If you ever met Debussy and Ravel together...

[mikkeljs]

Isn´t it scary that these to people have been sitting together on cafees in Paris? It would have been looked exactly like a Trinity film!

I think more and more that Debussy and Ravel really IS Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill.   

[karlhenning]

Well, Debussy, sure;  if I saw him seated at a café, I'd go instead to the café across the boulevard.

[The new erato]

Well, Debussy, sure;  if I saw him seated at a café, I'd go instead to the café across the boulevard.

Shouldn't you rather ask him if he knew the way to San Jose?

[karlhenning]

Shouldn't you rather ask him if he knew the way to San Jose?

I'd say to him, Claude-Achille, L.A. is a great big freeway . . . .

[Wanderer]

I'm sure there are far worse people one could run into at a café. 

[karlhenning]

As ever, Tasos takes the philosophical approach . . . .

[orbital]

I'm sure there are far worse people one could run into at a café. 

Of course.

[greg]

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=Hv3&q=hitler+family+guy&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=1#

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=Hv3&q=hitler+family+guy&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv&oi=property_suggestions&resnum=0&ct=property-revision&cd=1#


and the funniest:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2643811254034277372&ei=QsHeSIybEJLAqALF3-ylCw&q=hitler+family+guy+gym&vt=lf&hl=en

i'll have to post that on the funny youtube videos thread

[M forever]

Well, Debussy, sure;  if I saw him seated at a café, I'd go instead to the café across the boulevard.

Why? Would you be afraid you could be contaminated by some of his genius?

[karlhenning]

Yes, yes; that must be it.

[Wanderer]

Of course.

-"Quick! Have his autograph and call the police!"

[Mirror Image]

Isn´t it scary that these to people have been sitting together on cafees in Paris? It would have been looked exactly like a Trinity film!

I think more and more that Debussy and Ravel really IS Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill.   

Debussy and Ravel started off as friends and did many things together, like hangout at cafes, but their friendship soured once the press started spreading their propaganda stories like Who is the better composer? or Who influenced who? I think the two still, even though they drifted apart, had tremendous respect for each other. I wonder if Villa-Lobos ever met Ravel or Debussy? I know Stravinsky made friends with both composers as there are pictures of him with the two.

Debussy and Ravel are always linked together, but honestly the two composers couldn't be more different. Debussy pioneered musical Impressionism and Ravel refined it and imbued it with a more classical form, but also, a razor-sharp instrumental precision.

[Joe Barron]

Quick quiz: Spot the echinus,  spot the abacus, spot the architrave:

[karlhenning]

Gosh, had forgotten all about this post . . . .

[karlhenning]

If you ever met Debussy and Ravel together...on the road, drown them.