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Claude Debussy's "Pelléas and Mélisande" 1902 is also a dark, ambiguous work, but stage director David Alden's effort to interpret it proved a simplistic distraction.

Glum Season for St. Louis Heidi Walesom 2011

Rather than the warm, deeply upholstered sonority that a German or Italian quartet strives for, the Debussy's sound has almost more air than tone in it - fragrant, evanescent and sighing.

Music review: The Quatuor Debussy with Katherine Chi at Library of Congress 2011

The critic James Huneker, writing in 1903, said that Debussy's tonalities "are vague, even violently unnatural."

From Honkytonk To High Art James Penrose 2012

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Watch the Lovely Trailer for Sylvain Chomet’s Animated The Illusionist | /Film 2010

Alongside Debussy's prelude La Cathédrale Engloutie, a Beethoven sonata Op 90 and a Chopin sequence, she will play three pieces by Toru Takemitsu, together with music by Rintaro Taki and Yoshihiro Kanno.

This week's new music 2011

The 2011-12 opera season at Madrid's Teatro Real bears the unmistakable signature of its daring musical director, Gerard Mortier, whose fall program features three 20th-century masterworks: Strauss' "Elektra" (Sept. 30-Oct. 15); Debussy's "Pelléas et Mélisande" (Oct. 31-Nov. 16); and Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" (Dec. 3-Dec. 23).

Packing in the Performances 2011

Influenced by Debussy's non-Western proclivities, they were also stimulated by the great Paris World's Fairs of 1889 and 1900, where they saw Japanese wood-block prints and Indian textiles, and first heard Balinese and Javanese gamelan music.

Go East, Monsieur Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2012

Claude Debussy's "Pelléas and Mélisande" 1902 is also a dark, ambiguous work, but stage director David Alden's effort to interpret it proved a simplistic distraction.

Glum Season for St. Louis Heidi Walesom 2011

Claude Debussy's "Pelléas and Mélisande" 1902 is also a dark, ambiguous work, but stage director David Alden's effort to interpret it proved a simplistic distraction.

Glum Season for St. Louis Heidi Walesom 2011

Such qualities were apparent in his measured but supple reading of Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" during the Day of Music concerts.

Seattle Symphony's French Revolution David Mermelstein 2011