RULES are not for artists?

Works of art make rules, but rules do not make works of art.

That´s not my own quote, I wish I was that intelligent…

It´s from one of my idols. A person who took the traditions before him, studied them deeply, digested them, and came out with a new revolutionary musical language that influenced the course of music ever after.

And he even has the first name as I do!

Although it´s the French version of my name, to be exact.

The great Claude Debussy was born on the 22nd of August of 1862 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye (boy is that hard to write when you´re not a French speaker…). So we´re now in his anniversary week, so to say.

Debussy opened so much in me, musically and personally. Through the years I´ve studied him exhaustively, reading all the biographies and treatises on his music that I could find. I became obsessed with his music.

So obsessed, that I embarked on an ambitious project of recording ALL of his piano music. I´ve completed two-thirds of it by now, so the project is still ongoing.

To commemorate this great great amazing incredible musical figure and man, I´m giving away one copy of one of my favorite albums among the ones I´ve recorded.

And I´m only doing it among you, the subscribers of this newsletter.

This Saturday afternoon, that means, tomorrow, I´m going to put all your e-mails into an automatic drawing lot, and I´ll immediately contact the person who has won this hand-signed copy to ask for shipping details.

By the way, out of the 80 copies of my album Suite Latinoamericana that I recovered last week and put on sale, I sold 79 as of yesterday, with only one copy remaining.

Thanks to everyone for your feedback and interest! Most of the albums (except the order made in the last two days) have already been shipped and will arrive shortly to you.

And one last thing: thanks to all of you who read and commented my e-mails. I get many many replies every day and unfortunately, I can´t reply or even read them all every time, but I do my best with the little spare time I´ve got.

Have a great day, and good luck on the draw!

Claudio.

P.D. If you want to buy the very last copy of Suite Latinoamericana, I´ll leave the link here just for today: CLICK HERE.