Flutes and fauns, dreams of the sea, Clair de Lune, and more. We’re celebrating the 150 th of composer Claude Debussy. Claude Debussy at the piano, 1893 Claude Debussy composed in the time of the ...
When I arrived at work in the morning, it was raining steadily outside.As I listened closely in the office on this rainy day, Debussy's 'Clair de Lune' began to play.You might think it's strange to ...
Claude Debussy was slow to develop as a composer for the piano, despite the fact that it was his instrument of choice. But the piano works he did write are extraordinarily important. In their ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Composer Claude Debussy was not a natural at the piano. At first, he struggled to learn to love the instrument. But as he continued to write piano music, Debussy started trying new things, new sounds.
Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...
We tend to honor famous composers reflexively. Is any milestone anniversary complete without a deluge of recordings—some old, some new—saluting the eminence? Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, all have been ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The real marvel of classical music is that it's such a nebulous term. Classical is generally used for anything that's ...