William Lincoln Christie (born December 19, 1944) is a conductor and harpsichordist. December 19 is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... A conductors score and batons Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. ... Harpsichord in Flemish style; for more info, click the image. ...

He was born in Buffalo, New York, and studied art history at Harvard and music at Yale. His teachers included Ralph Kirkpatrick and Kenneth Gilbert. He moved to France in 1971, and became known for his interpretations of Baroque music, particularly French Baroque music. His house in the Vendee region of France has a beautiful garden, reminiscent of garden scenes in the operas he has performed (Handel's Alcina, Orlando etc. In 1979 he founded Les Arts Florissants, named after a work by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, an ensemble devoted to Baroque music. He has also taught at the Paris Conservatoire. Aerial view of downtown Buffalo, New York Buffalo, also known as The Queen City, The Nickel City, and the City of Good Neighbors, is an American city in western New York. ... Art history usually refers to the history of the visual arts. ... Harvard, see Harvard (disambiguation) Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Music Look up Music on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikisource, as part of the 1911 Encyclopedia Wikiproject, has original text related to this article: Music Wikicities has a wiki about Music: Music MusicNovatory: the science of music encyclopedia Science of Music... Yale can refer to: Yale University, one of the United States oldest and most famous universities. ... Ralph Kirkpatrick (* June 10, 1911 in Leominster, Massachusetts - † April 13, 1984 in Guilford, Connecticut) was a musician, musicologist and harpsichordist. ... Kenneth Gilbert (born December 16, 1931) is a Canadian harpsichordist. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... Baroque music is Western classical music from the Baroque era, after the Renaissance music era and before the Classical music era proper. ... Vendée is a département in west central France, on the Atlantics Bay of Biscay. ... HANDEL was the code-name for the UKs National Attack Warning System in the Cold War. ... Alcina is an opera composed by George Frideric Handel for his first season at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden. ... Orlando can be: a city in Florida; a town in Oklahoma; a township in South Africa; a character in Renaissance and Baroque literature and music. ... This page refers to the year 1979. ... Les Arts Florissants can refer to two different, but related things: Les Arts Florissants, the name of a vocal piece by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. ... Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643 - February 24, 1704) was a French composer of the Baroque era. ... Conservatoire de Paris, or Paris Conservatoire, has been central to the evolution of music in France and Western Europe. ...