Berkeley-born playwright Itamar Moses wrote his play “Bach at Leipzig” much like Johann Sebastian Bach himself wrote his music. If he were the kind of writer with a need to impress his ...

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"Bach at Leipzig" seems far more intoxicated with its own cleverness than most audiences are likely to be. Itamar Moses is a young playwright whose work has attracted support from his chief ...

From the St. John to St. Matthew Passion, contemporary arrangements of Bach masterpieces at the Leipzig Bach Festival speak to oppression and conflict.ComposerJohann Sebastian Bach reinvented his ...

A great prelude to the Leipzig trip was Yo-Yo Ma playing Bach cello suites at the Barbican. Astonishing that a single performer and instrument can hold 3000 people (including my 13-year-old son ...

One can listen to all 175 hours of Bach’s lifelong work or rearrange the instrumentals for one of his hymns at the newly renovated Bach Museum (Thomaskirchhof 15/16; 49-34-191-37202; www.bach ...

Most of the work's component parts date from various times in Bach's long residence in Leipzig; they were assembled to form a complete mass only near the end of his life. The earliest section is ...

A previously unknown composition by Johann Sebastian Bach has been discovered by a classical music scholar in Germany. The two-page, handwritten aria was composed in 1713 for soprano, strings and ...

The nominal premise of "Bach at Leipzig" is that of a competition among Germany's greatest organists, circa 1722, for the coveted post of that city's chief musical director. But if that suggests a ...