A musical time capsule is unearthed in provincial France.

The Charente summer home of soprano Marthe Bailloux and her military husband yields a trove of noteworthy artifacts from France’s “Golden Age” of art and music. Sometimes the most incredible adventures are put in motion purely by happenstance. This is certainly the case with Alistair Kendry and Mary Fisher, two English creative artists who decided […]

Fresh takes on French children’s ballets (Debussy, Ravel, Roussel, Schmitt).

Bruno Belthoise and Grégoire Pont are revitalizing the stories of French children’s ballets more than a century after their creation. It’s interesting to note that four of the most important composers from France’s “Golden Age” each wrote music for ballet productions based on children’s topics. Not only that, the music for all four of them […]