... Debussy Achille-Claude Debussy, several of whose works will be featured at the Festival, was born in St Germain, near Paris, a century ago. When seven years old he had pianoforte lessons, and in 1873 he entered the Paris Conservatoire to study composition ...

... Debussy Delight Ducret-Thomson are much to be praised for their enterprise in putting out a complete issue of Debussy's two books of 12 Etudes on DTL93012 played by Albert Ferber. These Etudes have never been procurable in long-playing recorded form in ...

... Debussy clowns, and, as Pa ly tormented a doubtedly romant is what Cocteau had wise the whole thing prehensible EXCELLENT ABSTRACTS Farther up Lothian Road, in Hendry's, at No, 85, there are some excellent abstract tapestries by Harry Wright, taking time ...

... Tender Debussy Dalkeith Symphony Orchestra: Lasswade High School Centre b CM{ » 'fadc:aah:umm is a lot of about the DSO’s efforts under the sure beat of conductor Alasdair Mitchell. Added to that, they served to instil, if need be, some tenderness as ...

... Debussy Although the time has long gone past when superior people professed to he amused at Debussy ' s unconventional harmonies , and others of a simpler cast became exasperated at the sound of his music , and called its performance an insult to the ...

... THE DEBUSSY CONCERT. On entering the Music Hall last night, Mr Simpson's classical concert subscribers and othefs attracted by the fame of Debussy were met by the announcement that the composer himself would not be present. Seized with sudden illness ...

... DEBUSSY AND MOZART Dr Szell handled this exuberant Sympggny, scoring with his usual adroitness, and made it a source of pleasantly stimulating sound without descendin% to melodramatic elements or sentimentality. He also_proved himself an adept in the ...

... DEBUSSY DISAPPOINTS The middle item, Debussy’s Sonata for flute, viola, and harp, was acceptable in the context of the composer’s centenary, but it will do his memori'l no harm to aver that he could have done better than that, with only three years of ...

... VERDI AND DEBUSSY It was. perhaps, a little to the disadvantage of the Halle that they should have been brought into this year's Festival immediately after such a well-endowed orchestra as The Hamburg. The contrasts in tonal characteristics were quite ...

... WARLOCK DEBUSSY VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Greensleeves Fantasia FAURE Requiem Tickets: £6.50 £4.50 from Box Ottice, Usher Hall, Lothian Rd, Edinburgh (031) 228 1155 Mon-Sat 10am-spm. The concert is part of 3 Summer Festwal of Music i Cathedrals. This series of ...

... poems which Debussy later wrote for speaker, two flutes, two harps and celeste. Until Pierre Boulez rescued them from oblivion in the 19505, these settings held an almost mythical place in the composer's output. It was known that Debussy had abandoned ...

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