(1920) "His exposure to _____ music in general helped to mediate if not veer him away from the _____ and other ______ influences still prevalent in America then. Later, fellow composer ______ would recall that in _____, he learned the principle of dépouillement—stripping down—from his studies with ______. He came to stress simplicity, as _____ wrote: "Remove, remove, remove what isn't needed. That stuck. The leanness!!—particularly in his instrumentation, which he himself termed 'transparent'." "

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 Conducting the ensemble

 

 

From Debussy's La cathédrale engloutie an octave below...