#debussy
This visualization attempts to capture the mood of Claude Debussy’s best-known composition, Clair de Lune (moonlight in French). The piece was published in 1905 as the third of four movements in the composer’s Suite Bergamasque, and unlike the other parts of this work, Clair is quiet, contemplative, and slightly melancholy, evoking the feeling of a solitary walk through a moonlit garden.
The visuals were composed like a nature documentary, with clean cuts and a mostly stationary virtual camera. The viewer follows the Sun throughout a lunar day, seeing sunrises and then sunsets over prominent features on the Moon. The sprawling ray system surrounding Copernicus crater, for example, is revealed beneath receding shadows at sunrise and later slips back into darkness as night encroaches.
The visualization was created to accompany a performance of Clair de Lune by the National Symphony Orchestra Pops, led by conductor Emil de Cou, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on June 1 and 2, 2018, as part of a celebration of NASA’s 60th anniversary.
The visualization uses a digital 3D model of the Moon built from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter global elevation maps and image mosaics. The lighting is derived from actual Sun angles during lunar days in 2018.
This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=4655
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Ember Gleams - Piano Music 9 {Aug 30, 2016}
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“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.” - Jacob Portman
Playing “Clair De Lune” on launchpad (color change in middle)
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Happy 154th Birthday Debussy!
From a conversation between Ernest Guiraud and Debussy, Debussy: Volume 1, 1862-1902: His Life and Mind (by Edward Lockspeiser)
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On Sunday afternoon of June 2nd, 1912, the influential French critic Louis Laloy invited Debussy, his wife, and Stravinsky to his home for a private reading of the first part of the not-quite-finished score for Le Sacre du Printemps. Laloy recalled the event in his memoirs:
“Debussy agreed to play the bass. Stravinsky asked if he could take his collar off. His sight was not improved by his glasses, and pointing his nose to the keyboard and sometimes humming a part that had been omitted from the arrangement, he led into a welter of sound the supple, agile hands of his friend. Debussy followed without a hitch and seemed to make light of the difficulty. When they had finished there was no question of embracing, nor even of compliments. We were dumbfounded, overwhelmed by this hurricane which had come from the depths of the ages and which had taken life by the roots.”
Igor Stravinsky and Claude Debussy in the latter’s apartment in the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, Paris; photo by Erik Satie, June 1910. Stravinsky and Debussy performed a four-hand piano arrangement of Part I of The Rite of Spring for a private audience in June of 1912.
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TheProgramme Officiel des Ballets Russes, Mai-Juin 1912 featuring the costume design for Vaslav Nijinsky’s Faun in L’Après Midi d’un Faune, by Léon Bakst.
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Philippe Bernold & Denis Pascal
24 Mayıs 2022 Salı, 20:00
CSO Yeni Konser Salonu
- Bach | Flüt Piyano Sonatı BWV 1035
- Mozart | Keman Piyano Sonatı KV301*
- Schubert | La Belle Meunière
- Debussy | Syrinx
- Franck | Keman Piyano Sonatı*
*Flüt Piyano Uyarlaması
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The cover of the 1st edition of Debussy’s La Mer in 1905, Hokusai’s print illustrating one of the masterpieces of orchestral impressionism. But which recordings smell of the sea, the salt spray, the dialogue of wind and waves?
