Andsnes started with Debussy, however. He likes Debussy, and he likes playing Debussy at encore time. He is known to do L’Isle joyeuse, for example. Last night, he did a prelude: “The Sunken Cathedral ...

JP “The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt,” at the Jewish Museum, New York (through August 10): In the mid-seventeenth ...

as Frost, who had every reason to veil his sexual velleities for his friend’s wife when he wrote about them in public, would ...

Mozart’s overture was spirited but loose—a little sloppy. The rest of the opera was spirited too, and seldom sloppy. In ...

“Gone is the age of satire,” the speaker says, but this very poem, worthy of Swift, demonstrates that satire is, if dangerous ...

At the other end of the age spectrum, doge also reported that the sba issued more than 3,000 loans totaling $333 million to ...

M. P. Kennedy on a performance of Heinrich Biber’s “Rosary Sonatas” at Pomona College.

“‘Edgar Allan Poe’ Review: The Soul Within the Shadow” Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Wall Street Journal ...

Often, concerts begin with an overture (a natural choice). Last night’s ended with one: the Leonore Overture No. 3, one of ...

It is not a “big” or “important” work, thank God: plot and meaning are compact like a kernel; characters are realised to the ...

Metamorphosis of an Author” at the National Library of Israel, Jerusalem.

McGill and Ax played a recital of Schumann, Schubert, Beethoven, and several Americans. They began with a work that has begun ...