Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 2 pm
Debussy & Matisse: Creating New Colors

Debussy: Images pour orchestre

Over the summer of 1905, Henri Matisse and André Derain met in a small French Mediterranean fishing village, mere miles from the border of Spain. In just a few weeks of work, the pair pioneered Fauvism, a radiant, technicolor style of art that influenced a small group of their French contemporaries known as les Fauves (“the beasts”). That same year, Claude Debussy started writing his orchestral Images, impressionistic pieces that brought their own fanciful experiments in color and texture.

Leon Botstein conductor