Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A holiday album that cuts through seasonal glut, a late collaboration by Jim McNeely and Helmut Lachenmann’s string quartets are among the highlights.

If August and September meant two months in Rome for a single work—Britten’s Turn of the Screw, with six weeks of rehearsal and five performances—October has been much more of a mixed bag, with three ...

Classical conditioning, also called Pavlovian conditioning or respondent conditioning, is learning through association. This behavioral learning method was first studied in the late 19th century by ...

Operant conditioning, sometimes called instrumental conditioning or Skinnerian conditioning, is a method of learning that uses rewards and punishment to modify behavior. Through operant conditioning, ...

One of the most talked about and acclaimed young singers on the international scene these days is the 38-year-old bass-baritone Davóne Tines. Local audiences have two upcoming opportunities to ...

The scent of jasmine hung lightly in the air. Soft golden lights glimmered off silk dupattas and sherwanis. This wasn’t just another evening in the city, it was an invitation to step back in time. “We ...

I first came to Italy 43 years ago, in my nine months off between school and university, and it was an epiphany, if not one quite on the scale of Stendhal’s. Visiting Florence for the first time in ...

Since mid-summer, I've been listening to the New World Records release of music by Raven Chacon that opens with his instrumental piece "Voiceless Mass," which received the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for ...

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Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

As part of our Guide to the Arts in PRIME Magazine, entertainment writer Ben Crandell offered his Critic’s Picks for the best in classical music shows coming up in ...

Participation is plummeting in the community-driven feature that X owner Elon Musk touted as the solution to the social media site’s misinformation problems. Submissions to X’s Community Notes, which ...