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 ...
Colin MacKnight is getting "organized." Starting Wednesday, he's planning to perform the entire collected organ works of Baroque master Johann Sebastian Bach this year, marking the 275th anniversary ...
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, ...
It’s exciting news, if a bit niche: Researchers have attributed two new works to Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). The announcement this week coincided with the 75th anniversary of the Bach Archive ...
Colin MacKnight has set himself a challenge that few organists would dare to tackle. MacKnight, director of music at Little Rock's Trinity Cathedral, is already in the midst of a Herculean task -- to ...
Two long-lost organ pieces written by a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach were unveiled in Germany on Monday in a discovery described as a "great moment for the world of music". The two solo organ works, ...
PETER WOLLNY: The two new pieces helped me to understand more deeply how Bach's musical language developed in his early years. I learned a lot about this genius. SIMON: Peter Wollny directs the Bach ...
This year's program offers several ways to experience Johann Sebastian Bach's music on the church's Holtkamp pipe organ. On Friday at 7:30 p.m., concert-goers will be treated to a selection of Bach's ...
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 ...