French art song — melodie — has an insidious emotional power infectious to the performer and irresistible to the listener. One such work, “Tristesse,” Gabriel Fauré’s 1838 setting of Théophile Gautier ...

Mary Grace Ellerbee, a freelance collaborative pianist from Zachary, is the first recipient of the Everett G. Powers Fund for Creativity Award, the Arts Council of Baton Rouge announced Jan. 30.

LONDON (Reuters) - French soprano Natalie Dessay gave a recent recital in London that one critic called "sublime" and her latest CD of French art songs has been well received, but she says her fans ...

Though it is an acceptable trick for most classical vocalists to sacrifice word clarity for musical expression, it is not the case for the art songs of late 19th-century French composers like Claude ...