... which dates only from last year, a kind of choreographic pastel in an appropriate setting by Chirico, with the music of Debussy's Danses Sacrde et Profane. This is the ballet in which the young Canadian dancer, Alexandra Denisova, first attracted attention ...

... composed by Richard Rogers and Lorenz Hart, and is in a vein half-way between Debussy and the modern American idiom. In fact, you might call it torch-singing written in the Debussy scale. I brought over some of the records but was distressed to find that ...

... deliberating glutinously. She likes babies, and chinchilla, and millions of slippers, and having the back of her neck rubbed, and Debussy's music, and toy balloons. There are some other incredible items, but one can vouch for these. Judy then slips into a black ...

... probably have called French pastry. Times have changed. The hall was very full indeed for a concert mainly devoted to Ravel and Debussy over an hour-and-a-half of their music being played without an interval. This is, of course, French pastry of a rare and delicious ...

... which is mostly noise. W hen the music is not noisy, it is painfully unoriginal the ballet in the Parthenon scene is half Debussy and half Rimsky-Korsakoff, and ineffective in either capacity. Oh, Mr. Porter Left Sir Hamilton Harty trying over a score ...

... good French nor was Debussy at the top of his form when he wrote this music the music of a tired man. The play is wordy, and often rather silly. By the time it had finished, at close on midnight, the stock of both d'Annunzio and Debussy in this country had ...

... to the jazz merchants, who are as clever at the American idiom as the Americans themselves. The Alhambra produc tion of Debussy's L'Aprbs-tnidi d'un Faune reminded me far more of Nijinski's original than the performance of Serge Lifar at the Savoy some ...

... evening, entirely because the scenery and lighting were about as full of mistakes as they could possiblvbe. A pitv. this, since Debussy's opera was sung beauti fully, particularly by Mme. Lisa Perli as Melisande, and the orchestral playing, under M. Wolff, of ...

... them to give it, and not to give a performance on his own account. He obviously knew every bar of the Berlioz overture, the Debussy Nocturnes and Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe music. This last is ticklish stuff, with its con stant changing of time-signatures ...

... because Sir Henry Wood is not as good a hand as any at unravelling Ravel, but because we do not want large chunks of Ravel and Debussy on the same programme, though there are certain important differences in their styles. And Lalo, whose Symphonie Espagnole ...

... and nothing more has always held. Chopin was a Pole and Cesar Franck a Belgian, which leaves us pretty well at the mercy of Debussy. There is no French symphony within measurable distance of Beethoven, and anybody who has lived in a French provincial town ...

... plot. And I congratulate him on veering so gracefully from Sir Galahad to Bluebeard, the Marquis de Sade, and the Faun of Debussy (Nijinsky version). Miss Marie Ney, who is a consummate artiste, never forced the note. Her struggles to preserve calmness ...