Halfway through reading Paul Elie’s “Reinventing Bach,” I suddenly got dizzy. An earthquake? All-purpose angst? Or could it be that composer Johann Sebastian Bach was working as an agent of ...

With the help of conductor Masaaki Suzuki, Bach’s music is bringing the message of Christian hope to a secular nation. But why would the most abstract works of an 18th-century German composer guide ...

The myths of classical music are layered with historical facts and romantic imagination. Pablo Casals, 1876–1973, a Spanish cello virtuoso, was no exception. It is often described how the 13-year-old ...