J.S. Bach's birthday is March 21. Today, Bach is easily one of the top three most revered composers (along with Beethoven and Mozart), but that wasn’t always the case. Eighty years after Bach died, ...

The Sept. 24 death of prominent conductor and musicologist Christopher Hogwood came just as the orchestra he founded in 1973, the Academy of Ancient Music, was set to take on some of his signature ...

Rather than the usual aural assault, this morning I decided to tune my radio to 89.9 FM (WKCR here in NYC), who are celebrating the life of Johann Sebastian Bach all week during their annual “Bach ...

BERLIN (AP) - A portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach considered one of the most important paintings in the classical music world is being returned to his home city after a 250-year odyssey that took it ...

Offering "30 Days of Peace and Music," Bachstock is WQXR's November festival devoted to the life and times of J.S. Bach ...

This is the city where Johann Sebastian Bach spent his final 27 years and composed many of his major works, including the St. Matthew and St. John Passions, the Mass in B Minor, the "Art of the Fugue" ...

I write this as my town of Boston is under a lockdown as authorities continue looking for the younger of the two perpetrators of the marathon bombings. During this time of uncertainty, pain and ...

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“O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!” The words of the Psalm look bright on the page, but the music pulls them into shadow. The key is G minor. The bass instruments drone on ...

In difficult times, when joy is hard to come by and peace on Earth elusive, nothing elevates the human spirit quite like the ...