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 ...
Monet Mondays, a new feature through January on CPR Classical, will explore the rich catalog of French Impressionist music and its relationship with the art that helped inspire it. Monet Mondays takes ...
If there's one piece of trivia to know about Edgar Degas, it's that he loathed being considered an Impressionist. Yes, the man arguably most associated with the movement, who spearheaded the first ...
Before our age of specialization, composers were often performers and vice versa. Among well-known composer-conductors were Mahler, Elgar, Strauss, and the late Pierre Boulez. Matthias Pintscher, a 45 ...
West Music and the Figge Art Museum are collaborating to host world-renowned concert pianist Stephen Swedish in a concert at 6 p.m. Tuesday entitled "French Impressionism in Painting and Music." The ...
This homage to 20th–century French Impressionist composers by alto saxophonist Lee Konitz and the Axis String Quartet might best be described as a sometimes interesting but more often overly ambitious ...
With summer only weeks away, the festival season is in full bloom. Exhibits on Impressionism and key retrospectives of noted artists also are on a busy art lover's agenda. Anchorage --A We're in ...
Reynolda House Museum of American Art will present "French Impressionisms," a program of French Impressionist music and poetry, at 3 p.m. next Sunday. Pianist Pamela Howland will play music by Claude ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Pianist and producer Elijah Fox is welcoming musicians into his exciting new ...