Laszlo Fassang, a young organist from Budapest, has clean-cut boyish looks and a warm smile. For his Los Angeles debut at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Sunday night, he made a point of his nationality.
Bach wrote this huge piece for the organ, but we're going to hear it in an arrangment for wind band. Jerry Junkin leads the Dallas Wind Symphony in concert, in Bach's famous Toccata and Fugue in D ...
Grace Church -- a compact, austerely beautiful mid-19th-century chapel that is in lower Georgetown but looks as though it might have come straight out of Ingmar Bergman's Sweden -- has been presenting ...
Early-music enthusiasts and Bach buffs have been buzzing for weeks about the arrival in Seattle of the Netherlands Bach Society, which will perform Bach’s famous B Minor Mass at Town Hall on Sunday ...
No other composer has influenced future generations in the same measure as Johann Sebastian Bach. His timeless compositions are so perfectly crafted that every detail feels essential, with no hint of ...
Editor’s note: This story is part of ‘Meet a UChicagoan,’ a regular series focusing on the people who make UChicago a distinct intellectual community. Some people cook elaborate meals in their spare ...
Many people, if they wonder how music is made up, suppose that it consists of a tune and an accompaniment. The paradigmatic guitarist in front of a campfire croons the melody, while his hands create ...
It is no accident, as the Marxists like to say, that the Chinese concert pianist Lang Lang chose last weekend to release his first-ever recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Lang, 38, initially ...