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 ...

One late evening in December, 1985, I heard a radio talk-show host announce “a great loss: Robert Graves is dead.” It came as ...

Paul du Quenoy on the season-opening new production of Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,” at La Scala.

On the U.S. semiquincentennial.

Those of us who mark the music have a duty to share it with younger generations and take every opportunity to expose children ...

Like many fellow aspiring musicians, he studied in the French capital and discussed music theory at such a high level with ...

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 ...

Inger Kuin’s biography, despite its occasional pandering to twenty-first-century sensibilities, is an excellent place to start.

In this week’s episode of Roots, Rights & Reason, host Lee Smith welcomes author and cultural critic Roger Kimball for a powerful discussion on the endu ...