It's been a long time since we got ourselves to the concert hall. Fortunately it looks like our current engagements allow us the room to get there once again next Saturday when the SSO will be doing the business with a couple of Debussy favourites. I've had a couple of stirring encounters with La Mer live, as it were, but have never had the chance to listen to Jeux in that context, so it looks like I'll be able to set right that omission.
I've been even more inspired to make sure I attend by an excellent piece on The Velvet Revolution of Claude Debussy by Alex Ross in The New Yorker. When you hear people talk of the impossibility of writing about music in any meaningful way, direct them to anything by Mr Ross. In this particular article the bit about the first five bars of Prélude à l'aprés-midi d'un Faune nails that falsehood for good.
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