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Week in review | The New Criterion
Aug 2, 2024 · Jacob Howland, UnHerd. At the heart of civilization lie separation and distinction: between parent and child, teacher and student, human and animal, human and god. We learn this in Genesis, in which Creation consists in the separation of day and night, heaven and the waters, land and sea, and so on. But the earth was first formless—and, as we ...
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Music for a While #89: Ragtime & other riches. by. Jay Nordlinger. Jay Nordlinger, The New Criterion ’s music critic, talks music—but, more important, plays music. SIGN-UP. April 22, 2024. Jay Nordlinger. Jay Nordlinger, The New Criterion ’s music critic, talks music—but, more important, plays music.
“Puccini meets Pasolini,” by Paul du Quenoy. - The New Criterion
Aug 1, 2024 · by. Paul du Quenoy. On Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca at the Bavarian State Opera, Munich. Tosca is a difficult opera to stage outside of its strictly prescribed time and setting. Based on the French playwright Victorien Sardou’s 1887 play La Tosca, Giacomo Puccini’s opera of love smothered by depravity, which premiered in 1900, is set in three ...
“Week in review,” by Suzanna Murawski
Oct 4, 2024 · On authenticating a Picasso, Macmillan Publishers & the Palais Stoclet. It’s not unthinkable that you would find an anonymous, rolled-up painting—at a flea market, say—and hang it up in your home for a splash of color. But it’s pretty unusual to discover later on that the work is a bona fide Picasso. Just that happened to Luigi Lo Rosso ...
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Oct 8, 2024 · Nonfiction: The Art of Medieval Falconry, by Yannis Hadjinicolaou (Reaktion Books): Notwithstanding RFK Jr.’s less-than-felicitous encounters with the animal kingdom, it would have pleased Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II to know that America’s most famous falconer circa 2024 is, or at least was, a candidate for our highest office. The author of the first treatise on the subject, De arte ...
“San Diego’s fresh sound,” by Nathan C. Stewart
Oct 9, 2024 · Nathan C. Stewart. On the opening night concert of the newly renovated Jacobs Music Center in San Diego. One of the factors upon which the quality of an orchestra is conditioned is the acoustics of its performance space. The hall sets the sounds made by the musicians in conversation with the ears of not only the audience, but also the players.
“The Critic’s Notebook,” by the Editors
Sep 24, 2024 · Each week the editors of The New Criterion offer recommendations on what to read, see, and hear in the world of culture in the weekly Critic’s Notebook. To get it first, subscribe to the free Critic’s Notebook email by clicking here. On Louise P. Sloane, an evening of piano, the Basilica Aemilia, rare books & more from the world of culture.
“Tocqueville versus progressive democracy,” by Daniel J. Mahoney
Daniel J. Mahoney. On intellectual elites in a democracy. Editors’ note: “Democracy in America: a symposium” examines the status of popular sovereignty in the United States today, nearly two centuries after the seminal work of the political theorist Alexis de Tocqueville. Other participants include Roger Kimball, Victor Davis Hanson ...
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