... an exquisite performance of Chopin's toveiy ciance poem, tne valse in A Minor, ana lie is in turn powerful and tender with Debussy's La Plus que Lente. Records quite out of the ordinary are accordion solos by a new His Master's Voice artist, Phil Baker ...

... their love of Wagner, their curi osity about Richard Strauss, their marked, but somewhat decadent, admiration for Claude Debussy. If there is but a mediocre piano, the Entente Cordiale can be established at once, and young France and young England will ...

... pro duced by Mr. Thomas Beecham at His Majesty's. The musical dilet tanti, formerly interested only in Wagner, Strauss, and Debussy, seem frankly allured, in 1910, by the Ewig Weibliche which is, in both text and music, the theme of Offenbach's posthumous ...

... emotions till now untouched-- because considered unsuitable for musical expression-- are heard, judged and not found wanting. Debussy, borrowing from what is known as the young Russian school (though it has flourished in reality for more than fifty years) ...

... 10.30 to 12.15. It would be easy to find perfect pieces for the musical illustration of certain dishes. I should suggest Debussy's Poissons d'Or for fillet of soles, the Forest Scene, out of Siegfried, for jugged hare, a selection from Carmen for pommes ...

... Womanhood has cer tainly gone ou ner neaa. strauss has hurled the fury of his atmo spheric discords into the middle' of Music Debussy has put the extinguisher on Melody, and it is significant of the signs of the times that last week, when the Royal Academy ...

... CLAUDE ACHILLE Clnude Achille Debussy (1862 one of the foremost of French composers was bom at St. Germain-en-Laye, August 22, 1862. 51013. Prelude a VApris-Midi dun Faune. This celebrated orchestral composition by Debussy has for its programme basis a ...

... A-rt- Swinburne, a Turner, and a Stevens could not evolve an operatic composer of equal genius with, say, Puccini or Claude Debussy. Evidently the racial intelligence does not run towards opera, because there is little racial sympathy with this (to put it ...

... hearers. Another feature which reaped instantane ous success was the beautiful Spring setting in which a dance by M. Claude Debussy is per formed by Mr. Morrison, Miss Mossetti, and Miss Monkman with ex- rpllpTYf- p.fFp.rrf Thp costumes are beautifully designed ...

... show that he is as much admired by painters as by the public. Of these, the canvas by Glyn Philpot depicting Nijinsky as Debussy's Faun before the curtain is the most curiously charac teristic. As le Spectre de la Rose, the young Russian has great charm ...

... the sink, said the Conductor. Always. I have to. Once, said Faith, in a low voice, he started thinking about a song of Debussy's Le Temps a Laisse Son Manteau, said the Conductor. and had a very unfortunate experience, said Faith. What I said. Don't ...

... conduct the first performance in England of his popular opera, we shall hear operas by Massenet, Charpen- tier, and Claude Debussy. Why has Massenet's Manon been left on the shelf so long It has more melody in any one act than Puccini's Manon Les- caut ...