How Joyce DiDonato’s childhood inspired her role in ‘Amahl and the Night Visitors’

Gian Carlo Menotti’s opera “Amahl and the Night Visitors” is coming to New York’s Lincoln Center Theater. The production ...
Buffalo Rising

From Bach to Broadway: JoAnn’s Classical Christmas Sparkles with Holiday Magic at Kleinhans

The BPO Classics Series presents JOANN’S CLASSICAL CHRISTMAS, Friday, December 12 at 10:30 am and Saturday, December 13 at ...

Seattle Bach Festival’s ‘Christmas Oratorio’ offers ‘Messiah’ alternative

Seattle Bach Festival is offering a different way into the Christmas story that trades the grand sweep of Handel's "Messiah" ...
Los Angeles Times

The best of L.A.’s classical music scene in 2025

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. No one needs reminding that 2025 began in an L.A. aflame. Musicians didn’t escape the fires, especially in ...
The Boston Globe

Former MIT scientist funded by Epstein made racist and sexist claims in private emails

Joscha Bach, an AI researcher, worked at the MIT Media Lab from 2014 to 2016. He was hired in large part because of Epstein’s donations. Joscha Bach, a former MIT Media Lab researcher whose work there ...
Smithsonian Magazine

These Bach Compositions Were Lost to History. They Were Just Performed for the First Time in 300 Years—and You Can Listen to Them

Wolfram Weimer, the German culture minister; Peter Wollny, director of the Bach Archive in Leipzig; and Burkhard Jung, Leipzig's mayor pictured with the two compositions Jens Schlüter / Bach Archive ...
NPR

Chris Thile is taking Bach on location in latest recording

Grammy-winning mandolin player Chris Thile is out with a new album. This time he is taking the music of J.S. Bach to different locations. It's easy to think of classical music as being confined to a ...
Wall Street Journal

Bach Is Back, With Two ‘New’ Works for Organ

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 ...
dw

Newly discovered organ pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach

Two previously unknown pieces by the German composer have been revealed by the Bach Archive in Leipzig — just in time for the research institute's 75th anniversary ...
Classic FM

Rediscovered Bach organ works performed for the first time in 300 years

Two long-lost organ pieces by J.S. Bach have been performed publicly in Germany for the first time in more than three centuries. The Chaconne in D minor, BWV 1178, and the Chaconne in G minor, BWV ...
Artnet

Previously Unknown Bach Compositions Are Played for the First Time in Over 300 Years

In 1992, Peter Wollny uncovered a pair of chaconnes, a series of variations played over a short, repeated bass line, in the Royal Library of Belgium that seemed indicative of Bach’s early compositions ...
France 24

'Guess who's Bach?': Two long-lost organ works by Bach unveiled in Germany

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, ...