Johann Sebastian Bach is a towering cultural icon, a composer who might be seen as the poster boy for “serious music” and spent most of his career in the service of the church. But he played many ...

It was wrong, of course, to attempt to make piano music of the “Waldstein,” and the result was the first good performance of the sonata in many months. Mr. Moiseiwitsch tried the same odd trick of ...

Rafal Blechacz, the acclaimed Polish pianist, performs at the NCPA in Beijing on Wednesday.[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Under the baton of renowned conductor Kent Nagano, the Philharmonisches ...

It isn’t uncommon for pianists of all ages to have experienced injury or even the loss of a hand. For some, it has been the making of an entire career and for many composers presented a worthy ...

The year 1685 was certainly good for music. After all, Johann Sebastian Bach, composer of St. Matthew Passion and B Minor ...

The Lensic has a new nine-foot Steinway grand piano, thanks to a very generous donor and a surprisingly rigorous and ...

From fulfilling funerary functions, to eulogising friends and fellow artists, or lamenting the waste of war: here are some of ...

FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — A now-former Atlanta Police Department officer will spend nearly 30 years in prison after the deadly shooting of a Lyft driver last year. Koby Minor, 34, had been charged with ...

A Milwaukee man is accused of sexually assaulting two women then trying to have them killed. He bonded out of jail and has been on the run for the past two years. Donald Trump chooses name for new ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Pierre Monteux, who led the scandalous premiere of “The Rite of Spring,” went on to a career of remarkable peace and selflessness. Pierre Monteux, who led the scandalous ...

Ten years after being drafted, two-and-a-half years since making his major-league debut after an eight-season slog through the minor leagues, Nathan Lukes finally got to play in a playoff game at the ...

Donald Macleod follows the trail of Johann Sebastian Bach as he makes his way in the world. Today, Bach’s courtly era, when he wrote his much-loved Brandenburg Concertos. Show more Johann Sebastian ...