Suisman’s is an uncomplicated narrative that begins in the Civil War, when military music still served purely utilitarian ...

The choir sang Eben’s Prague Te Deum 1989. It premiered in April 1990, on the eve of a visit by Pope John Paul II. From the ...

Jeremy Black on “The Price of Victory,” by N. A. M. Rodger.

Rosa Feola, the Italian soprano, does her part in advocating Martucci. (She is a favorite singer of Muti, by the way.) She ...

She, too, was a writer, and she sent me a short piece that she had published in a medical journal, which I found to be of ...

When the ship’s crew cut into Crook Jaw, they found neither Devil nor mermaid inside, just heaps of yellow seaweed. As it ...

Benjamin Riley on “Sorolla and the Sea,” at the Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach.

After Warburg died in obscurity in 1929, devotees tended his flame. His memory was preserved above all within the research ...

Brooke Allen on “Academic Writing as if Readers Matter,” by Leonard Cassuto.

Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930,” at the Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Alfred Corn on the letters of Shirley Hazzard & Donald Keene.

Michelangelo Buonarroti, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael’s captivating works produce a grand scale of awe and occasion that ...