Debussy News

An oddly eclectic range of music awaited Doha's concertgoers at the performance of the Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra at the Aspire Hall on Saturday.

With a bright young American subbing on the podium, and an off-beat bill of fare capped by a jazzy piano concerto, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's concert Thursday night turned out to be a refreshing delight.

The Wichita Symphony delivered a wonderful array of musical selections Sunday easily likened to the courses of a gourmet meal.

L'Apres-midi , performed at the Laban Centre as part of Dance Umbrella , is a serious, quite highbrow piece of European dance theatre that doesn't resort to crowd-pleasing or spectacle in order to keep the audience focused.

A SUPREMELY accomplished string quartet, the Ebene's playing betrayed such fluidity and fluency they could well have been one person, so cohesive and seamlessly integrated was it.

In 1941, artist Henri Matisse, bedridden and sick with cancer, turned to a new medium after he found he could no use a paintbrush.

Justin Baron, alternative piano pop artist is premiering his new EP, "Soundless Panic," at a CD Release event at MilkBoy Coffee on Thursday, November 12th at 8:00pm in Ardmore, PA.

It seems like they are best of buddies, but in reality Spanish musician Mariano E. Abello and Japanese pianist Mayo Shimonishi say that they battle with their ideas and philosophies everyday at their work place Kathmandu Jazz Conservatory School in Jhamsikhel.

Tealights' six-song debut is a sweeping marriage of laptop textures and bold strings sculpting dramatic moods that are very pretty but brittle.

The brilliant young pianist Xiayin Wang will be heard in recital on Friday evening, October 30th at 8 p.m. at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, 14 Shelton Cove Lane.

At Weill Recital Hall on Friday evening the superb French soprano Sandrine Piau explored the "mysteries and dimensions of womanhood": a bountiful topic that has kept male poets busy for centuries and provided texts for innumerable songs.

Mika Pohjola is a Finnish-born jazz pianist and composer, who resides in New York City.

ANNANDALE - The Woodstock Chamber Orchestra opens its 31st season with a program combining old favorites with colorful rarities 8 p.m. Oct.

Tucked away on the second floor of Deering Library is a room for music lovers where students, faculty and staff can now check out up to five CDs a week.

THIS year's Leeds International Chamber Season opens this autumn with the first of six concerts featuring French music from the 1870s onwards.

'Gutsy writing . . . inventive use of color . . . unusual instruments . . . still pretty unique." Those musical descriptions from Philadelphia composer Jennifer Higdon suggest a critique of Berlioz, Debussy, or some other classical composer with Mount Rushmore status.

If Les Paul had invented the solid body electric guitar in 1900s instead of the 1950s, would Claude Debussy and Gustav Mahler have become rock stars? Hard to say.

ALTHOUGH it was what few would have expected from the opening of a concert which featured the RSNO alongside the mighty Kelvingrove organ, the faintly audible sound of a flute stop had the desired effect.

Dvorak and Debussy have been dumped from daylight hours. Mozart's gone missing. Beethoven has left the building.

The Dark World Of BW Recknagel - New Classical Debut "Nihilum" With many classical contemporary composers being obsessed with abstract art, German composer BW Recknagel has no intention to re-invent the wheel All 10 pieces, ranging from Minimalism to dark Romanticism, have hypnotic tones of such intimacy and emotional depth that the listener is ...