Here Bach is pervasive. Following the pattern set by the present-day chorus at Bach’s own St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, church and community choirs throughout the Western world are marking ...

Johann Sebastian Bach is a true classical music heavyweight. His seminal oeuvre comprises over 1,000 compositions, most of which date back to his time as Kapellmeister at St. Thomas's Church in ...

who have long found Bach's waywardness a thorn in their side and fear that, after the premiere of the St. Matthew Passion a few years earlier, the St. Thomas Church will once again be filled with ...