Isabel Leonard is an American mezzo-soprano. Our program booklet at Carnegie Hall said “Isabel Leonard, Vocalist.” “Vocalist” ...

Editors’ note: The following passage is excerpted from Book III of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, translated by Aaron ...

The concertmaster came out and played an A on the piano, for the orchestra to tune. The first piece would be a half step ...

To return to the question posed at the beginning: is socialism a hate crime? The record speaks for itself: socialism is a ...

Born in Venice and orphaned in his early teens, the talented Salieri was discovered by the composer Leopold Gassmann, who ...

Still, it is worth noting that some choices have really pushed boundaries. In 1998, ADS members voted for the prefix “e-”; in ...

Bennett Tucker on Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin,” at the Haifa Auditorium.

“What monuments stand to teach Americans about themselves” Julia Friedman, The Spectator World ...

A review of a new production of I puritani might begin with the production—the stage direction, the set design, etc. Or it ...

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered for The New Criterion’s seventh annual Circle Lecture on September 18, 2025. On November 18, 1956, Nikita Khrushchev, the first ...

On Mr. Lasch’s book The Revolt of the Elites. Although its language was sometimes over-blown—one section is entitled “The Banality of Pseudo-Self-Awareness: Theatrics of Politics and Everyday ...