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Jay Nordlinger has written about music for The New Criterion since 2000. He is a senior editor of National Review and a fellow of the National Review Institute. He does two podcasts: Music for a While and Q&A. Since 2002, he has hosted a series of public interviews at the Salzburg Festival.
Nordlinger is the author of two books from Encounter: Peace, They Say: A History of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Most Famous and Controversial Prize in the World and Children of Monsters: An Inquiry into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators. National Review Books has published two collections of his journalism: Here, There & Everywhere and Digging In.
A native of Michigan, Nordlinger has long lived in New York.
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On recent performances at David Geffen Hall, Carnegie Hall & the Metropolitan Opera.
On recent performances at David Geffen Hall, Carnegie Hall, Park Avenue Armory & Zankel Hall.
On recent performances at Carnegie Hall.
On recent performances at David Geffen Hall & Carnegie Hall.
On recent performances at Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Opera House & David Geffen Hall.
On recent performances at Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall & the Park Avenue Armory.
On West Side Story, Schwanengesang, Dead Man Walking & a performance by Yo-Yo Ma.
On Macbeth, Orfeo ed Euridice, a violin recital, The Greek Passion, Falstaff & a recital by Arcadi Volodos.
On the Miró Quartet, American Ballet Theatre’s Romeo and Juliet, Teatro Nuovo’s Poliuto & the pianist Juho Pohjonen.
Jay Nordlinger, The New Criterion’s music critic, talks music—but, more important, plays music.
Jay Nordlinger, The New Criterion’s music critic, talks music–but, more important, plays music.