David Frum, an author and columnist for The Atlantic: “Above all, we must learn to live in an America where an overwhelming ...

Mozart is the great test of musicians—of violinists, pianists, singers, and conductors. Mozart is what separates the men from ...

Once, at a gallery show I was visiting, the artist pointed to a painting of two gun-toting soldiers and told me it was the ...

George Loomis on “Macbeth” at the Parma Festival Verdi.

Robert Frank in Dialogue” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

The Wagner concert was titled “Gods and Mortals,” an oddity since Wagner’s gods perish and are thus quite mortal. The program ...

James Little, Mr. Domino, 2024, Oil & wax on linen, Petzel, New York. “James Little: Affirmed/Actions” at Petzel, New York ...

Frédéric Chopin died 175 years ago, so it’s not too often that his fans get to hear something new from him. But recently, a curator at the Morgan Library & Museum, while sorting through a collection ...

On October 24, the Friends and Young Friends of The New Criterion gathered at The Players with David Dubal for a special version of his beloved piano evenings, featuring Cecile Licad performing ...

Nothing but drums, cannons, men, misery of all sorts,” Beethoven wrote his publisher to describe the scene, which did nothing to help his incipient hearing loss. He dedicated the concerto not to ...

Teatro alla Scala, Italy’s premier opera house, includes an opera from the country’s pre-Mozart past in its programming each ...