Whistler and Music: Ieva Jokubaviciute, piano

Published: March 4, 2004, 6:21 p.m.

This piano performance explores the influence of American expatriate artist James McNeill Whistler on the music of French composer Claude Debussy, as well as their mutual connections to Japan. Whistler borrowed the title of Frédéric Chopin’s piano nocturnes of the 1830s for his nighttime landscapes of the 1870s, which in turn inspired Debussy’s orchestral nocturnes ...