Bach's "St. Mark Passion" has been long lost. This reconstruction, coming to Seattle, combines detective work on the music and innovative staging — along with a prominent role for a former "Fresh ...

Local classical musicians are preparing for the Pacific Northwest premiere of a long-lost masterwork by the famed German ...

Composer Johann Sebastian Bach reinvented his famous St John Passion on three occasions, with each version adapted to reflect the spirit of the times. The story, which tells of the Passion of ...

It was in Leipzig that Johann Sebastian, while serving as Cantor of St. Thomas Church, composed his famous St. John Passion in 1723. Bach often rewrote his cantatas himself, using the so-called ...

Violence against LGBTQ+ people and well as war and displacement in Gaza inspire two adaptations of one of Johann Sebastian Bach's works on the story of Christ.

Faith, betrayal, tragedy and redemption: all of human emotion pulses through the notes of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St John Passion. For millions, JS Bach’s mighty choral retelling of the Passion of ...

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 ...

In partnership with the Augustana Choir, the Bach Collegium is performing Johann Sebastion Bach’s St. John Passion at St. Joesph Cathedral as part of the Sacred Arts Series at the Cathedral event.

Throughout his career, Bach's compositions were deeply influenced by his faith. Many of his works – such as the Mass in B minor, St. Matthew Passion, and St. John Passion – are considered some of the ...

Johann Sebastian Bach (born March 31, 1685; died July 28, 1750) has been called 'the supreme arbiter and law-giver of music'. He is to music what Leonardo da Vinci is to art and Shakespeare is to ...

RICHARDTON, N.D. — In the solemn quiet of Assumption Abbey, the sweeping strains of Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. John Passion rose into the rafters Friday night, as Dakota Pro Musica partnered ...