Music historians offer a sampling of scholarship at the turn of the century on French Baroque composer Charpentier (1643-1704). Their topics include the Italian background of his void notation and its
In recent years, interest in Rameau’s operas has grown enormously. These works are no longer regarded as peripheral by performers and audiences but are increasingly staged in the world’s major opera h
New Orleans has always captured our imagination as an exotic city in its racial ambiguity and pursuit of les bons temps. Despite its image as a place apart, the city played a key role in nineteenth-ce
