Be My Guest” at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Then a piano was wheeled out onstage for the Tchaikovsky Concerto (the First, of course, not the Second, which has always ...

President Trump’s takeover of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts earlier this year ruffled some feathers, but ...

The Capriccio italien, a fantasy for orchestra, is replete with Italian tunes. Tchaikovsky wrote it under the inspiration of ...

To say it immediately, Nadine Sierra proved herself a great singer at the Metropolitan Opera last night. The company began a run of La sonnambula, Bellini’s opera of 1831. I will return to Ms. Sierra ...

In an age of killer submarines and cyber warfare, one might reasonably ask what old warriors from long-gone conflicts have to teach us about war today. Qui ...

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On Riccardo Muti and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

Anatoly Grablevsky on Roman emperors, the Constitution & Bertie Wooster.