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Valery Gergiev digs into Stravinsky�the most international of composers�to find his Russian roots.

Why they should let Jean Nouvel build every inch of his arrogant tower, and other thoughts on what makes a cityscape great.

Jean Nouvel’s Tower Verre was going to be the biggest thing to hit the midtown skyline since the Empire State Building. Then the city told him to chop off 200 feet. Scoffs the French architect: Why is Manhattan, of all places, afraid of heights?

Peter Gelb’s first full season at the Met produced one shining moment� and a lot of fizzles.

The history of New York can be told in the ebbing and flowing of its neighborhoods.

Celebrating Thomas Adès, the composer-pianist-conductor of his generation.

Can Ivan Fischer put the shock back into �Eroica�?

After decades of putting up awful buildings, Columbia tries to break its streak.

Five architects’ plans for managing a globally warmed future.

At the Met’s new Attila, the sets are by Herzog & de Meuron and the costumes by Prada—but the show’s a lot better if you ignore them both.