Love and Libations a French Women Composer’s program
Love and Libations a French Women Composer’s program
La Donna Musicale explores the distinctive contributions of Parisian women composers to the French Baroque and Rococo secular genres of airs sérieux: serious songs with subjects such as love, politics, and pastoral scenes, and airs à boire: drinking songs to make merry with libations such as wine. These song forms celebrate passionate longing and self-indulgent inebriation. Our featured composer […]