William Walton composed his “What Cheer?” in 1961. But that carol hearkens back to an earlier form, and its words date to, ...

Paul du Quenoy on the season-opening new production of Lohengrin at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.

On the U.S. semiquincentennial.

Those of us who mark the music have a duty to share it with younger generations and take every opportunity to expose children ...

Paul du Quenoy on the season-opening new production of Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,” at La Scala.

One late evening in December, 1985, I heard a radio talk-show host announce “a great loss: Robert Graves is dead.” It came as ...

Like many fellow aspiring musicians, he studied in the French capital and discussed music theory at such a high level with ...

Inger Kuin’s biography, despite its occasional pandering to twenty-first-century sensibilities, is an excellent place to start.

On Timaeus in Paradise: Metaphors and Beauty from Plato to Dante and Beyond, by Piero Boitani.

Gentz called the American Revolution “defensive” and the French one “offensive.” Maistre traced the latter’s most offensive ...