In the wake of the Council of Trent, as the Church of the Counter-Reformation era was striving to shape new cultural movements able to massively revive popular faith, the city of Rome was turned into ...

The French pieces at the National Gallery of Art show the progression of art in France during the period of the French Revolution, around the 18th and 19th centuries. It begins with lesser-known ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...