Not only does La Porte County Symphony Orchestra’s latest concert harken to the history of French repertoire but the show features an instrument with much history. Meg Rodgers, featured performer on ...

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There’s something about Debussy’s music that lends itself to the harp, especially that he used the instrument in all his late orchestral works. The one piece he specifically wrote for the harp, Danses ...

French composer Claude Debussy was one of most influential composers of the late nineteenth century. Danses sacrée et profane (Sacred and Profane Dances) was written in 1904 to showcase Pleyel harp, a ...

The Mercury Quartet, with Loré Lixenberg (mezzo-soprano), flautist Ana de la Vega and Claire Iselin, harp. Claude Debussy's 'Flots, palmes, sable' for piano, harp and soprano; Dobromila Jaskot's ...

First, we'll hear the Canadian clarinetist James Campbell and pianist Leonard Hokanson play two short pieces by Debussy: The "Petite Piece" and the "Girl with the Flaxen Hair" (the latter originally ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. When New York’s Plaza Hotel reopened its classic Palm Court for high tea ...

, 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 ...