The Case for Classical Music

by Mark Bauerlein

Daniel Asia joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Observations on Music, Culture, and Politics. Continue Reading »

25 Oct 2021

Love With No Future

by David P. Goldman

The Ring of Truth: The Wisdom of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelungby roger scrutonallen lane, 368 pages, $19.99Of all the personalities that produced enduring art, Richard Wagner’s was perhaps the most repulsive. A blackmailer, philanderer, deadbeat, paranoid, and anti-Semite, Wagner invites his . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2017

Why We Can't Hear Wagner's Music

by David P. Goldman

Late in the nineteenth century, men and women in apparent possession of their senses heard Richard Wagner’s new operas and announced that their lives had changed forever. Charles Baudelaire saw Tannhäuser in 1861 and gushed, “Listening to this impassioned, despotic music, painted upon the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2010

Malignant Genius

by Algis Valiunas

Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900) was the nineteenth century’s most penetrating writer on music, as he was on much else, and he was also a gifted . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Nov 2004

Sing Unto the Lord

by Michael Linton

In opera, it’s good to be the tenor. You get the high notes, you get the girl, and you get the big fees. And this has been a half century rich in remarkable tenors. Perhaps there has been no voice so purely beautiful as Luciano Pavarotti’s (or as profitable), and probably no singer so broadly . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2000