A one-act symbolist drama by Georges Jean Aubry, "The Sandman" is basically a love story about a couple brought together by the mysterious eponymous character who, at the end, disappears into a forest. I suppose it seems inevitable that Debussy (also taken with symbolism) can be felt in some of the shadowy, delicate, almost insubstantial scoring. Beautifully sensuous music which, towards the end, even had me thinking of Bernard Herrmann's sensitive moments in something like "The Magnificent Ambersons".
A one-act symbolist drama by Georges Jean Aubry, "The Sandman" is basically a love story about a couple brought together by the mysterious eponymous character who, at the end, disappears into a forest. I suppose it seems inevitable that Debussy (also taken with symbolism) can be felt in some of the shadowy, delicate, almost insubstantial scoring. Beautifully sensuous music which, towards the end, even had me thinking of Bernard Herrmann's sensitive moments in something like "The Magnificent Ambersons".
Is this another “ Sandman Story ?”