Welcome Musical Distractions: Piano, Then Parsifal and Handel On a recent evening, while the rest of the world was glued to the spectacle of bombs raining down on By Charles Michener
Welcome Musical Distractions: Piano, Then Parsifal and Handel On a recent evening, while the rest of the world was glued to the spectacle of bombs raining down on By Charles Michener
Stirring-and Slightly Abbreviated-War and Peace Comes to the Met Opera-the most problematic of entertainments-is also the art form most capable of breathing fresh life into a historical episode, a By Charles Michener