Paul du Quenoy on the season-opening new production of Lohengrin at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.

William Walton composed his “What Cheer?” in 1961. But that carol hearkens back to an earlier form, and its words date to, ...

One late evening in December, 1985, I heard a radio talk-show host announce “a great loss: Robert Graves is dead.” It came as ...

Singing, playing, and shouting Christmas “Chronological order is not the only order,” says Jay in this episode, but “it’s not a bad” one. The episode starts in the sixteenth century—“Gaudete, Christus ...

Paul du Quenoy on the season-opening new production of Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,” at La Scala.

On the U.S. semiquincentennial.

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 ...

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 ...

In this week’s episode of Roots, Rights & Reason, host Lee Smith welcomes author and cultural critic Roger Kimball for a powerful discussion on the enduring relevance of The Federalist Papers and the ...