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 ...

This Sunday, the University’s performance of Bach St. John Passion will transport Rockefeller Chapel from modern day Hyde Park to 18th century Leipzig. The Rockefeller Chapel Choir and Orchestra, ...

Described as a musical masterpiece and immersive experience that speaks to the soul, the newly founded Augustana Bach Collegium invites you to celebrate the intersection of faith and the arts through ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The American Classical Orchestra continues its 40th anniversary season with a ...

From Salzburg to Dijon to Paris, a German choreographer adds striking dance to the sacred oratorio. By A.J. Goldmann The first thing we hear in Sasha Waltz’s production of the “St. John Passion” ...

This Passion is visceral and violent, with ear-severing, beating, scourging, leg-breaking and – as John Eliot Gardiner hears it in that “overture” – nails being driven through hands to the cross.

Bach in his full grieving glory remains confined to the screen, but how good to catch it all in performances from Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre and Stockholm’s Berwald Hall, home to the Swedish Radio ...

Following successful concerts in November and December, Ripon Choral Society will perform Bach’s St John Passion on Saturday, ...

T.S. Eliot — not to mention Martin Luther and J.S. Bach — might have scolded the Dallas Bach Society for breeding passions out of season. Indeed, it seemed odd to schedule Bach’s St. John Passion, ...

Includes essays by Kenneth Slowik, James Weaver, Thomas G. MacCracken and Jaap Schröder. Booklet may accompany 6 sound cassettes also published by Smithsonian ...