While trying to finish a term paper in the late 60s, I listened to a certain passage of The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian hundreds of times. It’s just part, I suppose, of my obsession with music. Debussy ...

Claude Debussy, 150th Anniversary: Enjoy an evening of Debussy favorites, including the “Children’s Corner” and “Étude 2,” played by ASU Professor of Music Walter Cosand. DETAILS >> Pre-show talk at 6 ...

His music may seem to say otherwise, but Claude Debussy came to a bitter end of an ill-tempered life begun in poverty and ended in complications from rectal cancer. Honoring the centennial of his ...

Debussy understood that a work of art, or an effort to create beauty, was always regarded by some as a personal attack. Sometimes, music speaks for itself. On “The Seduction of Claude Debussy,” while ...

There are rare sacred moments when music stops being sound and becomes light. A perfect note hangs in the air, silence breathes, and for the space of a heartbeat, the veil thins—revealing a place ...

Claude Debussy wrote a good deal of piano music through his life, apparently undeterred by his fierce critic Tchaikovsky. We hear a good example of Debussy's distinctive piano style in his Reverie, ...