The French Revolution

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Join us for week four of a four part series on The French Revolution. The Revolutionary Fervor unleashed by the colonists in North America seemed carried by the currents of the Atlantic to the bastion of Western Royalty . . . Europe. And in 1789, the Great French Revolution commenced.This series wi...

Into the Enlightenment, Part II: The Birth of the Symphony

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Join us for week two of this four-week series presented by Dr. Gil Harel. Central among the creations of the classical period was the genre known as "symphony." Though it would come to be a large-scale work, early examples in this style are remarkable for their brevity and Spartan instrume...