Music For Bastille Day (NPR)
From NPR News:
Morning Edition
July 14, 2009
It's Bastille Day, which marks the beginning of the French Revolution and the beginning of the end of French royalty.
Along with all the ruckus and rioting that accompanied the revolution, commentator Miles Hoffman says there was also music in the air.
Drop in to any concert hall or ballroom and you could have heard plenty of Italian and French opera, choral music and orchestras. But most of the significant music of the day, Hoffman says, was not written by the French.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106488903
Morning Edition
July 14, 2009
It's Bastille Day, which marks the beginning of the French Revolution and the beginning of the end of French royalty.
Along with all the ruckus and rioting that accompanied the revolution, commentator Miles Hoffman says there was also music in the air.
Drop in to any concert hall or ballroom and you could have heard plenty of Italian and French opera, choral music and orchestras. But most of the significant music of the day, Hoffman says, was not written by the French.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106488903
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