How Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor became Halloween’s theme song

Imagine a grand house on a hill, after dark on an autumn night. As the door opens, an organ pierces through the thick silence and echoes through the cavernous halls. The tune that comes to many minds ...
Los Angeles Times

Bach wrote BWV 82 to transcend tragedy. It’s a lullaby for our times too

“Ich habe genug,” Bach’s Cantata No. 82, is commonly rendered in English as “I am content.” At the cantata’s center is a lullaby of consoling sweetness, generosity of spirit and somnolent blessedness, ...

From Bach Festival Society, the magnificent and the mythical | Review

The Bach Festival Society of Winter Park displayed its versatility with Berlioz Requiem and “Fables, Feathers and Fins” in ...
Wall Street Journal

Bach Is Back, With Two ‘New’ Works for Organ

It’s exciting news, if a bit niche: Researchers have attributed two new works to Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). The announcement this week coincided with the 75th anniversary of the Bach Archive ...

What's so great about Bach?

Reasons to believe that J S Bach is the greatest classical composer of them all.
The New Yorker

Bach’s Holy Dread

“O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!” The words of the Psalm look bright on the page, but the music pulls them into shadow. The key is G minor. The bass instruments drone on ...

Bach's Inventions: What Are They For? The Most Important Thing Written in the Preface | SORAMI Classical Notebook #1

When learning the piano, many people encounter Bach's "Inventions." Many may think of them as exercises for finger independence or for highlighting motifs in the right and left hands respectively.In ...