It begins with one of the most famous flute lines in history… and played deftly by the Principle flute of the Philharmonia Orchestra, Samuel Coles. [Music sample of Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun] ...

FORT WORTH — “The Sounds of Paris” was the title of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra’s first classical program of 2026. In ...

Writing music about water came naturally to Claude Debussy. His father was a sailor and encouraged young Claude’s imagination with stories about vast waters and exotic lands. A family visit to Cannes, ...

, with Music by Takemitsu and Debussy (Telarc CD 80694, 2008). Debussy (1862-1918) was smitten first by eastern music with the arrival, in Paris in 1889, of a Javanese Gamelan orchestra. He was ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Kirill Gerstein’s immense recording project “Music in Time of War” surveys works by artists who witnessed World War I and the Armenian genocide. By ...

On this week’s episode, we’re making the most of the last days of summer! We’ll be headed to sunny Spain, with music by Debussy, de Falla, and Ravel. Part of a larger set of orchestral pieces called ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. "I first heard Debussy's 'Clair de Lune' when I was around seven years old," says ...

Only Hershey Felder can get away with putting his name before Claude Debussy’s. Take his latest solo bio-drama at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, “Hershey Felder: A Paris Love ...

Audio will be available later today. We close a week of conversations and performances from Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, Ore., with the Premiere Rhapsodie by Claude Debussy. Clarinetist David ...

Music director Jean-Marie Zeitouni’s festival orchestra programs at this summer’s Colorado Music Festival have been ambitious to say the least. While only the opening night concert approached ...