Chicago's Bach in the City announced its upcoming season, featuring three period-instrument concerts at DePaul University and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

'No one before or since could make voices or instruments sing simultaneous melodies of such beautiful and interlocking separateness' My passion for Bach began when I was 16 and fell for the Double ...

The New Modern Jazz Quartet... It is hard to not compare this Classical Jazz Quartet to the Modern Jazz Quartet. They both have the same format of outstanding individual superstars, they both have a ...

For 38-year-old composer Johann Sebastian Bach, his 1723 appointment as musical director (Thomaskantor) in the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig must have seemed like a huge step. What Bach could not know ...

The famous conductor Hans von Bülow, slightly less famous as a pianist now and nearly forgotten as a composer, remains most present to modern music lovers either as the jilted husband of Cosima von ...

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 ...

The Modern Jazz Quartet epitomized what some observers labeled, perhaps derisively, "chamber jazz." The recently formed Classical Jazz Quartet (CJQ), featuring bassist Ron Carter, pianist Kenny Barron ...

Marking Johann Sebastian Bach's arrival in Leipzig 300 years ago, this year's festival features conductor Jörg Widmann and pianist Lang Lang — as well as a message from outer space. For 38-year-old ...