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This is a collection of program notes, lectures and other writings by Dr. Laurence R. Taylor (1937-2004). Most of them were written for the Princeton Symphony and Opera Festival of New Jersey but some were for the Newtown Chamber Orchestra and Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra as well as some recitals. I am trying to get these online as fast as possible. There will be some strange formatting. Whenever you see a phrase in ALL CAPS he meant italics. Somehow pressing that little i button was too much trouble :) I will edit them to make that change when time allows. Suggestions are also welcome. Also you will find that LRT used British orthography even though he lived most of his life in New Jersey. Those spellings will remain since in his words "[I have had a] Close lifelong with British musical life – with annual return visits to refresh the soul by rejoining British friends, and drinking in a wide range of musical life there."


You may reprint any of the materials posted here for no charge as long as credit is given in the printed material to Laurence R. Taylor. I'd be delighted to receive a copy too.

Gene De Lisa

Saturday, February 5, 2000

Debussy : “Clair de Lune”

“Clair de Lune”

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Best known in its original guise as a piece for solo piano (a movement from the early Suite Bergamasque of 1889), “Clair de Lune” (“Moonlight”) is probably the best-known and most
often-performed work of Claude Debussy. Full of rapt silence and nocturnal radiance, it is the sort of atmospheric tone painting which links the name of Debussy with the French Impressionist painters of those years at the end of the 19th century, sharing with them an emphasis upon texture, shading and emotional subtlety.

GPYO concert

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