The deliberate neglect of our civic virtues has left our institutions hollowed out.

The Tin Angel is a new opera by Daniel Asia, the American composer born in 1953. It is based on a novel of the same name by ...

The only rare book I have ever owned is a copy of the Aeneid VII–XII, the third of a three-volume set of Virgil’s works, bound in vellum and printed by Abraham Wolfgang in Amsterdam in 1680. Before me ...

Jay Nordlinger on songs about flowers, etc.

Rare is the opera that continues to be performed in two languages, but the exigencies of the Paris Opera have imprinted that ...

What makes TAMA ’s modern collection unique, notes the museum’s director, Tania Coen-Uzzielli, is that the word “acquisition” ...

Ricky Ian Gordon has written a cycle of songs about flowers. In this episode, we hear one of them. Rachmaninoff wrote a song called “Lilacs.” We hear that, too. Bach opens his Goldberg Variations with ...

On Shakespeare & his literary forerunners, contemporaries & heirs.