Claude Debussy died a century ago, but his music has not grown old. Bound only lightly to the past, it floats in time. As it coalesces, bar by bar, it appears to be improvising itself into being ...

From Claude Debussy to Leonard Bernstein, we celebrate some of the very best music written after 1900, through the lens of ten landmark works. The 20th century ushered in a period of drastic ...

Debussy and "world music" At this time, Debussy was no novice in matters of what we now refer to as "world music." No doubt at the previous Expo in 1878 he had been interested to hear North ...

Writing music about water came naturally to Claude Debussy. ... Why Water Was Fundamental To Claude Debussy’s Music. By Matt Weesner · Nov. 11, 2019, 4:28 pm. Listen Now. 2min 00sec.

Debussy’s music has stood the test of time, ... Tornado Fails History and Genre. ... But Tuesday night was Claude Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, ...

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 ...

Claude Debussy Plays His Own Jazzy 'La Plus Que Lente' : Deceptive Cadence Marking the 100th anniversary of the visionary composer's death, hear Debussy play his own music on a 1913 piano roll.

About Claude Debussy (1862–1918) The eldest of five children, Debussy entered the Paris Conservatoire in the fall of 1872 at the age of 10 and left 12 years later as an extraordinarily accomplished ...

100 years ago, today, Claude Debussy, the poster boy gateway-composer from romanticism to modernism, died. He left us an œuvre much of which charms us, but also still has the power to fluster us.

Punch Brothers at Suwannee Springfest 2014. (John Davisson/Invision/AP) What do Claude Debussy, Radiohead and The Strokes have in common? They’ve all been covered by Punch Brothers, who perform ...

Claude Debussy’s Pelléas and Mélisande holds a unique place in the repertoire of turn-of-the-century France. For his only completed opera, Debussy rejected the musical and dramatic conventions ...