Balanchine had intended the role to be interpreted as a princess, rather than as a queen, carrying the ethereal, regal ...
Jay Nordlinger on a concert of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, with Joshua Bell, “leader” and violin soloist.
On “The Day is Gone: 100 Years of New Objectivity,” at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
If we wish to understand our world, we would do well to initiate our studies by reading and rereading the Athenian’s account of his own world and of the upheavals it underwent in the course of his ...
The first work was Ein Heldenleben, “A Hero’s Life,” by Richard Strauss. Who’s the hero of that one? Why, the composer ...
Max L. Feldman on “TIHANYI 140,” at the National Gallery of Hungary, Budapest.
On Roman theater, George Orwell, Esther before Ahasuerus, the borough of Queens & more from the world of culture. Artemisia Gentileschi, Esther before Ahasuerus, 1620s, Oil on canvas, Metropolitan ...
Paul du Quenoy on a revival of “Boris Godunov,” at the Royal Opera.
The Ligeti was his Étude No. 4, “Fanfares,” from 1985. It was light and limpid, and flavored with jazz. The Liszt was the Rhapsodie espagnole, from 1858. It is jaw-droppingly difficult. And Mr. Liu ...
The most obvious feature of Theodore Roosevelt’s life and thought is the one least celebrated today, his manliness. Somehow America in the twentieth century went from the explosion of assertive ...
On a concert by the New York Philharmonic, with Thomas Adès conducting & Yuja Wang at the piano.