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 ...

Johann Sebastian Bach mastered a stunning variety of musical forms: works for solo instruments, chamber pieces, vocal music, concerti and music for the orchestra. Yet his overlooked choral music may ...

Has so apparently unexceptional an act as playing Bach in a more or less traditional way now taken on an exceptional, indeed an oppositional, character? Of course, Bach is now played everywhere; along ...

The event was initiated and is perennially overseen by Jerusalem Baroque Orchestra (JBO) founder, harpsichord player, and conductor Prof. David Shemer, who also serves as musical director. In the ...

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 ...

Many Beatles songs, including All You Need is Love, Blackbird and Penny Lane, were inspired by his music. Lady Gaga sampled his harpsichord in her hit song Bad Romance. And classical composers ...