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Evening Music

Tuesday, August 22, 2006
  • (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gallettas_pics/71031707/" target="_blank">Ange's Photos</a>/flickr)
    Nothing more musical than a sunset. Ange's Photos/flickr

    The Reluctant Impressionist

    Claude Debussy — born on this date in 1862 — hated the label "impressionist"; in fact, he had his own word to describe critics who used the term: "imbeciles." Evening Music celebrates the maverick composer all week long; tonight brings us pianist Paul Jacobs and the second set of Debussy's "Images."

    Later in the evening, it's Anton Bruckner's ode to Wagner, his Symphony No. 3 (George Szell conducts the Staatskapelle Dresden). Martha Argerich brings her piano chops to Manuel De Falla's "Nights in the Gardens of Spain" with the Paris Orchestra; we'll also hear spanish-themed works by Gaspar Cassadó, Isaac Albeniz, and that most popular of medieval composers, Anonymous.

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