Bastille Day is a BIG occasion in France – it commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison, contributing to the start of the French Revolution. The dramatic historic event affected musicians, too, ...

A flutist who also plays the bagpipes is a rarity, as is playing the recorder, flute and bagpipes in one concert. Francois Lazarevitch did it beautifully Monday in the last of the French Embassy's ...

TENET Vocal Artists will present a serene candlelit series featuring French Baroque music at Brick Presbyterian Church, ...

Goethe said that architecture is “frozen music” and one can see that in Versailles. The palace’s crystal chandeliers, cherubs and gilt ornamentation are the visual manifestation of the same French ...

Performances in N.Y.C. William Christie, who is being feted for his 80th birthday, planted seeds in fallow grounds that brought forth baroque splendors — both figuratively and literally. William ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Chatham Baroque's Andrew Fouts (violin), ...

In no other age did music and politics converge as successfully as they did under the reign of Louis XIV. Throughout his lengthy reign, 1661 to 1715, the Sun King systematically exploited cultural ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — The rap against French baroque music is that it's a good way to empty out your concert hall. Aston Magna defied the gods of the box office Saturday night with an entire program ...

Last year the Arizona Early Music Society hosted Kathryn Mueller and Kristen Watson, a duo of sopranos, in an intimate recital. The two longtime friends had so much fun that they decided to parlay the ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. The springtime equivalent of Santa Fe Pro Musica’s long-running Baroque Christmas concert series is a pair of ...

Nicholas Garza performs as Orphée during a dress rehearsal of American Baroque Opera Co. production of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's opera "La descent d'Orphée aux enfers" at the Sammons Center for the ...

The music of Bach, heart-rendingly emotional but also obedient to musical forms like the fugue, reflects the austere Lutheran culture in which it was written. One hears sunny Italy in Vivaldi’s ...