Charles and Mary Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare
Sophisticated and never condescending
When the Angry Lion Roared
Pierre Boulez and the piece that marked his breakthrough as a composer
Great Escape
On Normandy’s coast a century ago, Claude Debussy fled the war and composed his final piano masterpiece
Road Show
The woodblock prints of Utagawa Hiroshige
Boy Wonder
Remembering Lorin Maazel
Incident at Mittersill
A new opera explores the mysterious death of the composer Anton Webern
The World All Before Them
Setting off on footpaths both well-trod and forgotten
A Day in the Life
Reading Joyce’s Ulysses as a guide to urban living
Vibrato Wars
Elgar, served neat and unshaken, stirs up the Brits
Cal & Liz & Ted & Sylvia
The corresponding prose of midcentury poets
