Music
Holy Agony
'Dialogues of the Carmelites' is an opera of questions: What does it mean to die well? To die in fear? Are there bad ways to be a martyr for Christ?
Buried Treasure
Miles Davis Quintet
Live in Europe 1969
The Bootleg Series Vol. 2
Sony—Legacy Records, $49.98
When it comes to musical rediscovery, this is...
A Jazz Mass?
Last year marked the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Mary Lou Williams, the jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. There are few women in the pantheon of great...
‘Great Art Survives'
Ian Marcus Corbin talks with jazz great Dave Brubeck about music, Catholicism, and liturgy.
Pied Piper of Dehra Doon
For the past twenty-five years, I have dreamed that one day I would convince Charlie King, the American folk singer and social-change activist, to come for a...
Devils, Dust & God
From the rising death toll in Iraq to the chaos created by Hurricane Katrina to the devastating earthquake in Kashmir, this year has been one of unthinkable grief....
Like a Prayer
For the better part of the last month my iPod has served as little more than a delivery vehicle for the music of Sufjan Stevens, a thirty-year-old Brooklyn-...
Rolling Along
Somewhere between pure pop music-music that succeeds or fails on the basis of its popularity-and genre music lies a kind of music that critic Robert Christgau...
Nearly Good as Gould
Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations (1741) has rightly entered the domain of musical myth. By all evidence Bach believed that music was essential...
Music of the Invisible
Saint François d’Assise, Olivier Messiaen’s only operatic work, received its world premiere in Paris in 1983. It has rarely been performed since,...
Music as Sacrament
I am a Connecticut Yankee transplanted from the Midwest. I have never worshiped the sun, never sought the heat. But this past June I headed due and deep south...
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