Then they have to take their bows, go home to their various partners and come back the next night to desire all over again. Faking true love: How do they do it? Sitting outside the Delacorte on a sweaty afternoon, slugging water and dressed in casual rehearsal wear, the four …

Mr. Gardiner said both the madrigals and operas still speak directly to audiences more than four centuries later thanks to an emotional range that was unparalleled at the time. Unlike composers of the previous centuries, whose compositions “reflect the heavens and the divine godhead,” he said, “Monteverdi is much more …

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They were also traditionally discouraged. Despite the fact that the first person to be named as a composer, Hildegard of Bingen, was a woman, history is littered with women who’ve been told either by their brother — Fanny Mendelssohn — or by their husband — Clara Schumann and Alma Mahler …

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Your most difficult one? When people get up in your face and yell at you, call you names. My own personal journey has been: I’m going to make every question a great question and to see what I can find. Because being a black woman in America, anger and bitterness …

The market’s humbling of the bears has pulled many converts into the bullish crowd. Even those strategists who have correctly been positive on the market are flagging some surveys of professional investors that show optimism rising toward levels that can be a restraint on further short-term upside. Jeff deGraaf of …

“A proper bar,” said Eric Paris, the general manager. It is a bar where, for $15, the bartenders serve something called the “thoughtcriminal cocktail” — gin and elderflower liqueur “topped with Fever-Tree tonic and a squeeze of lemon,” Mr. Paris said — that is served in “proper glassware.” Photo Ben …