Brian Lenz

Here’s a subjective question for you: Do you prefer your art to be fully understandable or more abstract? Would you...

On Saturday night I was almost late for the opera. I was coming directly from a full day of working...

What did you do Sunday night? I’ll dare take a wild guess that you watched Game of Thrones. And I’ll...

What do you find more compelling; perfection or vulnerability? Pardon the existential nature of my introduction (that’s kind of how...

The name Mozart, like Shakespeare, bears a certain weight. It has become synonymous with ‘perfection’ and elicits an expectation from...

In my earliest memory of baseball I’m probably four years old. At dusk on a summertime farm in Iowa I remember...

Do you remember the 1984 film Amadeus? Particularly the scene in which the genius protagonist is bedridden and needs...

Who’s to say what separates a good musical from a bad one? Jack Viertel, that’s who. Author of The Secret...

Remember “The Godfather” movies? I only saw them once but certain scenes are burned into my memory so hard they’ll...