Dispatch
A centenarian, a dance, etc.
Music loves a centennial as much as the next industry, maybe more. Last year, music marked two…
Exiled abstraction
From the emergence of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919 to the 1956 Hungarian…
Week in review
Recent stories of note: “Revolutionary faith”Alexander Lee, The Critic After the French…
Objective grounds in Israel
German artists and intellectuals in the 1920s interpreted their new reality, shaped by the traumatic…
Heroes in sound
Last night, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra came to Carnegie Hall to play two works—both tone poems,…
Russian troubles in London
Some have feared that Bryn Terfel is nearing the end of his career. A year ago, The New York Times …
The Critic’s Notebook
Fiction: The Comfort Letter, by Arthur R. G. Solmssen (Tivoli Books): Ordway Smith, the…
“From Spain & elsewhere,” by Jay Nordlinger
“After his win at the International Chopin Piano Competition in 2021,” said Carnegie Hall publicity,…
Week in review
Recent stories of note: “Expertest Artificers”Kate Heard, The London Review of Books As…
“Rediscovering the Bronze Age,” by David Platzer
When we call the Bronze Age (2300–800 B.C.) prehistoric, that does not apply to ancient Egypt,…
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