Said she, puzzled and reproving: “There’s no music like this.” Little Alan Hovhaness, who knew better, replied triumphantly, “Bach did it that way.” Since then, Composer Hovhaness ...

She said the music speaks to everyone from all walks of life. It also spoke to its composer. “Mass” was completed a year before Bach died. It was a revisitation of his earlier work, created in ...

Exploring great composers with songs based on some of their most famous melodies. We travel to Germany in 1722 to hear Johann Sebastian Bach playing one of his famous harpsichord pieces, which ...