Debussy: Text and Ideas
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To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Claude Debussy (1862-1918) the Institute of Musical Research in collaboration with Bangor University, the Royal College of Music and Gresham College present an international symposium centred on the links between Claude Debussy and the literary and visual arts. The event will focus on the works of Debussy, his texts and the ideas behind them. Each day will include a performance, ending at approximately 7pm. Delegates may book places for either one or both days.
That other part of this symposium takes place on Friday 13 April 2012.
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Professor Richard Langham Smith is a musicologist who has written on Debussy and contemporary French music in general. He read music at the ...
Dr Helen Abbott is Head of French at Bangor University, and specialises in nineteenth-century French poetry and music. She has published on Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Villiers de...
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