Warren Frye on “The Saga of the Earls of Orkney,” edited and translated by Judith Jesch.
Mahler’s Third began with a blatty onset in the horns—but, as they continued, those horns were arresting. Part I as a whole ...
On a concert by the National Symphony Orchestra, at the Trump Kennedy Center.
On “Louise Nevelson: Mrs. N’s Palace,” at the Centre Pompidou, Metz.
Jane Coombs on a performance of the Sukhishvili Georgian National Ballet, at Carnegie Hall.
A recital by Juan Diego Flórez, the Peruvian tenor, follows a pattern. With Vincenzo Scalera at the piano, the program begins with songs by bel canto composers—Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini. It has some ...
While Dueñas was playing, a woman sneaked down the aisle, back to her seat. Apparently, she had left after the Beethoven, not realizing that there would be an encore. This time she had her shoes—those ...
There is enough blame to be shared all around. Every organization, every office, every business has employees who are detrimental to the work performed. But the CIA should have been more vigilant.
On January 22, Friends of The New Criterion gathered at the offices of the magazine to celebrate the publication of Brooke Allen’s “Good Bones: Glorious Relics from the Age of Reading.” The New Criter ...
On a sampling of Christmas music.