Monet Mondays, a new feature through January on CPR Classical, will explore the rich catalog of French Impressionist music and its relationship with the art that helped inspire it. Monet Mondays takes ...
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 ...
If there's one piece of trivia to know about Edgar Degas, it's that he loathed being considered an Impressionist. Yes, the man arguably most associated with the movement, who spearheaded the first ...
While most museums prohibit visitors from playing music inside exhibition spaces, the Yale University Art Gallery is enlisting the help of four musicians to help viewers understand the visual arts ...
Before our age of specialization, composers were often performers and vice versa. Among well-known composer-conductors were Mahler, Elgar, Strauss, and the late Pierre Boulez. Matthias Pintscher, a 45 ...
Joined by the Axis String Quartet, alto sax veteran Lee Konitz puts a very unique spin on pieces from French Impressionist repertoire. Claude Debussy is the album’s most prevalent composer, ...
This homage to 20th–century French Impressionist composers by alto saxophonist Lee Konitz and the Axis String Quartet might best be described as a sometimes interesting but more often overly ambitious ...
With summer only weeks away, the festival season is in full bloom. Exhibits on Impressionism and key retrospectives of noted artists also are on a busy art lover's agenda. Anchorage --A We're in ...
Santa Monica College's Emeritus Concert Band will join forces with Santa Ana College's Concert Band for a free performance ...