On two consecutive Sunday afternoons last month at the Union College Memorial Chapel, solo string players took deep and extended journeys into the music of J.S. Bach. On Nov. 14, violinist Jennifer ...

Here on the Monterey Peninsula, Bach’s music comes to us abundantly through the Carmel Bach Festival and this week the ...

A rehearsal of the Bach Vocal Artists, as they prepare Rachmaninoff’s “All-Night Vigil,” brings insight and peace.

It began with the first note. I know, all concerts do. But the first notes produced by Horizon Chamber Choir at their concert the other day at California Heights Methodist Church, the opening concert ...

The Bach Festival Society of Winter Park performs in Steinmetz Hall and thrills with “Carmina Burana” and “Rhapsody in Blue.” ...

“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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by critic’s notebook Dan Tepfer has programmed a computer to invert the “Goldberg” Variations. Take a listen. By Anthony Tommasini In March, the jazz ...

People with perfect pitch have the rare ability of identifying a musical note as easily as most of us can look at an object and name that color. Scientists now believe that's because their brains have ...

There's something about Johann Sebastian Bach's music that nourishes musicians. Pianist Andras Schiff and cellist Yo-Yo Ma have said that they play Bach almost every day — like having breakfast, it ...

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, ...