And liturgy is more than aesthetics. The Tridentine liturgy is one cultural expression, largely for traditionalist Catholics. There are others, more sensitive to local cultures. But what I miss in ...

The warmth and majesty of Verdi’s score creates pictures within the cold exteriors, the orchestra of the Royal Opera House under Daniel Oren revelling in both the ceremonial grandeur and the ...

While rooted in tropes of the Chicano aesthetic—intrinsic to Chavarria, who was raised in California by a Mexican father from a farm worker family and an Irish American mother also from the ...