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 ...

What's so great about Bach?

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

Bach, Sailing Down the Rhine

God gave him music. The devil gave him a knack for business.In German, "Bach" means "brook."However, the man named Johann ...
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 ...