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For Stuart Holt, opera is awe-inspiring storytelling and, in many ways, the Olympian limb of the classical arts. Director of the school programs and community engagement departments of the Metropolitan ...

When Susan Woodard, professor emeritus of music, was just beginning her teaching career, she heard a colleague declare, ...

For fine arts painter George Ceffalio, the importance of classical realistic art is self-evident. "You see [realistic art] ...

Why the classics are important today is a radical question, according to John Henry Crosby, the founder and ...

Historian and educator Jason Goetz looks to the classics as a means for our culture to survive. As ...

The classics offer artists endless inspiration, says baritone Darren Chase.

There is still serious debate over the existence of man-made climate change and the negative effects of genetically ...

In one of the tensest moments in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit," Gollum is ready to eat Bilbo Baggins if ...

In the classical traditions and history of every human culture, there was a belief in the divine and ...

Cassia Harvey has written more than 160 books for cello, viola, and violin. With a methodology that trains ...

Language that uses poetic meter, knowingly or unknowingly, is among the most powerful. Perhaps the most famous line ...

"Four score and seven years ago ..." Even if you can't tell me where these six words come from, ...

People show up at an apartment, some strangers and some friends. At first there's the typical uncomfortable ice ...

A classical architect, sculptor, painter, and poet, Michael Curtis is, in no uncertain terms, a Renaissance man. He ...

For Valentine's Day, I offer you some love poems for almost any situation. The first poem, by the ...

From Mother Goose to Dr. Seuss, rhyming poetry has induced laughter in children for century after century. The ...

Very highly recommended, “Kaputt/Broken” won the Short Film Jury Award for Animation at this year’s Sundance.

Author, radio host, pianist, and arguably the nation's foremost expert on 20th-century pianists David Dubal had spent the morning practicing ...

Mandy Hallenius co-founded the DaVinci Initiative to help children gain realistic drawing and painting skills as well as ...

For Kern, the classics, especially literature, tap into this deep impulse to learn, to appreciate, and, at bottom, ...

Part 1 Level 3, Medium-Difficult: Poetry with Rhyme and Structure Traditional or classical poets usually adhere to more ...

Put simply, a sonnet is a 14-line poem. I'll take you through a simple guide that can lead ...

Man, is it nice to meet you, Newspaper Readers. My name is Poetry. I have been crammed into ...

Even the most well-meaning of new parents make mistakes. Instead of walking back and forth to their baby's ...

Ballerina Ashley Tuttle sees classical ballet, like all the classic arts, as trying to get at truthful expression.

As an indictment of CCP corruption and incompetence, ‘I am not Madame Bovary’ is impressively bold.

Very highly recommended, "Saving Mes Aynak" is persuasive portrait of courage and an infuriating indictment of utterly pointless ...