“It was not contemplated,” according to Carrol. “It was a natural. It seemed to go with it.” The two names together suggested a certain panache. And when pronounced with a Latin flavor, they sounded vaguely foreign: “Nee-na… See-mone.”“I chose the name Nina because I had alwa...
It is the sonorous syllables and their vague dream-like images that move us—just as Debussy’s eponymous composition does. Words matter. One word can be substituted for another in a poem salva veritate, but not with impunity. The opening couplet of verse XXV of Keats’s The Eve of St....
his late cat Debussy and the traffic in Chicago, which he says has been the most thrilling thing about his world tour.`Got to smile, got to perform,' he repeats as the camera clicks. His formidable second wife Gillian, (pronounced with a very hard `g') sits nearby, looking like an ...