“Niche Bach, sondern Meer!” (Not a brook, but an ocean!) – opinion of Johann Sebastian Bach and pun by Ludwig van Beethoven On March 31, 1685, Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, Holy Roman ...

Even people who think they're familiar with J.S. Bach's music should be in for an adventure when the Bach Society Houston resurrects his long-lost "St. Mark Passion." The work, which Bach performed ...

Halfway through reading "Reinventing Bach," I suddenly got dizzy. An earthquake? Or could it be that Bach was working as an agent of transcendence on me as he did on this sincere author? The basic ...

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Bob Cafaro, a cellist with The Philadelphia Orchestra, played Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major Friday afternoon. His performance was not at a concert hall but at SEPTA’s Jefferson Station, and his ...

The Bach Festival Society’s “Elation and Dissent” program this weekend proved both thrilling and chilling. The thrills came in the musicality of works such as Florence Price’s “Ethiopia’s Shadow in ...

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On Tuesday, Alisa Weilerstein presented a concert of J.S. Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G major interleaved with five living composers. Who were they? Unless you grabbed a pamphlet-sized program on your ...

William Grant Still was awarded 10 honorary doctorates for his contributions to music and wrote five symphonies and eight operas. Do you know of any them? George Walker was the first Black man to win ...

Santa Fe Pro Musica will perform a feast of Bach for the holidays. Organizers divided the series into three sections, running Dec. Wednesday, Dec. 20, to Saturday, Dec. 23, and Thursday, Dec. 28, to ...