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
Atonality and Beyond
The century when composers and audiences parted company
An Epic in Flux
Gilgamesh, the world’s first great literary work, is still being pieced together
Lenny’s Little Chats
Envy the children who learned music from the maestro, Leonard Bernstein
On Virtuosity
A mastery of technique ought to be exalted, not disdained
