ROMANCE IS IN THE AIR AT SSO CONCERT.(Life and Arts)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: February 1, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

Byline: PHILIPPA KIRALY Special to the P-I

In 1911, Debussy wrote the music for a play on St. Sebastian, replete with mysticism, paganism, eroticism, religious visions and an execution by arrow. The play was a disaster, but a colleague of Debussy's later formed some of the incidental music into a symphonic suite, Fragments from "Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien." The Seattle Symphony programmed it as part of Thursday night's concert at Benaroya Hall.

"Le Martyre" is unlike anything else Debussy wrote. It consists of four pieces with titles which could appropriately be ...

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