Classics

Michael Fitzgerald is the principal of a private elementary school in New York focused on classics, immersion in nature, and nurturing strong moral character.

We need to see the classical education model revived in our schools.

Studying the classics, if done properly, helps us flourish as human beings.

A group of young musicians who hail from homeschooling backgrounds have crossed states and blended musical styles to ...

Commentary We’ve crossed the three-year mark of the worst years for freedom in our lifetimes. What do we ...

Lately, I’ve been reading from M.F.K. Fisher’s "The Art of Eating." I say “from” because this thick volume ...

Yes, yes, and yes! That was what I shouted, in the silence of my heart, when I finished ...

Once upon a time, an understanding of the ancient past was the hallmark of any educated person in ...

“Every man is called upon to be a statesman seeing that every man and woman, too, has a ...

Despite shutdowns that spread across the world last year and caused the performing arts industry to grind to ...

"The Water Margin," also known in English as "Outlaws of the Marsh" or "All Men Are Brothers," is ...

The "Aeneid" by the Roman poet Virgil is an epic poem in 12 books that tells the story ...

For Stuart Holt, opera is awe-inspiring storytelling and, in many ways, the Olympian limb of the classical arts. ...

When Susan Woodard, professor emeritus of music, was just beginning her teaching career, she heard a colleague declare, ...

For fine arts painter George Ceffalio, the importance of classical realistic art is self-evident. "You see [realistic art] ...

Why the classics are important today is a radical question, according to John Henry Crosby, the founder and ...

NEW YORK—Charlie Mostow likes to keep things simple—from the singular to the universal. Everything he does, everything he ...

Historian and educator Jason Goetz looks to the classics as a means for our culture to survive. As ...

The classics offer artists endless inspiration, says baritone Darren Chase.

Author, radio host, pianist, and arguably the nation's foremost expert on 20th-century pianists David Dubal had spent the morning practicing ...

Mandy Hallenius co-founded the DaVinci Initiative to help children gain realistic drawing and painting skills as well as ...

For Kern, the classics, especially literature, tap into this deep impulse to learn, to appreciate, and, at bottom, ...

Ballerina Ashley Tuttle sees classical ballet, like all the classic arts, as trying to get at truthful expression.

Accompanied by a pianist, 11 violinists in formal evening attire (only two of them men) stood across the stage ...

Cradling the violin under his chin, holding the bow just so, a 5-year-old violinist was rendering a lovely ...

Paul Jacobs, the only organist to ever win a Grammy, believes that the classics transform humanity's inevitable pain ...

Actress Tracy Arnold describes how classic stories and the age-old medium of theater ease our loneliness.