What's that old maxim... no politics or religion at the dinner table? It's a concept that would have made Johann Sebastian Bach scoff. His St. John Passion is 300 years old, and it invites its ...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s “St. John Passion,” which had its premiere on Good Friday 1724, doesn’t so much begin as erupt. In the swirling, agitated strings and piercing cries of oboes, we instantly ...

With hymns and solos covering part of the Gospel of John, Johann Sebastian Bach’s “St. John Passion” is a big undertaking. “It’s a huge piece for chorus and orchestra and soloists,” Tom Remenschneider ...

Upper Valley Baroque will celebrate the 300th anniversary of the premiere of Johann Sebastian Bach’s masterpiece, St. John Passion, in Leipzig, Germany, in 1724. It proved so important to the composer ...

ETO is touring the Passion to 10 venues (many, but not all ecclesiastical) over the next few weeks, collaborating with locally based choirs in each location. On this first night in Lichfield Cathedral ...

But the real thing has been so longed for. This year, if you booked far enough in advance, you could even catch small vocal groups in various church services; I wasn’t expecting to be so moved by the ...

Speaker 2: Carnegie Hall, please. Speaker 3: Please, here are your tickets. Enjoy the show. Speaker 4: Your tickets, please? Follow me. Jeff Spurgeon: Remember those days running from a taxi to catch ...

In 1965, the Second Vatican Council decreed that the death of Jesus “cannot be blamed upon all the Jews then living, without distinction, nor upon the Jews of today.” You wouldn’t think the decree had ...

The Elgin Master Chorale, in collaboration with the Bella Voce Sinfonia, will perform J.S. Bach’s “St. John Passion” at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, April 13, at Elgin Community College’s Blizzard Theater in ...