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Bach's St. John Passion is 300 years old... and proves to be as relevant as ever
His St. John Passion is 300 years old, and it invites its listeners to grapple with those exact topics. In fact, when Bach ...
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The strong women of the Bach family
Composer Johann Sebastian Bach is a classical superstar. But little was known about the women of his musical family until now. Anna Magdalena Wilcke (1701-1760) was a well-known soprano who in ...
Giorgi Gigashvili live at Wigmore Hall in London and Bach from Leipzig
The week begins with a live concert from London’s Wigmore Hall given by current BBC New Generation Artist, pianist Giorgi ...
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Two orchestras, two choirs, one massive ‘Passion’ from Madison Bach Musicians
Madison Bach Musicians celebrates its 21st anniversary with one of Bach’s most famous works. The Madison Bach Musicians, one of the city’s leading early music ensembles, celebrates its 21st season by ...
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An Arkansas organist is playing 18 hours of Bach this year, one lunch break at a time
The ambitious plan entails performing 18 hours of music in half-hour increments ... way of immersing myself in the brilliance of Johann Sebastian Bach," MacKnight said one morning as he rehearsed ...
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Bach, Mozart or jazz: Scientists provide a quantitative measure of variability in music pieces
Physicists at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) have investigated to which extent a piece of music can ... compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, while the ...
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An Arkansas organist is playing 18 hours of Bach this year, one lunch break at a time
The nave filled with the sounds of the Gothic church’s pipe organ, and a screen showed a man performing the works of Johann Sebastian ... s music director, is performing all of Bach’s organ ...
The Phony Disease That Helped Researchers Identify Bach’s (Purported) Body
Johann Sebastian Bach was buried in an unmarked grave in 1750. Nearly two centuries later, a doctor identified the composer’s bones from skeletal evidence of “organist’s disease.” ...