As summarized by T. S. Eliot: “Bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better.” Mr. William Butler Yeats borrowed an old Irish folk song and made it into one of the most ...

New York often gives you a conflict. Last night, at 7:30, in Alice Tully Hall, Susan Graham, the eminent American mezzo-soprano, gave a recital, along with the pianist Malcolm Martineau, an eminent ...

But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears. With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the help of the North Carolina poet Sally ...

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.

This is likely to be a divisive release. The counter tenor as a vocal soloist hardly registered for more than a century before the arrival of Alfred Deller in the mid-20th century. But here is ...