Martha Argerich at synagogue

Bessie Smith was a blues and jazz singer of the Harlem Renaissance who is still known as the ‘Empress of the Blues’. Elizabeth ‘Bessie’ Smith was the youngest child of seven, born in Chattanooga, Tennessee […]

Look Again: European Paintings—Rethinking Spain & The Spanish Americas​ One thing I’m definitely going to do when I get home to New York next week is to visit the newly renovated and reinstalled ​European Paintings […]

We have been informed by people who have spoken to her daughter that the wonderful English soprano April Cantelo has died in Oxfordshire at the age of 96. A pupil of Britten’s associate Joan Cross, […]