Still, it is worth noting that some choices have really pushed boundaries. In 1998, ADS members voted for the prefix “e-”; in ...

A review of a new production of I puritani might begin with the production—the stage direction, the set design, etc. Or it ...

Anatoly Grablevsky on “Monet and Venice,” at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

Anatoly Grablevsky on the Decembrists, James I & the English party system.

Much of what makes Diogenes the Cynic (d. ca. 323 B.C.) such a fascinating but difficult figure to reckon with can be gleaned from the opening anecdote of the most complete surviving biography of the ...

One late evening in December, 1985, I heard a radio talk-show host announce “a great loss: Robert Graves is dead.” It came as a shock, even though I had been hearing rumors for some time that the ...

What is American music? When the New York Tribune posed that question in 1924, George Gershwin answered with his epochal Rhapsody in Blue. Now the Palm Beach Symphony is attempting to address that ...

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Like other aspects of Western civilization, classical music is under attack. In an academic paper published in 2023, five music librarians of the University of Toronto deplored the fact that in the ...

Adjacent to the Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, arguably Florence’s most harmonious square, one of the great treasures of Italian civilization has recently gone back on display: the Chimera of ...

Last Saturday night, the New York Philharmonic played a concert splashed with color. It began with a work by Lera Auerbach, written in 2010 or so. (The history of this work is slightly complicated.) I ...