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Besides being regarded as one of the greatest founding fathers of 20th-century modernism, Claude Debussy is also one of music's most intriguing might-have-beens. When he died in 1918, at the age of 55, Debussy seemed to be on the verge of discovering a wholly new musical world.
Concert raises money for new Mott hospital
In an event to help raise money for the newly opened C.S. Mott Children's and Von Voigtlander Women's Hospital, University faculty, staff and students gathered together for a musical performance for the Ann Arbor community yesterday afternoon.
The first performance of a revised version of Hidd'n Blue , by the 26-year-old Spanish-born, London-based Francisco Coll , formed a brief upbeat to this London Symphony Orchestra programme conducted by Coll's teacher, Thomas AdA s . The piece certainly lives up to Coll's description as "3D music for a virtuoso orchestra of the 21st century". Scored ... (more)
There was an all-English, all 20th-century programme for Antonio Pappano 's latest guest appearance with the London Symphony Orchestra, in which Elgar's First Symphony was the focus.
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