At least, that is, until now, with the advent of the Pascal Institute, in the Netherlands, with which St. John’s has formed a ...
Paul du Quenoy on a performance of Tchaikovsky’s “Sleeping Beauty” by the Hungarian National Ballet, Budapest.
On the Aspen Music Festival, American chamber music, John Ashbery, the Fraunces Tavern Museum & more from the world of culture. R. B. Kitaj, Untitled (Portrait of John Ashbery), 1970, Charcoal and ...
Verdi’s masterpiece of 1853, La traviata. She fashioned her production in 2016. It was staged last Wednesday night at the ...
Hungarian Modernity” at the Petit Palais, Paris.
The presentation of retrospective exhibitions of the work of obscure artists has become an obsession for museums, with curators drawing in a public hungry to discover the next big thing. But Robin ...
On dining rooms, newspapers, musical instruments, the Dunlap broadsides & more from the world of culture. Joseph Willems after two engravings by François Boucher, The Music Lesson, ca. 1765, ...
If you’re in an opera orchestra, it’s natural to want to get out of the pit and play a concert now and then—a concert of symphonic music. Back home in New York, the Met players do this. And so do the ...
On microhistory, Scythians, Fairfield Porter, park concerts, the Marquis de Lafayette & more from the world of culture. The conductor Gustavo Dudamel leading the New York Philharmonic in 2025. Photo: ...
Semyon Bychkov is a very good conductor. The New York Philharmonic is a very good orchestra. Last night’s was not a good concert. On the program was a single work—one of the greatest works of music, ...
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