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... house. Here, in the Street of the Thousand Saints lived Pere Debussy and here he plied his trade, for he was a cobbler, a cobbler of ravaged souls as well as of old and worn-out shoes. Pthre Debussy was a moralist, seldom in speech, but in every action of ...

Published: Wednesday 21 October 1931
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1905 | Page: 50 | Tags: Photographs 

KEY-NOTES: Claude Debussy

... say with certain conviction that Debussy's work carries us to an unexplored world of music, and is the most significant addition to the musician's art since Wagner reached the supreme point of his achievements. Debussy's genius lies in the expression of ...

Published: Wednesday 10 March 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1267 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

KEY-NOTES: Debussy's Masterpiece

... V Debussy's Masterpiece. Whatever the measure of success that awaits Debussy's setting to Maeterlinck's Pelléas et Mélisande in this country, there can be no doubt that the production of the work, call it opera or melodrama, or what you will, will be ...

Published: Wednesday 02 June 1909
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1185 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

Æsthetic Athleticism: AN ESSAY BY; DEBUSSY & NIJINSKY

... /Esthetic Athleticism AN ESSAY BY DEBUSSY NIJINSKY NOW that Nijinsky and the rest of M. Djaghiliew's troupe of dancers have graciously decided to let us admire them once again, curiosity is rife as to their new productions. About Stravinski's new ballet ...

Published: Wednesday 25 June 1913
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 424 | Page: 16 | Tags: Photographs 

MATTERS MUSICAL: SOME MODERN FRENCH MUSIC

... times. Certainly Debussy's quartet, No Tunc except, perhaps, in the last movement, is now as clear -as daylight to anyone at all familiar with modern music. And to us it seems merely funny that anyone should ever have thought that Debussy's music, which ...

Published: Wednesday 13 November 1912
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 555 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

LIGHT IS THE DANCE ANI DOUBLY SWEET THE LAYS'': Some New and Artistic Dances Perfomed by the (Margaret) Morris ..

... songs and dances by Debussy, Ravel, Strav.nsky, l_f I insky ballet entitled Spring. In the left-hand picture is the ballet, Le Faune (Debussy), the performers being Miss Beatrice Filmer (Faune), s a group from La Grotte (Debussy), in which are seen Miss ...

Published: Wednesday 28 February 1917
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 173 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

Graphic

... DEBUSSY'S L'APRES-MIDI D'UN FAUNE SHOWING M. NIJINSKY DUE FOR PRESENTATION BY THE RUSSIAN BALLET ON MONDAY LAST. The Russian Ballet arranged to produce L'Aprfes-midi d'un Faune music by Claude Debussy, book by Stephane Mallarmd-- at Covent Garden, ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1913
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 43 | Page: 1 | Tags: Photographs 

KEY-NOTES

... Claude Debussy at the Queen's Hall last week was of special interest, because it was, in a sense, the official recognition in this country of a musician who has done a great deal to develop modern theories along reasonable lines. In France Debussy is hailed ...

Published: Wednesday 12 February 1908
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1099 | Page: 26 | Tags: Photographs 

THE FOOD OF LOVE.: SOME THOUGHTS ON FRENCH SONG

... sensuousness of a Debussy, and the typical French intellectualism of a Ravel. Nobody is likely to deny that, till his own death a little more than a vear ago, Ravel remained the outstanding figure in French music since the passing of Debussy and Faure. But ...

Published: Wednesday 01 March 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1017 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs 

UNSPOKEN DRAMA

... BLANCHE OSTREHAN INTERPRETING DEBUSSY. Photograph by Frank Davis.] Blanche Ostrehan is not only a very accomplished dancer, but she designs and makes all her own costumes, the one above being for her interpretation of Debussy's Jardin sous la pluie. For ...

YOUTH, FAME, AND BEAUTY: A Human Nightingale in a Suitable Setting

... Smnt^alble Selittiiinig|. THREE OPEN-AIR SNAPS OF MISS MAGGIE TEYTE ______ The famous English singer and favourite interpreter of Debussy's music, who has just returned from triumphant tours in the United States and French Riviera. Her next appearance in London ...

Published: Wednesday 01 May 1912
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 110 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

Opera at Covent Garden: Melisande Naturally Set

... FATEFUL POOL-- IN HER OWN GARDEN MISS MAGGIE TEYTE AS MEUSANDE. SINGING IN DEBUSSY'S PELL£AS AND MELISANDE, AT COVENT GARDEN: MISS MAGGIE TEYTE. THE HEROINE OF THE MAETERLINCK DEBUSSY OPERA: THE BRITISH PRIMA -DONNA, MISS TEYTE. Photographs by Miss Compton ...

Published: Wednesday 02 January 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 172 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs