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Jan 16, 2025 | 
theimaginativeconservative.org | Roger Scruton
By and large the educated elites in the Western world today are without religious belief and often animated by what I call a “culture of repudiation,” keen to banish old ideas of the sacred from public life and to remake the institutions and structures of civil society so as to reflect their own liberated lifestyle. This attitude tends to go hand in hand with a rejection of traditional morality and the customs that sustain ordinary people in their daily lives.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
dialnet.unirioja.es | Roger Scruton
Ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Buscar en la ayuda La primera persona del plural [1] Birkbeck College (Reino Unido) Localización: Estudios públicos, ISSN-e 0716-1115, Nº. 56 (Primavera 1994), 1994 Idioma: español EnlacesTexto completo Resumen Gran parte de la literatura reciente sobre el tema de las nacionalidades conlleva implícita una crítica al nacionalismo como ideología y a la nación resultante de ella.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
newcriterion.com | James Panero |Keith Windschuttle |Gary Saul Morson |Roger Scruton
Each year, at the end of the Royal Theatre season in Copenhagen, auditions are held for the ballet school. Children, for the most part between the ages of eight and eleven, come to the school for the entrance examination. The audition room is an old ballet studio with worn wooden floors whose walls are lined with portraits of August Bournonville, and in one corner is a bust of this nineteenth-century ballet master and choreographer who created the Danish ballet style.
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Jun 9, 2024 | 
newcriterion.com | James Panero |Keith Windschuttle |Gary Saul Morson |Roger Scruton
In 2009, Lorin Maazel concluded his tenure at the New York Philharmonic by conducting a big Mahler symphony.
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May 22, 2024 | 
newcriterion.com | James Panero |Keith Windschuttle |Gary Saul Morson |Roger Scruton
My favorite Democrat is Ruy Teixeira, a Washington think-tanker who has lately migrated from the increasingly left-wing Center for American Progress to the not exactly right-wing American Enterprise Institute.
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May 8, 2024 | 
newcriterion.com | Roger Kimball |James Panero |Deborah Solomon |Roger Scruton
“They don’t build things like that anymore!” Such expostulations—usually heard in the vicinity of palaces, ancient ruins, and cathedrals—have always been lazy, but one brief glance at Living Tradition: The Architecture and Urbanism of Hugh Petter demonstrates they are also patently untrue.
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May 7, 2024 | 
newcriterion.com | Roger Kimball |Deborah Solomon |Richard Selzer |Roger Scruton
Nonfiction:Venetian Disegno: New Frontiers, circa 1420–1620, edited by Maria Aresin & Thomas Dalla Costa (Ad Ilissum): From Vasari we learn that Venetian painters prized colore (color) above disegno (drawing or design). It’s an appealing notion (and who, looking at the work of Titian, would dare disagree?), but one that, as Maria Aresin and Thomas Dalla Costa argue in a new book, “can no longer be upheld in the light of modern scholarship. . . .
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May 6, 2024 | 
newcriterion.com | Roger Kimball |Richard Selzer |Deborah Solomon |Roger Scruton
As Yefim Bronfman walked to the piano on Sunday afternoon, I thought, “This is one of the most familiar sights in New York”—or the classical-music division of New York. Over the last twenty-five years, has there been a more frequent soloist in this city (whether in concertos or recitals)? Tied with Bronfman, perhaps, is his friend and fellow pianist Emanuel Ax.Bronfman played a recital in Carnegie Hall yesterday. It began with Schubert: his Sonata in A minor, D. 784.
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May 3, 2024 | 
newcriterion.com | Roger Scruton |Heather Mac Donald |James Panero |Gary Saul Morson
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENEW YORK, May 3, 2024—Last night Ronald S. Lauder was honored by The New Criterion with the eleventh Edmund Burke Award for Service to Culture and Society at a gala dinner at the Metropolitan Club in New York City. TheEdmund Burke Award celebrates individuals who have made conspicuous contributions to the defense of civilization.
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May 3, 2024 | 
newcriterion.com | Roger Scruton |Heather Mac Donald |James Panero |Jay Nordlinger
Germany has many orchestras, just as it should, given the history of music. The No. 1 orchestra in Germany, undoubtedly, is the Berlin Philharmonic. What is No. 2? I will not hazard to rank (beyond the first position). But the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra is a very good orchestra. It is a young one, too, as these things go: founded in 1949. Its conductors have been first-class ones: Eugen Jochum, Rafael Kubelík, Sir Colin Davis, Lorin Maazel, Mariss Jansons—and now Sir Simon Rattle.
