The concertmaster came out and played an A on the piano, for the orchestra to tune. The first piece would be a half step ...
Still, it is worth noting that some choices have really pushed boundaries. In 1998, ADS members voted for the prefix “e-”; in ...
Bennett Tucker on Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin,” at the Haifa Auditorium.
It is remarkable that, despite its long record of failure, socialism is now more popular than ever among college students and in progressive precincts of the Democratic Party, at least judging by the ...
On I puritani, by Bellini, at the Metropolitan Opera. It has been a good season at the Met for “the sweet Sicilian,” as Wagner called Bellini. The company had already staged La sonnambula. (For my ...
On Twelfth Night, collecting Old Masters, the British Empire, lost synagogues, Shostakovich & more from the world of culture.