When a political party loses an election, its supporters typically respond in one of two ways. There is, first, a constructive response: let’s figure out what went wrong and try to fix it so that the ...
Once, at a gallery show I was visiting, the artist pointed to a painting of two gun-toting soldiers and told me it was the one piece that hadn’t yet sold. “Nobody wants pictures of guns hanging up in ...
On a concert featuring Maxim Vengerov in Carnegie Hall. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Email Mozart wrote five violin concertos, all but one of them in the same year—1775, when he was ...
Jay begins with the song for which the podcast is named: “Music for a While,” by Purcell. He ends with some theme music by the late Quincy Jones, “The Streetbeater.” In between are Mendelssohn, Liszt, ...