Known as the "red priest" because of his hair color and his membership in the clergy, Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) was the most original and influential Italian composer of his generation. He wrote ...

FROM ELEVATOR muzak and call-centre hold-music to TV and film soundtracks, “The Four Seasons” by Antonio Vivaldi supplies an inescapable backdrop to everyday life. Yet these ubiquitous earworms have a ...

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons are four violin concertos depicting the seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. They are some of the most extravagant examples of music that tells a story (“program music ...

The great Baroque composer used music to paint an idyllic country scene and gave us a timeless work of art. The leaves turn golden, the mornings are crisp, you turn the heating on for the first time ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Antonio Vivaldi wrote more than 500 concertos. Today, most people know four of them. But those four — commonly known as “The Four Seasons” — have become part of our cultural fabric. They may not even ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Let us not forget that Herbert von Karajan used to perform Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with the Berlin Philharmonic.

In the middle of winter, Dallas Chamber Symphony’s string musicians bring all four seasons to life with a concert featuring Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons on February 8 at Moody Performance Hall ...

WORCESTER — Antonio Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" — four violin concertos depicting the different seasons of the year beginning with spring and ending with winter — was a revolutionary work when it was ...

Vivaldi’s masterwork, forgotten after his death, found new popularity when it was co-opted by Italian nationalists. By Phil Hebblethwaite At the end of the Second World War, the Italian conductor ...

NEW YORK — Indie production company Mechaniks is developing an Antonio Vivaldi biopic based on a script by journalist Jeffrey Freedman, who has spent two decades researching the eccentric 18th century ...

The tree-lined Mall in Central Park was meant for music. Since the Mall’s first bandstand opened in 1862, millions of visitors have spent summer evenings under the elms enjoying a free concert series ...