The New York City Opera and its enterprising director and principal conductor, Christopher Keene, deserve our congratulations for temerariously opening the new season with Paul Hindemith’s Mathis der ...

German-born Composer Paul Hindemith, 61, and French-born Composer Darius Milhaud, 65, both of whom have lived and taught in the U.S. for long stretches, are furiously prolific writers of serious music ...