Bach Society and Tanglewood Learning Institute celebrate J.S. Bach’s 341st birthday 3 p.m. March 21 in Lenox with live music, a documentary screening, and audience conversation.

There are few major choral works that ‘period’ directors tend to revisit in the studio as regularly as the Mass in B minor. If Gardiner, Brüggen, Harnoncourt and Herreweghe’s individual braces of ...

As the final example in Bach’s life of what Christoph Wolff describes as ‘methodically organised works of exemplary status as paradigms of his musical art’, the Mass in B minor presents performers ...

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The “Western music” tradition mostly started in the church, and it featured, at first, the human voice. Simple chant, an unmetered melodic line sung in Latin, heightened the meaning of a biblical text ...

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exhibition "Ruth Asawa: Retrospective," featuring more than 300 works by the famed San Francisco modern artist, continues through Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2025. (Henrik ...

Revel in the splendor of The Bach Society of Saint Louis’ triumphant rendition of J.S. Bach’s monumental Mass in B minor. Led by Music Director and Conductor A. Dennis Sparger, The Bach Society Chorus ...

We began in a severe, even austere, mood, with a grave stillness and almost liturgical solemnity, and even with a fairly restrained Gloria. Then, somewhere around (to my ears) the Gratias agimus tibi, ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — It was hushed inside a 140-year-old cathedral on the outskirts of Little Rock's downtown as about five dozen people sat in the pews during a recent lunch break in January. The nave ...