Schulenberg Explores C. P. E. Bach
Wagner College music historian David Schulenberg’s new book, The Music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, will be published in September 2014 by the University of Rochester Press, a partner of the...
View ArticleBach’s Life Story on Record
From the “Tale Spinners for Children” series Some of my favorite moments in Bach reception history come from commercial children’s recordings and films that tell his life story. I’m especially drawn to...
View ArticleThe Power of Candlelight
A peaceful demonstration in Leipzig, 1989 Travelers to Germany in 2014, especially to Berlin, Dresden and Leipzig, may encounter a variety of celebrations honoring the twenty-fifth anniversary of the...
View ArticleThe Year 1715
Weimar, ca. 1715 Three hundred years ago in Weimar, Konzertmeister Bach was busy composing sacred works for performance in the Palace Church at the Wilhelmsburg as well as playing the organ. The terms...
View ArticleBartolomeo Cristofori and the Piano
Bartolomeo Cristofori in 1726 The names that come to mind at the mention of the Italian Renaissance are the likes of the House of Medici, Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo. Few, however, know the name...
View ArticleThe Legacy of Jaroslav Pelikan
Jaroslav Pelikan It has been nearly ten years since Jaroslav Pelikan died and a full twenty-five since he completed The Christian Tradition, his five-volume, 2,100-page history of “what the church of...
View ArticleAnother Bock for Bach
Betsy Gwinn and Alex Tiedtke of the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park [FL] recently learned of a three-hundred-year-old letter Bach wrote to a friend proclaiming his love for a barrel of beer he had...
View ArticleA Farewell to Bach
A drawing by Eliane Gerrits My friend’s husband recently died, so on a foggy February morning, I ask her over for a cup of tea. “Oh, no, please come to my house instead,” she says, “and you can still...
View ArticleIs There Inherited “Genius” in the Bach Family Tree?
Johann Sebastian, Carl Phillipp Emanuel, Johann Christian, Wilhelm Friedemann and Johann Christoph Bach Perhaps as captivating a question as how to define a “genius” in music is whether that genius can...
View ArticleBach in Modesto
Tenth Street Plaza in Modesto The Modesto Junior College Community Orchestra will celebrate the birthday of composer Johann Sebastian Bach with a “Bach in the Subways Day” on Saturday, 21 March 2015 at...
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