Online encounter: Debussy’s energy performed by pianist George Fu
FRIDAY NIGHT’s invitation to Fanjul&Ward, for this Friday, May 15 at 20:00 hrs (Chile time) is to the simple act of sitting and listening, to enjoy the sound and to use this moment and this energy of Debussy that comes through its music. Find the new, the transformative and get out of the comfort zone to experience new questions.
This laboratory with Claude Debussy performed by George Fu, a pianist of American Chinese origin and who currently lives in England. For this Friday’s quote, George chose Debussy’s second study book, a work with great technical and interpretive difficulty and which is permanently subject to study and research. A must-see quote in a lab of ideas, faces and feelings.
Claude Debussy in times of pandemic
In these times of pandemic, where, it seems, we have to end the current formulas and reassess our path, perhaps music can give us a “drive” for the new, for the transformation of old systems that seem obsolete.
Claude Debussy, 22, won France’s most prestigious music prize, the Rome Prize, which included a stay at the Villa Medici based at the French Academy in Rome. Debussy felt suffocated in the atmosphere of that place and at 23 says: “I am sure that the Institute will not approve it, because naturally it considers that the path it marks is the only correct one. But there’s nothing to do! I’m too in love with my freedom, too attached to my own ideas!”
Debussy loved Wagner, then had to “kill his master” and reveal that the German composers had not written it all down and sought new forms and alternatives in his music. being ridiculed by the musical establishment of the time.
He was a bold, poor young man with total clarity of his destiny or rather, clearly to accomplish all that he loved to do, what more innovative and avant-garde for our world today?
Listening to Debussy in quarantine is no coincidence, especially since the current situation seems to be a call to change, and that did, precisely, Debussy in his time, a call for transformation and change. Debussy turned the history of music, paved the way for new possibilities.
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