It was late: 8:15. Yuja Wang’s recital at Carnegie Hall was supposed to start at 8—which in New York concert terms means 8:05. Was the young Chinese pianist fashionably late or more like strangely ...

“We few, we happy few.” That was Shakespeare’s Henry V anticipating the English army’s coming victory-against-all-odds at the Battle of Agincourt. He was thinking of how lucky people were to be there ...