Monet Mondays, a new feature through January on CPR Classical, will explore the rich catalog of French Impressionist music and its relationship with the art that helped inspire it. Monet Mondays takes ...

Impressionism in art is fairly easy to describe: thin brush strokes, obscured edges, the play of light. Impressionism in music is harder to articulate. Composer Claude Debussy translated visual ...

If there's one piece of trivia to know about Edgar Degas, it's that he loathed being considered an Impressionist. Yes, the man arguably most associated with the movement, who spearheaded the first ...

While most museums prohibit visitors from playing music inside exhibition spaces, the Yale University Art Gallery is enlisting the help of four musicians to help viewers understand the visual arts ...

Before our age of specialization, composers were often performers and vice versa. Among well-known composer-conductors were Mahler, Elgar, Strauss, and the late Pierre Boulez. Matthias Pintscher, a 45 ...

He was catlike and solitary, as he was artistic and amorous. . . . Feline . . . is the adjective most used to suggest his walk, his manner, his particular kind of acrid wit, his playfulness, his sulks ...

With summer only weeks away, the festival season is in full bloom. Exhibits on Impressionism and key retrospectives of noted artists also are on a busy art lover's agenda. Anchorage --A We're in ...

Next on Music Week, a look at how a specific movement in art and music might be an especially good fit for games. Despite being considered the most important composer in the impressionist movement, ...

Impression: a telling image impressed on the senses or the mind; an often indistinct or imprecise notion or remembrance; an immediate psychical effect of sensory stimulus. Impressionist art? Of course ...