Maybe it's the speed. Maybe it's her dad's ambition for her. Maybe it's those few seconds on the race track when the rest of the world falls away. Story [Times photo: Bill Serne]

Have style, will travel
Translated from the Spanish by Olga Markof-Belaeff

All that Ken Burns jazz
If Ken Burns' gargantuan documentary Jazz were a piece of music, it would probably resemble Duke Ellington's Newport Jazz Suite; a piece of music so powerful it pushed 7,000 fans to a near-riot when the maestro performed it during the Newport Jazz Festival in 1956.

Arts Talk
A noteworthy appointment

Audio Files
BEETHOVEN: MIDDLE QUARTETS; BUDAPEST STRING QUARTET (BRIDGE) -- So many Beethoven cycles, so little time. It would be impossible to choose a single set of recordings of Beethoven's 16 string quartets plus the Grosse Fuge, because there are so many splendid ones.