Sep 08, 2021
Music for a While #51: From Mozart to Borge
featuring
Jay Nordlinger, The New Criterion’s music critic, talks music—but, more important, plays music.
Topic: “Music”
Sep 07, 2021
Living with “Falstaff”
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On a fat knight and night thoughts.
Sep 03, 2021
Week in review
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On Josiah Wedgwood, Beethoven’s biographers & Jacques-Louis David.
Sep 02, 2021
The past returns
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On hearing a recording of a concert you attended long ago . . .
Aug 25, 2021
Music for a While #50: Pieces from all over
featuring
Jay Nordlinger, The New Criterion’s music critic, talks music—but, more important, plays music.
Aug 25, 2021
Two polymaths
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On Victor Hugo and Camille Saint-Saëns.
Aug 24, 2021
The Critic’s Notebook
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On Dante, American aristocracy, a floating classical music concert & more from the world of culture.
Music September 2021
New York chronicle
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On a livestream performance by the New York Philharmonic; an organ concert by Raymond Nagem at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; a concert of piano music by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; the National Youth Orchestra; and The Barber of Seville with Teatro Nuovo.
Features September 2021
Culture as counterculture
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On changes in the cultural climate.
Aug 16, 2021
An Italian salon in Salzburg
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On an evening with Sonya Yoncheva and friends.