The Metropolitan Opera has gone dark for a month or so, but its orchestra is free to play—as it did last night in Carnegie Hall. The program was all-Brahms. It is good to be able to see these players ...

This winter, the playwright Matthew Gasda, best known for his observations of New York’s disaffected Zoomer youth, has staged ...

Venerated in his lifetime, Saint Francis did not have to wait long for a monument to be erected in his honor. A basilica in ...

Paul du Quenoy on a concert of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington.

Tennyson wrote a famous poem for New Year’s Day, or any day. Jonathan Dove, a contemporary English composer, set it to music. This episode begins with that piece. There is also a song from the ...

On Cicero, the Aegean Islands, The Book of Marvels, Johannes Regis & more from the world of culture. Master of the Geneva Boccaccio, “Sri Lanka (Trapponee),” in The Book of Marvels of the World, ca.

The New Criterion · Jeremy Black & James Panero discuss “The scream of steam” ...