Three hundred years ago, Johann Sebastian Bach came to Leipzig as cantor. This was celebrated extensively at the Bachfest. His works continue to shape the music world today. When Johann Sebastian Bach ...
As a listener and sometime performer, I feel the same anxiety about living long enough to experience Bach's 200-plus sacred cantatas, the largest, most ingeniously varied and certainly greatest body ...
Founder and Artistic Director Thomas Crawford leads the American Classical Orchestra (ACO), New York City's foremost period instrument orchestra, in a program of much-loved Bach cantatas at the ...
LEIPZIG, Germany — What will Bachfest Leipzig do for an encore? You had to wonder almost from the start of this year’s installment, last Friday. The festival ...
When Johann Sebastian Bach took over as Thomaskantor in Leipzig in 1723, he wrote his most beautiful cantatas for church services. He would never have dreamed that this "everyday music" would one day ...