The Misread City

For my latest Influences column, I speak to left-of-the-dial opera soprano Juliana Snapper , who will be part of a festival of new work at R...

Music history looks different when you track it not by groups or musicians, eras or styles, but by the songs themselves. Tha...

ONE of my liveliest conversations with an author came the day a few years ago when I met with the crime-fiction writer Don Winslow . We met ...

THIS week, British film composer George Fenton -- he wrote the scores to Gandhi, Groundhog Day, The History Boys, lots of Ken Loach films, a...

LAST night, several thousand of us said so long to Glen Campbell. His Hollywood Bowl concert was a kind of cross between a straightforward f...

THIS week has seen an exchange between young music fan Emily White and indie rocker David Lowery about how fans consume music these days, an...

THIS week my Influences column looked at Ellen Geer, who runs the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum. For those many miles from the wilds of Top...