William Walton composed his “What Cheer?” in 1961. But that carol hearkens back to an earlier form, and its words date to, ...

“Chronological order is not the only order,” says Jay in this episode, but “it’s not a bad” one. The episode starts in the sixteenth century—“Gaudete, Christus est natus.” It stays there for a while ...

On the U.S. semiquincentennial.

Paul du Quenoy on the season-opening new production of Lohengrin at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.

Paul du Quenoy on the season-opening new production of Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,” at La Scala.

Those of us who mark the music have a duty to share it with younger generations and take every opportunity to expose children ...

One late evening in December, 1985, I heard a radio talk-show host announce “a great loss: Robert Graves is dead.” It came as ...

Like many fellow aspiring musicians, he studied in the French capital and discussed music theory at such a high level with ...

Inger Kuin’s biography, despite its occasional pandering to twenty-first-century sensibilities, is an excellent place to start.