On a performance of Wagner’s Rheingold at the Salzburg Easter Festival.
Khatia Buniatishvili, a Georgian pianist, is a star on the international scene. So is another Georgian, Lisa Batiashvili, the ...
Put simply, a threat to a whole civilization falls into an entirely different category from a threat to a barbaric regime ...
According to most accounts of his long and productive career, Claude Monet (1840–1926) was a passionate pursuer of natural effects, a magician with a brush. Specific moments in time seemed to flow ...
Weekly recommendations from the Editors on what to read, see, and hear in the world of culture.
Grand, possibly familiar melodies predominate in “The Immigrant” and “Love Theme,” even as jazzy music in foxtrot rhythm, ...
As James Q. Wilson wrote for City Journal, “Marriage was once a sacrament, then it became a contract, now it is an ...
Kaija Saariaho, a Finn, was one of the most prominent composers of our time. She died in 2023, at seventy. Last night, the ...
On The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, by Catherine Fletcher.