As the floor feels solid and sturdy and eternal, so feel I feel about the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach wrote his 6 Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin in 1720. They feel as eternal as the ...

As the floor feels solid and sturdy and eternal, so feel I feel about the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach wrote his 6 Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin in 1720. They feel as eternal as the ...

In his first book, The Life You Save May Be Your Own, Elie wrote a group portrait of writers—Thomas Merton, Flannery O’Connor, Dorothy Day, Walker Percy—whose writings and lives could be connected by ...

Bach’s Mass in B minor does not usher you in gently. The orchestra and full chorus leap in together on the first note, gravely and emphatically asking for mercy. Kyrie, kyrie, eleison, eleison. I am ...

Jeff Spurgeon: In New York City, there are lots of ways to get to Carnegie Hall: the subway, a taxi, a walk down 57th Street. You've just found another way to get to America's most famous home for ...

Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Spotify or Apple Music playlist at the bottom of the page. Glass, like Bach before him, ...

Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” were first published in 1741 and consisted of an aria and 30 variations made up of 32 measures each – a sampler of Western dance music enjoyed during his time. In her new ...

A pair of organ works that scholars believe were written by a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach were premiered in Leipzig this week and added to the composer’s official catalog. By Adam Nagourney Meredith ...

Many Beatles songs, including All You Need is Love, Blackbird and Penny Lane, were inspired by his music. Lady Gaga sampled his harpsichord in her hit song Bad Romance. And classical composers ...