In 1976 there were two attempts to ‘realize’ the music by the Chilean composer, Juan Allende-Blin, and another version by two Yale University musicologists, C. Abbate and R. Kyr. Likewise, Lockspeiser complained that a particularly esteemed study, Leon Vallas’ Claude Debussy et son temps (1932), had been concerned primarily with establishing Debussy as a national composer who liberated French music from German domination. File T32/1, 095/2. See also Diane Rosenfeldt, Ken Russell: a guide to references and resources (Boston, 1978). and for what means? At the same time, continues Botstein, ‘in Debussy's view, music had to move away from descriptive naturalism, the subordination of music to a narrative and a linguistically evident didactic purpose’ (p. 147). When Ken Russell was working on his series of short films about composers for the BBC, including Elgar, Delibes, and this one about Debussy, it was hard to see that his style would evolve into the excesses of Tommy and The Lair of the White Worm. Russell motif, but here both plots (Debussy, the film) Quoted in Baxter, An Appalling Talent, p. 29. Mobile site. Twenty-five years later, Rossetti reworked the subject in a painting (shown in Russell's film), which depicted the celestial female in Paradise, stars glittering in her hair, looking down at her grieving earthly lover, occupying a panel in the lower quarter of the painting. The portrait of Rossetti, like so many of Russell's other artists, reveals a man caught in the crossfire between his idealization of life and love and his bitter confrontations with life's harsher realities. In 1897, after discovering evidence of one of Debussy's infidelities, Gaby unsuccessfully attempted suicide. Debussy took his text from Gabriel Sarrazin's prose translation of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's poem, written in 1847. In his analysis of Russell's films, Robert Phillip Kolker further extrapolates this strategy: ‘It is a conflict in which no one wins, not the subject, not his contemporary world, not the popular myth, and certainly not the audience who come to a biographical film with certain expectations’. * BBC Written Archives, Reading, File T32/1, 095/2. Oliver Reed owns the screen in what must have been a bit of a shock for the TV viewing public at the time. His Composers on Film: studies in musical biography will be published by Yale University Press in April 2005. The Debussy Film is more formally adventurous than Elgar with its mixture of "film about Debussy" and "making of a film about Debussy". However, according to Modern World Drama: an encyclopedia (New York, 1972), the play was written four years later, in 1908. For Oliver to have played a homosexual role in those days would have been a bold stroke. character and I always let the character of the person or ‘This kind of thing would be much more effective if the people concerned were suggested rather than literally seen’, wrote Swallow in a memo to the Head of Films, dated 7 April 1959 (BBC Written Archives, Reading, File T32/1, 001/1).
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