Score Salon:
Tim Huling on Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun"

May 7, 2001 at Bad Animals

Image reproduced through special permission from Dover Publications

Composer Tim Huling moderated a discussion on Claude Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun." A programmatic piece based on Stephane Mallarme's erotic poem, Debussy's landmark 1894 orchestral work - with its rich harmonies predating jazz, inventive instrumental colorization, and seemingly static thematic development - all but ushered in the 20th century.

New York Times critic Harold C. Shonberg proclaims that "Faun has a place in musical history comparable to the Eroica Symphony and Monteverdi's Orfeo. Each of those epochal works made it clear that the old rules no longer applied."

Moderator Tim Huling is a Seattle composer who has written music for film, television, and multimedia productions. A Berklee College of Music graduate, Tim has worked as an orchestrator, computer music technician/synthesist, booth supervisor, and copyist on films such as Thomas & The Magic Railroad, IMAX’s Cyberworld 3D, Rennie’s Landing, Moonglow,and locally produced Shag Carpet Sunset, among others.

Capitol Music Center is the official sponsor of the SCA Monthly Score Salon.

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