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 ...

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 ...

Iyvone Khoo and Dr. Michael Latz's "Infinity Cube" installation is shown at the Birch Aquarium in La Jolla on April 4, 2017. Khoo and Latz have a related video work in an upcoming concert with the La ...

A few weeks ago, a new recording of Claude Debussy and Jean-Philippe Rameau works by Icelandic pianist Víkingur Ólafsson arrived in the mail courtesy of Deutsche Grammophon. I wondered at the pairing ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

PARIS (Reuters) - French composer and pianist Michel Legrand has died at 86 after a career in which he stood out for soundtracks in screen musicals with Catherine Deneuve and that won him three Oscars ...

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 ...