Gustav Mahler - Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Das himmlische Leben Conducted by Philippe Herreweghe

Watch The Queen’s Christmas Broadcast 2018

Fritz Wunderlich; Gundula Janowitz; Christa Ludwig; Franz Crass; "Weihnachts-oratorium" J. S. Bach

CHRISTMAS? BAH! HUMBUG! - Scrooge, or my usual day at the office

CHRISTMAS? BAH! HUMBUG! - YouTube

The Jewish Boxer Who Helped the Allies Turn the Tide of World War I

The Jewish Boxer Who Helped the Allies Turn the Tide of World War I

Escape From the Trump Cult | The New Republic

Escape From the Trump Cult | The New Republic

Anna Netrebko and Piotr Beczala chatting about the upcoming production of Adriana Lecouvreur at the Metropolitan Opera

Richard Wagner - Tristan & Isolde - Liebestod - Waltraud Meier

Gustav Mahler 5 Lieder Arranged for Flute and Piano

Maestro Joseph Colaneri with principal percussionist Greg Zuber at the Metropolitan Opera Club, chatting about Il Trittico.

The Glorious Imperial Japanese Navy 栄光の大日本帝國海軍

Friends have asked if I've hauled S/V Bacchante yet.

I remember waving at George H.W. Bush by the U.N., just before the first Gulf War. The men of my father’s wartime generation are nearly all gone. R.I.P.

‘La Traviata’ Opens a New Era at the Metropolitan Opera - The New York Times

‘La Traviata’ Opens a New Era at the Metropolitan Opera - The New York Times

Khatia Buniatishvili Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1 in C major Op 15 with the Israel Philharmonic

Khatia Buniatishvili Beethoven Piano Concerto No 1 in C major Op 15 - YouTube

Donald Palumbo, Chorusmaster in rehearsal at the Metropolitan Opera

MODEST MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition Lera Auerbach, pianist

MODEST MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition (Lera Auerbach) - YouTube

David Krauss , principal trumpet of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra chatting about Mefistofele with Maestro Joseph Colaneri at the Metropolitan Opera Club.

Our fearless leader Donald Trump in France, where rain, or perhaps those 4-F Bone spurs made it impossible to attend the ceremonies honoring the fallen of World War 1

Donald Trump's 007 Goldenhair

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An Operatic Love Story Starts Off on a Sour Note - The New York Times

An Operatic Love Story Starts Off on a Sour Note - The New York Times

Multiple Marnies - The Metropolitan Opera

A delightful Tosca, with Sondra Radvanovsky, Scarpia, Zeljko Lučić, Cavaradossi Joseph Calleja, Cond. Maestro Carlo Rizzi, tonight at the Metropolitan Opera.

THE MAGIC FLUTE Mozart - Garsington Opera -

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The new Marnie is terrific - Nico Muhly joining the cast, w/. Isabel Leonard, a remarkable Denyce Graves-Montgomery as Marnie’s mother, Iestyn Davies, Christopher Maltman, Janis Kelly and the formidable conductor Robert Spano.

Elena Garança at the Greene Space with WQXR Midday Host Annie Bergen

mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili as Amneris in the Metropolitan Opera's production of Aïda

Simon Sebag Montefiore on antisemitism, Putin’s spies and Tara’s calls | Times2 | The Times

Simon Sebag Montefiore on antisemitism, Putin’s spies and Tara’s calls | Times2 | The Times

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Maj. Gen. Sidney Shachnow, Special Forces legend, Holocaust survivor, has died

Maj. Gen. Sidney Shachnow, Special Forces legend, Holocaust survivor, has died

Vesselina Kasarova in an alchemical "Una voce poco fa" from Rossini's The Barber of Seville

WWII code breaker buried in Nebraska with UK military honors - Stripes

WWII code breaker buried in Nebraska with UK military honors - Stripes

Roberto Alagna And Elina Garança In Samson et Delilah, at the Metropolitan Opera premier

Meantime, back in Gibichung Hall, things are getting nasty. I doubt his firing will deflect the continuing investigation. - Trauermarsch (Funeral March) from Götterdämmerung, Act III

New York Review of Books Editor Is Out Amid Uproar Over #MeToo Essay - The New York Times

New York Review of Books Editor Is Out Amid Uproar Over #MeToo Essay - The New York Times

MODEST MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition (Lera Auerbach)

András Schiff - J. S. Bach. Italian Concerto in F BWV 971

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Cranes on West 57th Street New York

V. S. Naipaul is dead. Perhaps the most compelling writer, along with the recently lost Roth, of our time.

Anna Tsybuleva plays Claude Debussy "Feux d'artifice"

Alan Alda narrating a concert of Trios and the Octet from Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn for the Bridgehampton Music Festival.

Friends who have seen 'Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY should visit the Cloisters for the rest...

Sketching Thomas Hart Benton at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lang Lang is back! A benefit for the Lang Lang International Music Foundation in Southampton at the home of Chris Burch

Opinion | How Britain Lost Its Power of Seduction - The New York Times

Opinion | How Britain Lost Its Power of Seduction - The New York Times

A section of the old Tappan Zee Bridge being sent up the Hudson by West Point

Friedrich-Percyval Reck Von Malleczewen author of "Diary of a Man in Despair"

Alternativa per l'Italia - Fellini-Amarcord

A Very German Love Story: When Old Left and Far Right Share a Bedroom - The New York Times

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A Thing for Men in Uniforms | by James Kirchick | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

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St. Urbain’s Horsemen unite! Where is Mordechai Richler?

The Sorelle Fontana ‘Il Pretino’ dress worn by Ava Gardner 1956-1957 from the Met show 'Heavenly Bodies'

‘Viva Verdi,’ Say Fans With Very Verdian Names - The New York Times - Il Club dei 27 and the Metropolitan Opera Club

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Beate and Serge Klarsfeld speaking at Temple Emanu-El, New York

Review: Plácido Domingo Takes On a New Role at the Met Opera. (His 149th.) - The New York Times

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Billy Graham, 99, Dies; Pastor Filled Stadiums and Counseled Presidents - The New York Times

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The Russian Naval and Air Military Attaché's residence.

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Opera Review: Met Opens Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s Transcendent ‘Parsifal’ | Observer

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Maestro Marco Armilato with the cast of Il Trovatore at the Metropolitan Opera New York

The Woman’s March - Central Park West New York

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Roy Bennett, White Zimbabwean With Black Political Base, Dies in U.S. Helicopter Crash - The New York Times

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Waltraud Meier singing Mahler in the Dresden Fraunkirke

Amor Artis playing Bach for the New Year 2018 at the Church of the Holy Trinity in New York