Two workmanlike pieces by the teenage Bach had their New York premiere at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
The more than 200 solo organ works that bracket the prodigious composing career of Johann Sebastian Bach have long been every organist’s Bible. Rare is the organ recital that doesn’t include such ...
Mechanics Hall in Worcester is home to the famed Hook Organ, also known as the Worcester Organ. And GBH’s All Things Considered host Arun Rath sat down with Mechanics Hall principal organist Peter ...
Johann Sebastian Bach is possibly the most influential and sublime composer in history. Everyone from Mozart and Beethoven to the Beatles and Lady Gaga has paid him homage. During his life, however, ...
I often talk about my dad being 99, and good for him, but it is also true that my mother succumbed to a brain tumor in her late sixties. It came on suddenly, progressed rapidly and devastated the ...
The Kalamazoo Gazette is reprinting selected Diether Haenicke columns through the end of the year. Haenicke died Feb. 15. This column was first published Jan. 31. 2001. Kalamazoo's Bach Festival ...
He’s been dead for 243 years, but Johann Sebastian Bach can still draw a crowd. Yesterday, hundreds of music lovers made their way to St. David’s Church in Roland Park for all or part of the 17th ...
THE organist Peter Hurford, who had died aged 88, was widely acclaimed as one of the world’s leading organists and scholars. He established an international reputation for his playing and advice ...