Around the start of the seventeenth century, a new sense of the word “harmony” emerged. To that point, harmony in music had been produced by the pleasing opposition of two melodies according to the principles of counterpoint. In the 1600s, “harmony” began to denote the non-melodic . . . . Continue Reading »
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Like many other hymns, Ralph Vaughan Williams’s “For All the Saints” is an endangered species today. Continue Reading »
Jesus is King, Kanye West’s latest album, channels the theology of Martin Luther.
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Jesus Is King, released on Friday, is Kanye West's first explicitly Christian album, calling into question his role as the nation’s resident “jackass.” Continue Reading »
The movie Yesterday imagines a world without The Beatles. Continue Reading »
Denunciations of West show how brittle the nostalgic orthodoxy of black leadership has now become. Continue Reading »
Featuring Sunil Iyengar on current trends in Americans’ engagement with the arts. Continue Reading »
A recommendation for the folk duo Lowland Hum. Continue Reading »
Toscanini: Musician of Conscience by harvey sachs liveright, 944 pages, $39.95 When the first instruction manual for leaders of orchestras—Johann Mattheson’s Der vollkommene Capellmeister—appeared in 1739, it was a sign that the size of orchestral ensembles and the . . . . Continue Reading »
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