In 1999, the Lilly Library of Indiana University purchased a leather-bound book of disparate works from a Brussels bookseller that includes a music treatise written (for the most part) in the unmistakable hand of Marc-Antoine Charpentier.
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Amid a long-overdue reckoning on race in the United States, Tafelmusik has reissued its 2003 album of Saint-Georges’s music with the goal of “properly centering the composer’s achievements.”
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Marcie Ray’s book presents a serious commentary on women’s status within the cultural and social hierarchy from 1701 to 1745.
Book Review: Women ‘Dangerous’ And Otherwise Onstage in 18th-Century France Read More »
Baroque flutists Stephen Schultz and Mindy Rosenfeld, harpsichordist Jory Vinikour, and gambist Alexa Haynes-Pilon combine fine-tuned precision with a dashing sense of vigor, gracefulness, and flair.
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For all their emotional reserve, these works are charming, graceful, and sensitive, the musical equivalent of a carefully displayed ankle, a subtle turn of the wrist, a glimpse of an eye behind a lacy fan.
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