William Walton composed his “What Cheer?” in 1961. But that carol hearkens back to an earlier form, and its words date to, ...

On the U.S. semiquincentennial.

“Chronological order is not the only order,” says Jay in this episode, but “it’s not a bad” one. The episode starts in the sixteenth century—“Gaudete, Christus est natus.” It stays there for a while ...

Paul du Quenoy on the season-opening new production of Lohengrin at the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma.

Paul du Quenoy on the season-opening new production of Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,” at La Scala.

When war broke out again in Europe on September 1, 1939, the Depression-era U.S. Army was only some 170,000 soldiers ...

Gentz called the American Revolution “defensive” and the French one “offensive.” Maistre traced the latter’s most offensive ...

But Lear is not bluffing. He intends to retire from kingship and divide his kingdom, and he does retire from kingship and ...

On “Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time,” by Dietrich Neumann.

T he Declaration of Independence was the banner under which the American Revolution was fought. “We hold these truths to be ...