Last night, Carnegie Hall launched a festival of Czech music, anchored by the Czech Philharmonic. This is a superb orchestra, with a superb music director: Semyon Bychkov, born in the Soviet Union in ...

Nathan C. Stewart on performances of “Die Walküre,” “Siegfried” & “Götterdämmerung” by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

Gorini had a good idea: he played another piece by Schubert, the composer’s own variation on that same Diabelli waltz—the ...

Kazuki Yamada, from Japan, is the music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, in England. That position has ...

Alongside this timeless insight, we are also treated to a healthy dose of Italian nationalism disguised in a Scottish ...

As Jay explains in his introduction, he has done many Christmas podcasts. And Fourth of July podcasts. And an Easter podcast or two. And Halloween podcasts. But not until now a Thanksgiving podcast.

On murder, notebooks, Gerald Russello, Franz Kafka & more from the world of culture.

In October, it was announced that Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation for more than a decade, would be assuming the position of president of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, ...

When you see a photo of Giorgio Morandi, you see a man who was always looking. Round, black glasses below a furrowed brow (or resting just above it); deep smile lines, the echo of a nose scrunched in ...

Not only English departments but also contemporary artists and curators have rendered themselves irrelevant, or so Dean Kissick writes in Harper’s. As Laddaga says of literature professors, Kissick ...

Beethoven’s middle movement, Largo, is in E major. Bronfman played the opening like a hymn. The music had a religioso feeling ...