To understand Guillermo del Toro’s core drive and thematic interest when it came to The Shape of Water, look no further than the film’s title. “[Water] takes the shape of everything. It goes through ...

Vocalist Tania Grubbs — who crafts stories out of well-chosen songs with love and care — has released “The Sound of Love” with her quintet. The band includes pianist David Budway (Branford Marsalis, ...

The distinguished composer Kaija Saariaho, who is sixty-four, would not have seemed to be the type of musician who would excel in the world of opera. Finnish-born, but long a paragon of the Parisian ...