The legacy of Western music up to his era flowed into Bach’s enormous musical intellect, and it was refracted through the lens of his genius to all composers who followed him.” From the ...

A common type of instrumental music ... Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 written in 1721. Musical director and harpsichord player John Butt introduces the piece, which is typical of the Baroque ...

Last May, as the final serene measures of the “Dona nobis pacem” sounded in St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Evanston, the ...