Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Bach's era, the pipe organ was one of the world's most technologically advanced instruments. Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis via ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Arcadia Chorale of Northeast PA will hold its 39th annual NEPA Bach Festival Saturday, March 21, through Sunday, March 22, 2025. Three concerts will take place throughout the festival: ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A new project completes Bach’s plans for his kaleidoscopic “Orgelbüchlein,” with a 21st-century touch. By Hugh Morris One of the most enduring ...

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 ...

Hector Berlioz once remarked that the orchestra may be the king of music, but that the organ is the pope. In the past 200 years, since the death of Bach (1685-1750), the king has reigned supreme.