Bach

E. Power Biggs, “one of the eminent organists of the world,” presented a recital at 8:15 p.m. Jan. 30, 1963 at First Presbyterian Church in Glens Falls. First Presbyterian Music Director Hugh Allen Wilson arranged the recital with Biggs, who at the time was heard weekly on CBS coast-to-coast radio…

by Kate Flannery The table is oval and thickly varnished. Blonde. Plain. Bleak. I’d picked it out myself with my limited funds. I’m twenty years old and about to head back to my third year at college. It will be my first year living solo in an off-campus apartment. …

God Only Knows The Spiritual Nature of Brian Wilson’s Life and Music by David Leaf My new book, just published by Omnibus Press, is titled God Only Knows: The Story of Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys and the California Myth. The title for the book wasn’t chosen by accident. Besides…

Baroque music is much-loved by me. …

An experiment in creative listening — “Storm! People are rushing outside to take in the clothes! Chaos of flowers!” (Zhu Xiao-Mei in Prelude №2 in C minor, BWV 847) “Maybe a fruit market. The cool boss walking through the stalls and picking up a grape here, an apple there, pulling jokes.” …

Pianist Elena Piccione and Romanian Astronomer Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu Enact the Composer’s Worldview on November 4 The notion that all sounding music was but a small-scale enactment of the cosmic harmony generated by the movements of the heavenly bodies was foundational to Sebastian Bach’s worldview. But modern audiences are conditioned to view music as an autonomous art, as entertainment, or as at most a sonorous analog…

Happy Heavenly Birthday to the great Glenn Gould. He would’ve been 90 today. I can’t think of another pianist, or musician for that matter, that changed my life so completely by listening to just one recording. When I left for the Interlochen Arts Academy in 1988 I had with me…