among them a historian who had won a MacArthur prize. We’d all been to an art opening, and, over dinner, a painter among us was holding forth on the work we’d seen. “As you know,” he said, bringing in ...

George Rochberg, who died Sunday at 86, was one of the leading post-World War II American composers, credited by many with restoring traditional tonality to a respectable role in classical composition ...

This is the final article in “The Postmodern Temper,” a series which examined the contemporary state of various artistic fields. Publication is made possible with support from the “New Works” Program ...