Mechanics Hall in Worcester is home to the famed Hook Organ, also known as the Worcester Organ. And GBH’s All Things Considered host Arun Rath sat down with Mechanics Hall principal organist Peter ...

Two workmanlike pieces by the teenage Bach had their New York premiere at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

The more than 200 solo organ works that bracket the prodigious composing career of Johann Sebastian Bach have long been every organist’s Bible. Rare is the organ recital that doesn’t include such ...

Johann Sebastian Bach is undoubtedly the greatest composer for the “king of instruments,” the organ — think the famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565 — and it has been a tradition on Montpelier ...

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Colin MacKnight is getting "organized." Starting Wednesday, he's planning to perform the entire collected organ works of Baroque master Johann Sebastian Bach this year, marking the 275th anniversary ...

(Jens Schlueter/BACH ARCHIVE/AFP) Two long-lost organ pieces written by a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach were unveiled in Germany on Monday in a discovery described as a "great moment for the world of ...

After Bach went into obscurity for a while, Romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn "discovered" Bach's music in the early 19th century. "Mendelssohn immediately felt their power on the organ, and he ...

Bach in Baltimore, is, well, back. Baltimore’s Baroque music specialist will launch its 37th season Sunday by featuring a $1.2 million, custom-built, 2,200-pipe organ making its debut at St. Joseph ...

I often talk about my dad being 99, and good for him, but it is also true that my mother succumbed to a brain tumor in her late sixties. It came on suddenly, progressed rapidly and devastated the ...

The first mechanical pipe organ, a water-driven monster called a hydraulus, so awed the ancients that they enshrined it in a temple of Venus. A 5th century organ at Jerusalem thundered forth such a ...