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 ...
Weekly recommendations from the Editors on what to read, see, and hear in the world of culture.
Put simply, a threat to a whole civilization falls into an entirely different category from a threat to a barbaric regime ...
As James Q. Wilson wrote for City Journal, “Marriage was once a sacrament, then it became a contract, now it is an ...
On The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, by Catherine Fletcher.
Grand, possibly familiar melodies predominate in “The Immigrant” and “Love Theme,” even as jazzy music in foxtrot rhythm, ...
Kaija Saariaho, a Finn, was one of the most prominent composers of our time. She died in 2023, at seventy. Last night, the ...
After presenting a selection of Baroque masterpieces from the Borghese collection in 2024—which I reviewed in these pages—the Musée Jacquemart-André has now mounted a show with works from New York’s ...