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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

Rachel was crying. I do remember one thing she said in our many conversations, if only because I wrote it down. Either in ...

The legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them: The executive shall ...

But the media as we have known them for the last half century or so could never be supposed guilty of interfering in the ...

Nicholas Shrimpton on Asian art in London.

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