My father was born in 1910. He rarely called underpants ‘underpants’. He called them ‘indescribables’ or ‘unmentionables’, and into them he put his ‘benders’, ‘underpinners’ or — wait for it — ‘crural ...

Composed for string orchestra and later orchestrated for full orchestra, Fiddle-Faddle was completed January 1, 1947. It is 3 minutes and 10 seconds long. It was first performed for string orchestra ...

Australian Mark van der Goot is a man with a passion for wine. Having worked as a sommelier at fine dining restaurants in Sydney and at The Greenhouse in Mayfair (when it was owned by David Levin), he ...

Astounding craft abounds in “Ferdydurke,” which ends its Odyssey Theatre Ensemble engagement Wednesday. Although specialized, this 1998 adaptation of Polish literary giant Witold Gombrowicz’s classic ...

Joshua Bell has gotten over the time he fiddled and no one applauded. In an experiment conducted by the Washington Post, Bell, one of the finest and most famous violinists on the planet, set up in a ...