I’ve always loved Claude Debussy’s music. From the first time I heard “Afternoon of a Faun” when I was around 19 or twenty, his music has exerted a strong emotional pull on me. For me, Debussy–and ...

It begins with one of the most famous flute lines in history… and played deftly by the Principle flute of the Philharmonia Orchestra, Samuel Coles. [Music sample of Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun] ...

As a composer whose orchestral music usually grew from scenic or pictorial inspirations – the sea, a faun, clouds, a street festival in Spain – Debussy probably seems an unlikely writer of something ...

March Music Moderne, Portland's annual quirky festival of new music, will celebrate Claude Debussy this year with a series of events inspired by the influential French composer, who died 100 years ago ...

In the western suburbs of Paris 150 years ago today, a boy was born to an unassuming couple, proprietors of a china shop who had no great taste for music. But that little boy felt otherwise, and grew ...

So much music, so little time. Last spring, Thomas Heuser asked Shelley Mann if she would consider a solo recital in the 2025 San Juan Symphony Chamber Music Series – or a lecture recital. She opted ...

Impressionism in art is fairly easy to describe: thin brush strokes, obscured edges, the play of light. Impressionism in music is harder to articulate. Composer Claude Debussy translated visual ...

PARIS—One essential charm of "Debussy, Music and the Arts," just opened at the Musée de l'Orangerie, is that it offers a glimpse into the atmosphere of a certain Belle Epoque Paris. The décor of dark ...

Kirill Gerstein’s immense recording project “Music in Time of War” surveys works by artists who witnessed World War I and the Armenian genocide. By Hugh Morris Born before the outbreak of World War I, ...