One hundred years ago Saturday, classical music witnessed a sea change — quite literally. On Oct. 15, 1905, French composer Claude Debussy's symphonic portrait of the sea, called "La Mer," premiered ...

Debussy's fantastical, Impressionistic vision of the Mediterranean sea is one of the great masterpieces of the symphonic literature. Charles Munch... Waves of Sound: Debussy's La Mer Waves of Sound: ...

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Approaching his final month as music director of the Houston Symphony, Hans Graf will conduct a concert featuring several of Debussy and Mendelssohn’s must popular works. Graf will welcome his ...

As sensuous and bewitching as the sea by which it’s inspired, Debussy’s La mer stands as one of the most stunning achievements in symphonic music. Acclaimed French conductor Ludovic Morlot returns to ...

The Minnesota Orchestra’s pairing of well-known works by Grieg and Debussy – specifically “La Mer” for Debussy and the piano concerto for Grieg – provides a little irony because of what Debussy ...

WEBER Freischu?tz Overture HINDEMITH Weber Metamorphosis MESSIAEN Les Offrandes Oubliées DEBUSSY La Mer Christoph König leads a programme of four works by four composers, two German and two French, ...

A century ago, Claude Debussy's symphonic tone poem "La Mer" premiered in Paris. Conductors Pierre Boulez and David Robertson talk about the subtle and impressionistic harmonies of this milestone ...

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Claude Debussy's most concentrated and brilliant orchestral work, La Mer, is one of the supreme achievements in the symphonic literature. It is a work of such imagination that it stands apart from ...