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

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

On the U.S. semiquincentennial.

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 ...

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

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.

When war broke out again in Europe on September 1, 1939, the Depression-era U.S. Army was only some 170,000 soldiers ...

In this week’s episode of Roots, Rights & Reason, host Lee Smith welcomes author and cultural critic Roger Kimball for a powerful discussion on the endu ...