Features February 2020
Cathedrals of sound
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On the engineer of the French organ revival.
Topic: “Music”
Jan 13, 2020
Mountain music
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On an evening at Garth Newel in Warm Springs, Virginia.
Jan 09, 2020
Music for a While #17: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow
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Jay Nordlinger, music critic of The New Criterion, talks music—but, more important, plays music.
Jan 07, 2020
The Critic’s Notebook
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On Ralph Ellison’s letters, Eric Brown, Rembrandt by the beach & more from the world of culture.
Jan 04, 2020
All night long—for an hour or so—with Rachmaninoff
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Listening to the Vespers on New Year’s Eve.
Jan 03, 2020
Week in review
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On Roger Scruton, Notre-Dame & Shakespearean Verdi.
Dec 24, 2019
Music for a While #16: Merry Christmas
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Jay Nordlinger, music critic of The New Criterion, talks music—but, more important, plays music.
Dec 24, 2019
Tinkering with Tosca
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On La Scala’s opening-night production of Puccini’s Tosca.
Music January 2020
New York chronicle
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On new music by James MacMillan, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Bryce Dessner; newish music by Philip Glass and Wynton Marsalis; unfamiliar music by Bizet; the conductors Riccardo Muti and Santtu-Matias Rouvali; the mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato; and the pianist Conrad Tao.