Mr. Mauceri is the author of “The War on Music — Reclaiming the Twentieth Century.” There is a trope often heard in discussions about culture that classical music is irrelevant — an elite and moribund ...

Last week the war song bottleneck appeared to be broken. Three were going great guns: > Lyricist Frank Loesser’s Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition! (inspired by a Navy Chaplain’s historic remark ...