Impressionism in art is fairly easy to describe: thin brush strokes, obscured edges, the play of light. Impressionism in music is harder to articulate. Composer Claude Debussy translated visual ...

Claude Monet influenced more than just other painters. Composers began to incorporate impressionism into their music.The romantic era of Brahms went out the door. And in came French composer Claude ...

On Thursday, the Goodman Theatre announced that Hershey Felder will make his debut there this spring. The pianist, actor and playwright will present the Chicago premiere of “A Paris Love Story,” a ...

The French composer, Claude Debussy, is known as the first impressionist composer. He was born in 1862 and is often referred to as one of the most influential composers of the time. Some of his most ...

Iyvone Khoo and Dr. Michael Latz's "Infinity Cube" installation is shown at the Birch Aquarium in La Jolla on April 4, 2017. Khoo and Latz have a related video work in an upcoming concert with the La ...

Eight years ago, at a Philharmonic-Symphony concert in Manhattan’s Carnegie Hall, Arturo Toscanini introduced to the U. S. an unpretentious composition by a celebrated French composer. The piece was ...

French impressionist composers had an odd obsession with Edgar Allan Poe. Years after the author’s death in 1849, seminal composers like Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Andre Caplet remained fixated ...

It's been a good week for brainy, idiosyncratic concerts in Washington. On Saturday, pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard made the disparate works of Berg, Liszt, Debussy and Ligeti seem part of the same ...