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 ...

Debussy: Le Martyre de Saint Sebastian (Sylvia McNair, Ann Murray, Nathalie Stutzmann, vocal soloists; Leslie Caron, narrator; London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Michael Tilson Thomas ...

The fact that Debussy began to lose enthusiasm for Maude Allen’s “danced legend”, Khamma, is amply demonstrated by the uneven score he wrote for it, though there are telling foretastes of ...