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 ...

Classical groups are playing with format — shorter concerts, earlier curtain times, pop-up performances, and more.

This week, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown issued an order requiring people to stay home to help slow the spread of the coronavirus. That means the majority of kids and adults are now at home and may be ...

The chamber choir Incarnatus, directed by Scott Dettra, performs at Church of the Incarnation in Dallas on Jan. 24, 2020. Dettra, music director and organist at Church of the Incarnation, is launching ...

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 ...

There's an elite list of classical musicians who are also part of popular culture, and violinist Midori's 2020 Kennedy Center Honor cemented her place on it. She made her professional debut at 11 with ...

During his 27 years in Leipzig, Germany, Johann Sebastian Bach had a hectic job writing original music for the city’s principal churches and civic functions, as well as teaching singing at the St.

Los Llanos is a vast plain that stretches across the border of Venezuela and Colombia. And joropo is the music that sets the rhythm of daily life in a land of ranches and cattle herding. It's a ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — 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 ...

The Bach Festival Society of Winter Park opens its season with guest Daniel Adam Maltz doing it old-school: conducting from ...

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 ...