Paul du Quenoy on the season-opening new production of Lohengrin at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.
William Walton composed his “What Cheer?” in 1961. But that carol hearkens back to an earlier form, and its words date to, ...
One late evening in December, 1985, I heard a radio talk-show host announce “a great loss: Robert Graves is dead.” It came as ...
Paul du Quenoy on the season-opening new production of Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,” at La Scala.
On the U.S. semiquincentennial.
On Marcus Aurelius, the American spirit, Camus’ notebooks, Joseph Marioni, Brahms & more from the world of culture. The violinists Maxim Vengerov & Vilde Frang, the violist James Ehnes, the cellist ...
Inger Kuin’s biography, despite its occasional pandering to twenty-first-century sensibilities, is an excellent place to start.
In this week’s episode of Roots, Rights & Reason, host Lee Smith welcomes author and cultural critic Roger Kimball for a powerful discussion on the endu ...
When war broke out again in Europe on September 1, 1939, the Depression-era U.S. Army was only some 170,000 soldiers ...
Gentz called the American Revolution “defensive” and the French one “offensive.” Maistre traced the latter’s most offensive ...