The Leipzig Bach Festival honors the composer with a hit parade. Over 7,000 fans from 20 countries cast their votes. But Bach ...
The world of classical music has gotten a modern makeover. The Bach Society of Saint Louis has spent 85 years celebrating the work of Johann Sebastian Bach and other classical composers through ...
“I think with Bach it's much easier to practice for many hours than with some other composers,“ said Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov, who has always wanted to spend more time with Bach. “It’s so ...
Bach has been in the background for most of my life, one way or another - the Brandenburg concertos in my parents' record collection when I was a boy; the Christmas music at school; and I remember ...
Was Johann Sebastian Bach Western classical music’s “last Asian composer”? The question was raised in Bombay in March 1985 at a seminar celebrating the 300th anniversary of the birth of the great ...
A jobbing composer under pressure to produce a constant stream of music; an artist and visionary reaching the divine and speaking directly to the heart of the human experience: Bach’s sacred music is ...
One of the more unexpected side effects of the digital revolution, it seems, has been to turn us all into remixers. Unthinkable even a decade ago, we all now routinely borrow and collage, recombining ...
Classical music and craft beer are coming together in Portland as the Portland Bach Experience kicks off a series of events ...
Feeling ‘suite’ toothed? Must be the Bach... A study has been published showing how classical music makes us crave chocolate biscuits and other sweet treats. No, we’re not going crackers. This ...