Topic: “Beethoven”

Solemn Mass, joyous night

On Riccardo Muti and Beethoven’s Missa solemnis by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

On grievance studies, Op Art, an evening of music at St. John’s, the laws of theater & more from the world of culture.

On a concert of the New York Philharmonic.

On Josiah Wedgwood, Beethoven’s biographers & Jacques-Louis David.

On four Beethoven sonatas, live & in person at New York’s Saint Thomas Church.

On Beethoven, Schubert & the Alberses.

On the pianist Igor Levit in Beethoven.

On the 2020 Salzburg Festival.

On Fernando Pessoa’s “heteronyms,” Viking history & Beethoven’s most famous portrait.

Jay Nordlinger, music critic of The New Criterion, talks music—but, more important, plays music.