The works shown in New York City Ballet’s annual Fall Fashion Gala typically, and perhaps unsurprisingly, elevate style (of ...
Suzanna Murawski on Rousseau, Rothko & American literature.
On Trotsky, Diego Rivera & David Alfaro Siqueiros in Mexico City.
On The Light of Battle by Michel Paradis. As a young man Eisenhower seemed to be searching for a father figure to compensate ...
What’s so bad about having a mentally deficient ruler? Surely the ruler’s advisors can make wise decisions and tell him what to say? When I hear such reasoning, I think of Tsar Nicholas II, his sad ...
In some parts of America, they speak an English that’s more English than the English. In 2006, in Sago, West Virginia, I ...
We have known composers who conduct, but conduct mainly their own music: Stravinsky, for example, or Copland. We have known composers who are also big-league conductors: Bernstein, Previn, Boulez.
The MS-13 gang member who cuts my hair knows all the best used-book shops in Mexico City. His most recent recommendation was a cavernous, two-floor store just down the street from the Coyoacán borough ...
“We gave the world new ways to dream,” backed by a lilting, repeated musical phrase, is the defining refrain of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Sunset Boulevard (at the St. James Theatre, and styled “Sunset ...