Balanchine had intended the role to be interpreted as a princess, rather than as a queen, carrying the ethereal, regal ...

If we wish to understand our world, we would do well to initiate our studies by reading and rereading the Athenian’s account of his own world and of the upheavals it underwent in the course of his ...

Today, March 4, is National Grammar Day: an occasion, the NGD website tells us, to “celebrate good grammar in both our written and spoken communication.” Since I am a linguist and get my quotidian ...

On “The Day is Gone: 100 Years of New Objectivity,” at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

The first work was Ein Heldenleben, “A Hero’s Life,” by Richard Strauss. Who’s the hero of that one? Why, the composer ...

From the emergence of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919 to the 1956 Hungarian Revolution to the controversial current government, Hungary has, for more than a century, played an ...

Paul du Quenoy on a revival of “Boris Godunov,” at the Royal Opera.

On Heroes of the Gale: A History of Fionn and the Fianna, by Natasha Sumner. Natasha Sumner does not answer that question in her latest book, Heroes of the Gale: A History of Fionn and the Fianna. She ...

The Ligeti was his Étude No. 4, “Fanfares,” from 1985. It was light and limpid, and flavored with jazz. The Liszt was the Rhapsodie espagnole, from 1858. It is jaw-droppingly difficult. And Mr. Liu ...