The conductor Nathalie Stutzmann led Lorin Maazel’s coolly efficient 1987 distillation, “The ‘Ring’ Without Words,” at David Geffen Hall.

After falling five votes short of Baseball Hall of Fame last year, Billy Wagner is hopeful on his final year on ballot.

BILLY WAGNER, once a top closer, on waiting to find out whether he will make the Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday. This is his last year on the writers’ ballot; he fell five votes short of being ...

Dan and Becky Okrent spent seven years on the Met Project, a labor of love that took them from ancient Sumer to Synchronism.