Claude Debussy

One is the scene at the piano where she's playing... she's playing Beethoven, a fairly dark, you know, one of our favorites from the man.

And then Dracula comes in and it's this fascinating idea that his influence, she starts playing like Debussy, although I don't, I mean, it's not actually, I don't think a classic composer, I think it's something else.

But I love this moment where the idea of sort of more modern art with the tones becoming more avant-garde, I think it's a fascinating I think it's a standalone scene in a in a in a movie of its time that really talks about you know, art having this essence and whatever.

Anyway, it's very sweet.

The Spirit of Eden was inspired by Miles Davis' In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew.

It was inspired by Bela Bartok and Claude Debussy.

The songs are like unhurried and they're sprawling and they are seemingly improvised at times, but you get this overwhelming sense of space and time and place, more so in Spirit of Eden than Laughingstock.

Laughingstock is like a tighter version of Spirit of Eden.

And so there's that wonderful story, you know, of Mozart who played a note with his nose to fool Haydn.

And Debussy writes about that in his preface to his etudes.

He says, I deliberately haven't written any fingerings in my etudes because in the case of Mozart, I mean, I'm paraphrasing it, but basically he says, you know, if you have to play with your nose, then why not?

Yeah, yeah.

Welcome to A Little Light Music, Banks Radio's regular Thursday evening classical music hour.

We have two short pieces by Beethoven in this evening's programme, some Debussy, a masterpiece of Renaissance English choral music, we'll come to that later, a bit of Bach, and even Rossini gets in there just at the end.

So quite a varied programme.

And we never know, we might even have time for some genuine British-like music.

So, our second piece this evening is also a march.

A bit unusual, we don't usually start a programme with two marches, but this is rather different.

This is by Debussy, and it's a Scottish march.

It doesn't sound much like a march, I have to say.

Piano music of CloudWC Now.

This is from Images, book one, number one.

Reflects Dan's Lou.

Performed by pianist Georges Plutemarker.

so so Thank you.

so Thank you.

so so you Georges Plutemaker was at the piano performing Images, book one, number one,

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I would spend my evenings writing songs or playing gigs.

And every afternoon, I would welcome six-year-olds and 12-year-olds and 17-year-olds and 50-year-olds into my studio apartment to play quarter notes and octaves and jazz standards and Debussy on my little electric keyboard three feet from my bed.

It was a shoddy operation, but also it was very cool because one moment I would be so upset about the gig that I'd wanted so much that I didn't get.

And the next moment I would be listening to an eight-year-old tell me about her adorable pet dog.

I would spend my evenings writing songs or playing gigs.

And every afternoon, I would welcome six-year-olds and 12-year-olds and 17-year-olds and 50-year-olds into my studio apartment to play quarter notes and octaves and jazz standards and Debussy on my little electric keyboard three feet from my bed.

It was a shoddy operation, but also it was very cool because one moment I would be so upset about the gig that I'd wanted so much that I didn't get.

And the next moment I would be listening to an eight-year-old tell me about her adorable pet dog.

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