Topic: “Music”

Music for a While #52: Strains of Salzburg

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

On arts and letters, popularity and unpopularity.

On John Marin, Stradivari, George Rickey & more from the world of culture.

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

On a fat knight and night thoughts.

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

On hearing a recording of a concert you attended long ago . . .

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

On Victor Hugo and Camille Saint-Saëns.

On Dante, American aristocracy, a floating classical music concert & more from the world of culture.