Mahler’s “Ninth Symphony” featured on tonight’s “Evening Concert” from San Francisco
The musical interval of the descending second (or step) is a main musical motif in Mahler's Ninth....
Mahler’s “9th Symphony” is featured on the “Los Angeles Philharmonic” tonight at 7:00
Also on the program Debussy's "La Mer" (The Sea).
Falla’s “Nights in the Gardens of Spain” and Debussy’s “La mer” tonight
Falla didn't call it a piano concerto, "it" being his "Nights in the Gardens of Spain"....Debussy didn't call "La Mer" a symphony as it more rightly can be classified as a Symphonic poem.
The Vienna Philharmonic featured on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
Works by Mussorgsky, Debussy and Wagner..."pictorial' music, so to speak.....
Susanna Mälkki conducts Debussy’s “La Mer” (The Sea) on tonight’s “Evening Concert”
While Debussy's "La Mer" (symphonic poem in three sections) would appear to be programmatic (music describing something) he felt otherwise about the work.....it was (paraphrasing Hanslick) "Music for Music's sake".