Paul du Quenoy on the season-opening new production of Lohengrin at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.
William Walton composed his “What Cheer?” in 1961. But that carol hearkens back to an earlier form, and its words date to, ...
Singing, playing, and shouting Christmas “Chronological order is not the only order,” says Jay in this episode, but “it’s not a bad” one. The episode starts in the sixteenth century—“Gaudete, Christus ...
On the U.S. semiquincentennial.
On Marcus Aurelius, the American spirit, Camus’ notebooks, Joseph Marioni, Brahms & more from the world of culture. The violinists Maxim Vengerov & Vilde Frang, the violist James Ehnes, the cellist ...
When war broke out again in Europe on September 1, 1939, the Depression-era U.S. Army was only some 170,000 soldiers ...
Gentz called the American Revolution “defensive” and the French one “offensive.” Maistre traced the latter’s most offensive ...
The deeper cause of the success, the general wrote, will be the character of the people—the frugality, industry, and thirst ...
On “Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time,” by Dietrich Neumann.
But Lear is not bluffing. He intends to retire from kingship and divide his kingdom, and he does retire from kingship and ...
T he Declaration of Independence was the banner under which the American Revolution was fought. “We hold these truths to be ...
O r perhaps we should alter Catullus and say “vale atque ave.” With this issue, we bid fond farewell to our beloved Adam ...
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