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Video: Music of the Baroque Shares a Louis XIV-Era Take on the Christmas Antiphon

As part of an Impromptu of secular and devotional holiday music from around the world, conductor Patrick Dupré Quigley led Music of the Baroque and organist Stephen Alltop in a performance of this lesser-known French Baroque Christmas song, 'Hodie Christus natus est' by Louis-Nicolas Clérambault.

Notre Dame Cathedral to miss first Christmas in centuries

As the lights stay dim in the once-invincible 855-year-old Paris landmark, officials are trying hard to focus on the immediate task of keeping Notre Dame alive in exile.

The Earliest Opera Is Over 800 Years Old… And It Was Written By a Woman

The extraordinary story of Hildegard von Bingen.

The One Classical Album That Almost Caused Cuban Musician Roberto Fonseca to Quit Playing the Piano

"In Cuba you will find any type of music: mariachi, heavy metal, dubstep, or even free jazz... It's a mystery — it's something magical that you will find there in any type of music."

Chiara String Quartet Plays Complete Bartók Quartets Completely By Heart

"Once we have gotten over the initial hump of memorizing, we've found it allow us to improvise as a group in a much more agile way."