“They are still fighting, unfaltering in their determination to defend their country.”

"For two years, Ukraine has fought with great courage to repel a brutal Russian invasion. They are still fighting, unfaltering in their determination to defend their country and defend the principles of freedom and democracy."

While Dudamel is not a composer like Bernstein, his commitment to education and his advocacy for new music — both pillars for Borda and her team in California — have been as unfaltering as his great predecessor’s.

A biologist at the California Academy of Sciences’s Steinhart Aquarium, Mr. Perkins belongs to that unfaltering set — hospital personnel, firefighters, point guards — whose work pauses for no holiday.

“As played with unfaltering bravura and wit by Robert Morse, he is a rumpled, dimpled angel with a streak of Lucifer.”