As the floor feels solid and sturdy and eternal, so feel I feel about the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach wrote his 6 Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin in 1720. They feel as eternal as the ...

Where to begin in praise of this extraordinary 222-CD box set of the complete works of JS Bach? To compile a complete edition of JS Bach’s music to mark the 333rd anniversary of his birth seems at ...

In his first book, The Life You Save May Be Your Own, Elie wrote a group portrait of writers—Thomas Merton, Flannery O’Connor, Dorothy Day, Walker Percy—whose writings and lives could be connected by ...

As the floor feels solid and sturdy and eternal, so feel I feel about the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach wrote his 6 Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin in 1720. They feel as eternal as the ...

Revelatory Mahan Esfahani, Keith Jarrett live in 1987 and Olivier Latry at the Proms Now that we so often hear Bach’s keyboard works played on the piano (and the debate about whether it’s even ...

Jeff Spurgeon: In New York City, there are lots of ways to get to Carnegie Hall: the subway, a taxi, a walk down 57th Street. You've just found another way to get to America's most famous home for ...

Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. Glass, like Bach before him, ...

Earlier today, President Obama led the city of Boston at an interfaith service at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston. It was an emotional tribute in which the President Obama vowed that Boston ...

In the real world, the ’60s tidal wave hit in 1968: the Tet Offensive; the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy; les evenements de mai, in France; Prague, Chicago, Mexico ...