It is a shame that Washingtonians had to wait for the sesquicentennial of Claude Debussy's birth to hear a local concert of the composer's incidental music for the mystery play "Le martyre de ...

Claude Debussy’s “Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien” is vast and over-the-top, an idiosyncratic spectacle, to be sure — quite strange and fabulously beautiful. If you think of Debussy as ...