Apr 28, 2020
The Critic’s Notebook
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On classical architecture, Carnegie Hall, the New York City Ballet & more.
On classical architecture, Carnegie Hall, the New York City Ballet & more.
On an all-Bach recital by Daniil Trifonov; Beethoven trios with Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, and Leonidas Kavakos; and livestream concerts with the New York Festival of Song, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Miller Theater at Columbia University.
On Edward H. Levi and computer music.
On Faulkner, Peter Kayafas, remote Rembrandt & more from the world of culture.
Jay Nordlinger, music critic of The New Criterion, talks music—but, more important, plays music.
On the St Matthew Passion, Wordsworth on pictures & the original James Bond.
On an astronomer and a conundrum.
On Thomas Cole, Leonard Bernstein, the Yale Series of Younger Poets & more from the world of culture.
On Charles Wuorinen (1938–2020).
On British masonry, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Internet Archive & more from the world of culture.