Yeezus Follows Jesus
by Nic RowanJesus 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 »
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 »
Featuring Andrew Balio, principal trumpet of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, on the state of classical music in America today. Continue Reading »
Bowie was a canary in the coal mine of post-1960s culture, plumbing its depths and soaring above almost everyone else. Continue Reading »
Perhaps the new evangelization begins with such small gestures as the ringing of church bells. Continue Reading »
The band U2 has announced it supports the pro-abortion side in Ireland’s upcoming referendum on abortion. Continue Reading »