The Rise and Fall of Athens’s Naval Mastermind,” by Michael Scott.

Mahler’s Third began with a blatty onset in the horns—but, as they continued, those horns were arresting. Part I as a whole ...

Warren Frye on “The Saga of the Earls of Orkney,” edited and translated by Judith Jesch.

On political philosophy, Egon Schiele, Gainsborough, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Hogarth & more from the world of culture.

Jane Coombs on a performance of the Sukhishvili Georgian National Ballet, at Carnegie Hall.

A recital by Juan Diego Flórez, the Peruvian tenor, follows a pattern. With Vincenzo Scalera at the piano, the program begins with songs by bel canto composers—Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini. It has some ...

What do you give the man or woman who has everything, or many things? Here’s an idea: a new piece of music, freshly commissioned. In other words, you commission the piece, from a composer, in honor of ...

On a concert of the New York Philharmonic, offering works by Tchaikovsky & Shostakovich.

Longtime readers will know that The New Criterion has had what might politely be described as a fraught relationship with the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities. Samuel Lipman, our ...

T he Kokinwakashū, or Collection of Ancient and Modern Japanese Songs, more commonly known as Kokinshū, is an anthology of some eleven hundred poems compiled in the early tenth century at the Heian ...