Words and Music

YOU WILL COME AWAY from this book with no doubt about Alex M. Stein’s love for his favored music. In fact, no matter how fervent a music-lov...

AS A LIFELONG CAT PERSON, I am most comfortable when my beast of the moment is snoozing on the nearby chair or prowling the house and yard f...

From the Food Vault Dept .: It’s the 25th anniversary of the review posted below, a review of a restaurant in Amsterdam, NY, that had been i...

EUGENE YSAŸE was one of last of the virtuoso violinist-composers who dominated the late 19th century, but unlike Wieniawski and Vieuxtemps, ...

Art Isn’t Easy Dept. : Just when you thought that the late John Updike had once and for all dropped his pen, along comes yet another weighty...

From the Tech Archives Dept. : I found this pair of pieces in my archives and had a terrific laugh at the enthusiasm with which I celebrated...

HAVING TOILED IN THE TRENCHES of journalism for over forty years (albeit the more rarefied trenches of classical music, theater, and other c...