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On Mondrian, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Henry Hobson Richardson, ancient moneymaking & more from the world of culture.
“Heartbeats & breathing,” by Jay Nordlinger
2024年12月4日 · Jay Nordlinger on a concert of the Czech Philharmonic, under Semyon Bychkov, in Carnegie Hall.
“The dock,” by Christopher Hewitt
Careful. Ice enamels the planks. And strews a cloud-white archipelago where the graphite water courses north in a mile-wide furrow plowed by an Ice Age
“War horses & fresh faces,” by Elizabeth Eck
2024年12月30日 · Attendees of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra wait with bated breath for the Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä’s stint as music director to begin in 2027.
“Our Athenian American Democracy,” by Victor Davis Hanson
Democracy—the word itself means “people (demos) power (kratos)”—originated in late sixth-century Athens through the reforms of Cleisthenes.The Athenian popular leader transferred …
“The joy of poetry,” by Mark Bauerlein
I n 2003, when results came in for the 2002 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (sppa), Dana Gioia took action.The survey was designed by the National Endowment for the Arts, where …
“A real ‘Trovatore,’” by Jay Nordlinger
2024年10月30日 · Last night’s Trovatore at the Met started out okay. But it got much better than that. By the end, it was a stirring Trovatore, deserving of many bravos.. I am speaking of Il …
The triumph of Thomas Sowell | The New Criterion
T ho mas Sowell is one of the towering American intellectuals of our time. An economist trained at the University of Chicago and a social theorist of the first rank, he has been a senior fellow at …
“The ferryman’s due,” by Patrick Kurp
A n obolus is a small silver coin the Greeks placed under the tongues of the dead so they could pay Charon as he ferried them across the river Styx to the underworld. Andrew Rickard named …