Some things require very little explanation or analysis, perhaps even none. A Rembrandt self-portrait, the film Casablanca, ...

Mozart’s variations offer a blueprint for how diverse voices can create meaning together as a “set.” Once you hear diversity that way, the entire conversation changes.

Others were openly scorned and ridiculed at their premieres, owing to a mixture of critics’ personal biases, the political ...

Concert halls and symphony orchestras try to lure younger listeners by mutilating the music. There’s a better way.