Under the nearly 2,000-year-old dome of Rome's Pantheon and above the relics of early Christian martyrs, the melodies of Johann Sebastian Bach and other composers are being played on the organ this ...
The more than 200 solo organ works that bracket the prodigious composing career of Johann Sebastian Bach have long been every organist’s Bible. Rare is the organ recital that doesn’t include such ...
Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and John D. Rockefeller had pipe organs in their New York houses. If the rest of us want to hear organ music played live, we have to go to an organ. The Saturday ...
The story could have ended there, with the 46 chorales of the Orgelbüchlein comfortably in the organist’s repertoire and a faint question mark over what Bach might have done with the others. Enter the ...
Greatest composer of organ music who ever lived was portly, quick-fingered 18th-Century Johann Sebastian Bach. His 30-odd organ fugues and numerous choral preludes and sonatas are still regarded as ...
DAVENPORT, Iowa — For more than a century, she's towered over the choir balcony of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Davenport, as the oldest pipe organ in the Quad Cities. Known as "The Voice of St. Mary ...
Several years ago, a Lutheran theologian and former Japanese newspaper correspondent uncovered an unusual phenomenon in Japan. In one of the most secular countries in the world, many people were avid ...
Mechanics Hall in Worcester is home to the famed Hook Organ, also known as the Worcester Organ. And GBH’s All Things Considered host Arun Rath sat down with Mechanics Hall principal organist Peter ...