Last night, playing the variations, Levit did some crying out and whistling. I can’t remember hearing him do this before. In any event, if Eileen Farrell had “a right to sing the blues,” Igor Levit ...
Lunching at Oxford in 1967 with Elizabeth Taylor and his Oxford mentor, Nevill Coghill, the actor Richard Burton was ...
“Little Russia” referred approximately to the portion of the Russian Empire that is today within the borders of Ukraine. The ...
Isabel Leonard is an American mezzo-soprano. Our program booklet at Carnegie Hall said “Isabel Leonard, Vocalist.” “Vocalist” ...
Editors’ note: The following passage is excerpted from Book III of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, translated by Aaron ...
The concertmaster came out and played an A on the piano, for the orchestra to tune. The first piece would be a half step ...
Born in Venice and orphaned in his early teens, the talented Salieri was discovered by the composer Leopold Gassmann, who ...
Stephen E. Benko on Europe’s crisis of confidence.