Composer Claude Debussy. Still, "Children’s Corner" remains a reminder of the essence of childhood, in all its innocence and wonder. Pianist Kenny Broberg treated listeners to the playful ...

Chouchou, who would soon turn 11, looks at the camera from under a floppy white hat with a quizzical, intelligent gaze; Debussy looks ill and his darkly circled eyes speak of a man close to the limits ...

A sweet section of the play has Debussy playing a section of “Children’s Corner,” which he wrote for ChouChou. More bittersweet is how Debussy fought a long battle with colon cancer, staying ...

Debussy dedicated his 1908 cycle Children's Corner to his five-year old daughter, writing in his dedication: "To my beloved little Chouchou, with the tender excuses of her father for that which ...

March Music Moderne, Portland's annual quirky festival of new music, will celebrate Claude Debussy this year with a series of events inspired by the influential French composer, who died 100 years ...

Born in the nineteenth century, Debussy grew up in north-central France. His father worked in a china shop, and his mother was a seamstress. At the age of ten, he displayed enough musical prowess ...

100 years ago, today, Claude Debussy, the poster boy gateway-composer from romanticism to modernism, died. He left us an œuvre much of which charms us, but also still has the power to fluster us.

Debussy holds the chord, it dies away and then the strangest chord appears — the only home chord of the piece. "It's home," Kapilow says, "but it hasn't resolved.