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 ...
It’s difficult to picture the greatest composer of all time as a harried employee, struggling to haul his magnificent creations up a mountain of bureaucratic indifference. Yet the few letters left ...
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 ...
A guided LSD trip inspired the album, said Musgraves. The "Golden Hour" singer heard a melancholy Bach song during her trip and it led to the album's tragedy theme. Visit Insider's homepage for more ...
Bach’s Mass in B minor does not usher you in gently. The orchestra and full chorus leap in together on the first note, gravely and emphatically asking for mercy. Kyrie, kyrie, eleison, eleison. I am ...
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 ...
Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” were first published in 1741 and consisted of an aria and 30 variations made up of 32 measures each – a sampler of Western dance music enjoyed during his time. In her new ...
Next Saturday evening (November 1), my son Sam and his brilliant colleague, pianist and harpsichordist Ralitza Patcheva, will be performing the complete “Art of the Fugue” by JS Bach in Washington DC ...
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 ...
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With cowboy boots and farming equipment hanging from the ceiling, the Tractor Tavern in Seattle isn’t your usual setting for Bach’s Suites for Unaccompanied Cello. But the place was packed recently ...
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