Week 8 Debussy and the 21st Century Sound and (Con)Fusion
Achille-Claude Debussy b. August 22, 1862 d. March 25,1918
As student at the Conservatory
Nadedja von Meck’s Trio in Russia in 1880 : P. Danilchenko (violin), Ladislas Pachulsky (Cello) Debussy (piano)
Portrait by Marcel Baschet, 1884
1885, in Rome at Villa Medici, outlined in yellow box and with white jacket
Portrait by Marcel Baschet, 1884
With first wife, Marie Rosalie 'Lilly' TEXIER, 1873 to 1932
Emma Bardac (1862-1934) in 1903
Chouchou (Claude-Emma Debussy, 1905-19)
Debussy with Stravinsky; With Eric Satie
Osvaldo Golijov (b. 1960)
John Coolidge Adams (1947– )
Conducting LA Philharmonic; Thomas Gould, violinist
With his wife, Deborah O’Grady
John Adams with Attacca Quartet
John Luther Adams (b. 1952). The Wind in High Places
John cooking their Sunday breakfast in Harlem apartment Cynthia (Cindy) Adams
The Wind in High Places Above Sunset Pass Maclaren Summit Looking Toward Hope
Gordon Brooks Wright (1934-2007); inspiration for Luther Adams’s The Wind in High Places. He was an environmentalist, a composer, and a professor of music at the University of Alaska.
JACK Quartet: Chris Otto, Ari Streisfeld, violins; John Pickford Richards, viola; Kevin McFarland, cello
JACK Quartet
violinists Austin Wulliman, Chris Otto, violist John Richards, and cellist Jay Campbell.
Afiara Quartet: Valerie Li, violin; Timothy Kantor, violin; Eric Wong, viola; Adrian Fung, cello