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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Colin MacKnight is getting "organized." Starting Wednesday, he's planning to perform the entire collected organ works of Baroque master Johann Sebastian Bach this year, marking the 275th anniversary ...

Johann Sebastian Bach is undoubtedly the greatest composer for the “king of instruments,” the organ — think the famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 — and it has been a tradition on Montpelier ...

I often talk about my dad being 99, and good for him, but it is also true that my mother succumbed to a brain tumor in her late sixties. It came on suddenly, progressed rapidly and devastated the ...

After Bach went into obscurity for a while, Romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn "discovered" Bach's music in the early 19th century. "Mendelssohn immediately felt their power on the organ, and he ...

The first mechanical pipe organ, a water-driven monster called a hydraulus, so awed the ancients that they enshrined it in a temple of Venus. A 5th century organ at Jerusalem thundered forth such a ...

This year's program offers several ways to experience Johann Sebastian Bach's music on the church's Holtkamp pipe organ. On Friday at 7:30 p.m., concert-goers will be treated to a selection of Bach's ...

Bach in Baltimore, is, well, back. Baltimore’s Baroque music specialist will launch its 37th season Sunday by featuring a $1.2 million, custom-built, 2,200-pipe organ making its debut at St. Joseph ...