Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

The concert is me.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

-- Born in 1685 in Eisenach

Illness, insanity, and death were the dark angels that kept watch over my cradle.

-- Edvard Munch

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way.

-- Georgia O'Keeffe

Music is the silence between the notes.

-- Born in France in 1862, Claude Debussy opened new frontiers of harmony and timbre that reshaped Western music. Works like Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune, La mer, and his Preludes for piano freed French music from German Romantic dominance and profoundly influenced twentieth-century composers. His sole completed opera, Pelleas et Melisande, offered a radical alternative to Wagnerian music drama. Though he rejected the label, he

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

-- Born in France in 1862, Claude Debussy opened new frontiers of harmony and timbre that reshaped Western music. Works like Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune, La mer, and his Preludes for piano freed French music from German Romantic dominance and profoundly influenced twentieth-century composers. His sole completed opera, Pelleas et Melisande, offered a radical alternative to Wagnerian music drama. Though he rejected the label, he

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

-- Born in Salzburg in 1756