Topic: “Music”

Calling all Wagnerites

On Die Meistersinger at the Metropolitan Opera last night.

On the composer Marcel Dupré and an organ concert by Jeremy Filsell.

On the Metropolitan Opera’s performances of Verdi’s Messa da Requiem, Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones, and Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov.

On a recital by the Chinese pianist in Carnegie Hall last night.

On a recital by Jonas Kaufmann, tenor, and Helmut Deutsch, piano, in Carnegie Hall.

On last night’s concert by the Philadelphia Orchestra, opening the Carnegie Hall season.

On an aria by the late Carlisle Floyd.

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.