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Composers as Works of Art

Debussy’s “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun” and Klimt’s “The Maiden” 

Each of Debussy’s notes a delicacy, a dream.  Each of Klimt’s flowers, faces a desire to be touched.  Spiral after spiral on the maiden’s dress spinning round and down into the deepest part of ourselves. Desire? Fertility? Cosmos? Earth? Debussy begins with a low breathy flute. Pan’s seductive instrument rises and falls, directionless. Angelic harp […]