina was superb os Melisando, and suited the part perfection. Alfred Maguenat made charming Pelleas, and Cotreuil ...

... pieces by Debussy figured In the and it ail no exaggeration to say that the audience revelled in them. The familiar Clair de Lune' was played with charming delicacy and just the right effect. dans reau. another popular example of Debussy. also received ...

... FRENCH SONG RECITAL Faure and Debussy Programme at Aeo. an Hall. The music-lover can always rely upon hearing au intcreeting programme at the Gerald Cooper Chamber Concerts, The music to be performed this season ranges over a wide field, from a harpsi ...

... MISS BOLTON'S RECITAL. From Bach to Debussy. Nliss Betty Bolton, the well piano forte teaelwr, gave a n at the small Public Hall, lint. On Tuesday. Mies Bolton had chosen her programme with a nice mixture of catholicity sad diserimina• tion. Beginning ...

... FRENCH QUARTET IN LONDON. RAVEL, FRANCK AND DEBUSSY IN NOTABLE RECITAL. A chamber-music programme by the Hewitt String Quartet (which hails from Paris) at Aeolian Hall, and a piano recital by Solomon at Grotrian Hall, were the chief of Saturday’s concerts ...

... Prelude L’Aprfes-midi d’un Faune Debussy Fantasia Fireworks - Stravinsky (Conducted by Sir Dan Godfrey.) But Bournemouth, I am delighted to see, is not going to rest content with what has been accomplished. It possesses to-day a Municipal Orchestra ...