J.S. Bach News

It may not be beginning to look a lot like Christmas, but choral ensemble Canzona decided to get the snowball rolling.

Igor Stravinsky claimed that music is beyond verbal description. But is it? While there may be a gap between the emotional experience of the beat, rhythm and cadence of music and capturing it in words, writers use metaphor, allegory and storytelling to do so.

A few weeks back, there was an article posted here that speculated what kind of music Johann Sebastian Bach would have written if he had not believed in god.

Higgs's playing was crisp, bright and filled with surprises. His programming was eclectic -- in turns fun and whimsical, and serious and searching.

Submitted by Stacey Grimaldi, CONCORA, on 2009-11-11.   On Sunday, Nov. 22, 4 p.m. there will be a 35th Anniversary Concert & Reunion.

Chicago Choral Artists opens their 35th season by celebrating the 200th anniversary of Felix Mendelssohn's birth with a concert, The Two Worlds of Mendelssohn, at the Music Institute of Chicago, 1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston on Friday, November 20th at 7:30 pm.

An account of two near-death experiences, a tale of raising a son with a rare genetic condition and a biography of media baron William Randolph Hearst's early years will compete for British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. The three books a ' by novelist Wayson Choy, journalist Ian Brown and Maclean's editor Kenneth Whyte, ...

THERE is no other guitar concert on tour anywhere in the world quite like Richard Durrant's The Guitar Whisperer - who comes to The Poly, Falmouth, on Tuesday.

Published: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 12:01 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, November 6, 2009 at 4:12 a.m. WHAT: Classical pianist Teresa Walters gives a recital as part of Florida Southern College's Festival of Fine Arts WHEN: 7:30 p.m. today WHERE: Branscomb Auditorium, Florida Southern College, Lakeland THE ARTIST: Teresa Walters is perhaps better ...

Chichester Chamber Concerts open their 2009-2010 season with a concert in memory of their founder and chairman Michael Nott who died earlier this year.

It seems somewhat perverse that Sonata Form, which only began to crumble around the 1930s, had been so long in arriving that Johann Sebastian Bach thought it not worth bothering with.

Reviewed by: kingheadshot , on october 30, 2009 0 of 0 people found this review helpful Sound: Yngwie Johann Malmsteen is probably the most famous exponent of neo-classical shred metal with a distinctive sound which is sometimes reminiscent of JS Bach's music.

If you've ever wondered what it would have sounded like if classical composer J.S. Bach dabbled in Latin jazz, Miami-based Tiempo Libre might have the answer.

As pianist and scholar Charles Rosen put it simply, Felix Mendelssohn "was the greatest prodigy the history of music has ever known." He was fully formed as a composer by age 16, when he wrote his Op.

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Members of Chicago Choral Artists open their 35th season and celebrate the 200th anniversary of composer Felix Mendelssohn's birth with The Two Worlds of Mendelssohn, a concert that observes his genius as an immensely successful composer in both the German and English styles.

LAST Sunday, a small crowd of 20 people huddled in the crisp morning air outside the grand entrance of Melbourne Town Hall.

IN 1995, spreading himself across 11 concerts and using some of the city's more appropriate and clear-speaking instruments, Calvin Bowman performed the complete works for solo organ by J.S. Bach.

Since when could you imagine the ukulele taking center stage at a symphony hall? Enter Jake Shimabukuro: a young Hawaiian who has been recognized as one of the world's most exciting and innovative ukulele players and composers.

Eric Siblin has been nominated for two Quebec writers' awards, a Governor General's Award and the Writer's Trust Award for his book The Cello Suites.