Suzanna Murawski on Simone Weil, an art heist & Picasso in Cleveland.

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 ...

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

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

The choir sang Eben’s Prague Te Deum 1989. It premiered in April 1990, on the eve of a visit by Pope John Paul II. From the ...

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

Rosa Feola, the Italian soprano, does her part in advocating Martucci. (She is a favorite singer of Muti, by the way.) She ...

She, too, was a writer, and she sent me a short piece that she had published in a medical journal, which I found to be of ...

After Warburg died in obscurity in 1929, devotees tended his flame. His memory was preserved above all within the research ...

Jeremy Black on “The Price of Victory,” by N. A. M. Rodger.

When the ship’s crew cut into Crook Jaw, they found neither Devil nor mermaid inside, just heaps of yellow seaweed. As it ...