Hunter’s commissioned composers. In 2023, he wrote Portraits and Diversions, for orchestra, in honor of Leonard and Judy Lauder. The Lauders (Leonard died in 2025) have long been known for their art ...
Warren Frye on “The Saga of the Earls of Orkney,” edited and translated by Judith Jesch.
Mahler’s Third began with a blatty onset in the horns—but, as they continued, those horns were arresting. Part I as a whole ...
On “Louise Nevelson: Mrs. N’s Palace,” at the Centre Pompidou, Metz.
On a concert by the National Symphony Orchestra, at the Trump Kennedy Center.
Jane Coombs on a performance of the Sukhishvili Georgian National Ballet, at Carnegie Hall.
A recital by Juan Diego Flórez, the Peruvian tenor, follows a pattern. With Vincenzo Scalera at the piano, the program begins with songs by bel canto composers—Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini. It has some ...
While Dueñas was playing, a woman sneaked down the aisle, back to her seat. Apparently, she had left after the Beethoven, not realizing that there would be an encore. This time she had her shoes—those ...
On Old Master drawings, Caravaggio, the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Art Deco & more from the world of culture.