The New York Times

Out of Silence, the Music of Meditation

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim PRINCETON, N.J. — For as long as I can remember, I have loved the silences of the concert hall almost ...
The Arts Desk

Tenebrae, Short, St John’s Smith Square review - Bach and MacMillan soulfully joined, until the end

Personal context: as an agnostic, I value this stage in Easter week as a time for meditation on suffering, compassion and death, never more needed than now. Two year ago, when concert halls were ...
The New York Times

Bach’s Music as a Blank Canvas for Guitarists

A small-waisted, double-strung version of the guitar flourished in France, Italy and Spain in Bach’s day, though not in Germany. Bach never composed for it, but that has not stopped guitarists from ...
Seattle Times

Bach to basics: What music did the composer’s family play at home?

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.
JSTOR Daily

Constructing 'My Bach' Relevance of Historical Constructions of Bach for Members in an English Amateur 'Art Music' / Composer-oriented Bach Choir

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The purpose of this paper is to observe the meaning of J. S. Bach and his canonical repertoire in the lives of members of an amateur Bach ...
NPR

One Musician Says Bach's Music Has A Special Place In Easter

Guitarist Paul Galbraith makes the case that Johann Sebastian Bach's sonatas and partitas depict the life, death and resurrection of Christ with his eight-string guitar. So we were sitting around the ...