The birthplace of jazz

New Orleans: the birthplace of jazz. Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of a great American city during their trials.

The sea

No composer renders the feel of the sea more successfully than Debussy: not only in the 3-movement La Mer, but also in his Nocturnes for orchestra, and in his piano Preludes. Though he employs an orchestra that virtually matches Wagner's, the tonal palette is uniquely his. Once Debussy heard a Javanese gamelan at the Paris Exposition of 1889, music was never the same. The technique of an interplay of color for its own sake remains his enduring legacy.