Nadia and Lili Boulanger make up one of classical music’s most intriguing sibling sagas. At a time when the composing ranks were overwhelmingly dominated by men, Lili won the Prix de Rome, one of the ...

Ride the waves of La Mer—Debussy’s shimmering portrait of the sea—and then dive into the rich, romantic world of Cécile Chaminade’s Piano Sonata, a rarely heard work full of passion and lyricism. Two ...

The French composer, Claude Debussy, is known as the first impressionist composer. He was born in 1862 and is often referred to as one of the most influential composers of the time. Some of his most ...

Mel Bonis was a composer of astonishing range—hundreds of works for piano, choir, organ, chamber groups, even orchestra. Yet across all that variety, her music is unmistakably personal: lyrical, ...

It was the end of the 19th century in Europe. The Franco-Prussian war had ended, and World War I had not yet begun. Japan was open to the West. Van Gogh, Victor Hugo, Ravel, Marie Curie walked 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 ...

Musaica is a non-profit chamber music ensemble founded in the fall of 2006 by eight devoted professional musicians from the Louisiana Philharmonic, several of whom are also faculty members at Loyola ...

Every Wes Anderson film is filled with musical delights, from offbeat songs to unexpected score cues, and “The French Dispatch” is no exception. Composer Alexandre Desplat and music supervisor Randall ...