Natural Instincts
In deep twilight with Florence Price, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Yu Kosuge, and Sarah Kirkland Snider
Every Thursday: New articles, straight to your inbox
Campy classical
“As long as Wagner is being argued about, he remains a viable commercial quantity. I think you can suspect Wagner of almost consciously pursuing this marketing strategy. The most important thing is just to create some kind of stink.”
Alex Ross
High culture, meme culture
Good Giggles
An interview with Rhys of “Poor and/or Unaesthetic Art Music Memes for Placeholder Teens”
Prodigious pressure
ADVERTISEMENT
Hop in the VAN!
(In a totally non-creepy way.) Subscribe to VAN to support independent classical music journalism.
Most Read
Vintage Prada and Snow
Reviewing Lise Davidsen and Leif Ove Andsnes’s Grieg, Christian Tetzlaff and Lars Vogt’s Beethoven, and Adam Tendler and Jenny Lin’s Liszt
A Maria Ewing Playlist
Revisiting the performances of a singer whose biography came through in her roles
New in VAN
Every Classical Singer’s Christmas Album, Ranked
85 albums, 67 singers, 4,824 minutes, and a partridge in a pear tree