The Metropolitan Opera has gone dark for a month or so, but its orchestra is free to play—as it did last night in Carnegie Hall. The program was all-Brahms. It is good to be able to see these players ...

This winter, the playwright Matthew Gasda, best known for his observations of New York’s disaffected Zoomer youth, has staged ...

Venerated in his lifetime, Saint Francis did not have to wait long for a monument to be erected in his honor. A basilica in ...

Tennyson wrote a famous poem for New Year’s Day, or any day. Jonathan Dove, a contemporary English composer, set it to music. This episode begins with that piece. There is also a song from the ...

On Cicero, the Aegean Islands, The Book of Marvels, Johannes Regis & more from the world of culture. Master of the Geneva Boccaccio, “Sri Lanka (Trapponee),” in The Book of Marvels of the World, ca.

Paul du Quenoy on a concert of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington.

The New Criterion · Jeremy Black & James Panero discuss “The scream of steam” ...

On French wallpaper, restitution & digital technology.

“I was asked to write a five-minute orchestra work expressing the current world situation and to do it as soon as possible.” That is an interesting, possibly daunting, assignment. What was “the ...

On Shakespeare’s Tragic Art, by Rhodri Lewis. Shakespeare knew all this, of course. He exhibits a dazzling mastery of rhetorical tropes and techniques of persuasion, endowing his characters with an ...

Sabin Howard has been at the center of a battle over sculpture for over three decades. I first wrote about him in this space nearly twenty years ago, when I paid a visit to his studio in the South ...