If you’re in the mood for music — or at least some words about music — I have some links for you. The first, here, is to my “New York Chronicle” in the current New Criterion. This chronicle includes a Rachmaninoff rarity, the one-act opera Aleko, and a new piece by John Corigliano.

And here are some blogposts: about the late Sir Neville Marriner; about Anthony McGill in the Mozart Clarinet Concerto; about Lang Lang in the Beethoven Piano Concerto in G major; about Christian Zacharias in another Beethoven piano concerto, that in C major; about a concert of the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, with Yuja Wang, piano soloist; and, finally, about Kelli O’Hara, the Broadway singer, in Carnegie Hall.

Let me quote from that one:

O’Hara’s evening had a title, or a message: “Never Go Solo.” She explained from the stage that this was not truly a solo performance. She had her band behind her (led from the piano by Dan Lipton). And she had her many helpers and influences, in her head and heart.

I had a memory of Reagan (as I so often do). He is saying goodbye to White House personnel, just before Inauguration Day 1989. I’ll paraphrase: “You always see a picture of a president gazing out the window or something, and the caption will be ‘The loneliest job in the world.’ Well, I don’t know about them. But I haven’t been lonely one minute.”

One more link, please: This is to a column of mine headed “Trump’s GOP and Putin’s Kremlin.” Important, and painful, subjects discussed therein.