The Firelands Symphony Orchestra (FSO), under the direction of Carl Topilow, presents the Vive La France concert at 7:30 p.m., March 9, at the Sawmill Creek Convention Center, 400 Sawmill Creek Drive ...

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 ...

It has been a banner year for Martin Delemazure, the managing director of Paris-based composer agency Grande Ourse. He had seven films at the Cannes Film Festival in May featuring music by composers ...

In his new album, Amours Interdites, French pianist David Kadouch highlights music by gay composers who concealed their sexuality because it wasn't accepted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ...

Nothing was so amusing to French Composer Francis Poulenc as hearing his friends marvel at the quilt of contradictions that masked his music and his life. “I am half-monk, half-bounder,” he would say, ...

When the Sarasota Orchestra promotes its latest Discoveries concert with the title of “The French Influencers,” the organization is not referring to people making a living by bringing attention to ...

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 ...

Through most of the 19th century, any purely symphonic music such as symphonies or chamber music performed in France was largely written by German composers. French composers were focused on ballet ...