... I listened yesterday to an ^admirable concert on the wireless from Holland. Songs by Bach and Duparc, a piano concerto of Debussy which was entirely new to me, excerpts from the Rosenkavalier. As the heart-rending strains of the trio from the last act ...

... had a special valet, with a system, to attend to it. Two-collar night, sir. What 's the programme, Parker Not so bad, sir. Debussy, Ravel, Bax, couple of tone-poems. Mostly fiddles, allegro sostenuto. It 's a doddle, sir. Right. But on other nights Parker ...

... imagine, wet ness and dignity are so difficult to maintain in combination. Hence the appeal of such rare works of art as Debussy's Jardine sous la Pluie, which depicts a rainy day at Lord's during one of those enchanting, all-too-brief periods when the ...

... Bells heard in the cool of the evening across quiet fields, of which bells Paul Bourget has so ex quisitely made a poem which Debussy has set to such lovely music Rhythmique et fervent comme nne antienne, Ce lointain appel Me rememorait la blancheur chretienne ...

... afternoon Pops at the Queen's Hall that the Chappell firm are running every night. All sorts of d'lightful Wagners and Verdis and Debussys, with Eugene Goussens and Gustav Hoist conducting. And Leap Year's still dance year, too and there's always that to fall ...

... the music boys are not frequently livery or, as we children of the Muses say laughingly, fey. Snarling and crouching like Debussy at Queen's Hall on that memorable occasion when an unfortunate oboe fluffed a note at the beginning of La Mer, Euterpe's sons ...

... like a portable box-office, was still sorting a snowdrift of tickets for his three-weeks stay two others were arguing about Debussy a fourth was reading Gilbert Murray and a fifth, to my keen delight, was lost in Rob Roy. For although Scott has no share ...

... lingering on the keys, his dark head bowed. What shall I play you to-night, my sweet Promenade,' by Bartok, then some Ravel, then Debussy. And then to bed, he whispered. And the music faintly floated in at Miss Starling's window, where the red roses, which made ...

... and Wagner, if you listen carefully you can hear the bell toll. By the end of the century the novels of Hardy, the music of Debussy, remind us openly that all is not quite well. And so at last we come to 1946, when most of us feel there's nothing left for ...

... -04009. Henry VIII. Dances (a) Morris 12 in. Dance, (b) Torch Dance. (Edward W. German). Petite Suite, No. 1. En Bateau (Debussy). The iEolian Orchestra. J-04011. The Magic Flute Overture, Part 1. 12 in. (Mozart). The Magic Flute Overture, Part 2. (Mozart) ...

... do that, not if it was ever so The traditional Brighton technique, one might almost say. Our information, indeed, is that Debussy's tone-poem was originally called L'Apres-Midi d'un Agent de Change, and inspired by all those stout rosy chaps in natty ...

... Duchess of Guermantes herself would have done the same. No other London conductor has ever tamed the smart like this, though Debussy once made an historic scene. We find from our diary that we never went to a Beecham concert without hoping Beecham would take ...