1. Week 8 Debussy and the 21st Century
Sound and (Con)Fusion

2. Achille-Claude Debussy
b. August 22, 1862
d. March 25,1918

3. As student at the Conservatory

4. Nadedja von Meck’s
Trio in Russia in 1880 :
P. Danilchenko (violin),
Ladislas Pachulsky (Cello)
Debussy (piano)

5. Portrait by Marcel Baschet,
1884

6. 1885, in
Rome at
Villa Medici, outlined in
yellow box and with white jacket

7. Portrait by Marcel Baschet,
1884

8. With first wife,
Marie Rosalie 'Lilly' TEXIER,
1873 to 1932

9. Emma Bardac ( )
in 1903

10. Chouchou (Claude-Emma Debussy, 1905-19)

12. Debussy with Stravinsky;
With Eric Satie

13. Osvaldo Golijov (b. 1960)

14. John Coolidge Adams (1947– )

15. Conducting LA Philharmonic; Thomas Gould, violinist

16. With his wife,
Deborah O’Grady

17. John Adams with
Attacca Quartet

18. John Luther Adams (b. 1952). The Wind in High Places

19. John cooking their Sunday
breakfast in Harlem apartment
Cynthia (Cindy) Adams

20. The Wind in High Places
Above Sunset Pass
Maclaren Summit
Looking Toward Hope

21. 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.

22. JACK Quartet: Chris Otto, Ari Streisfeld, violins;
John Pickford Richards, viola; Kevin McFarland, cello

23. JACK Quartet

24. violinists Austin Wulliman, Chris Otto, violist John Richards, and cellist Jay Campbell.

25. Afiara Quartet: Valerie Li, violin; Timothy Kantor, violin;
Eric Wong, viola; Adrian Fung, cello