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.

Hunter’s commissioned composers. In 2023, he wrote Portraits and Diversions, for orchestra, in honor of Leonard and Judy Lauder. The Lauders (Leonard died in 2025) have long been known for their art ...

On a concert by the National Symphony Orchestra, at the Trump Kennedy Center.

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 ...

While Dueñas was playing, a woman sneaked down the aisle, back to her seat. Apparently, she had left after the Beethoven, not realizing that there would be an encore. This time she had her shoes—those ...

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

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 ...