IOC President Thomas Bach Rebukes a Chinese Official for Politics

Thomas Bach, head of the International Olympic Committee, made a statement at a news conference on Friday that was a rare and surprising rebuke of a Chinese Olympic official. It came after Beijing Olympics spokesperson Yan Jiarong made comments at a press conference the previous day that seemed to violate Olympic rules regarding political neutrality. …

Listen to Keyboard Music by Bach (No, Not That)

The subject of pianist Marc-André Hamelin’s latest album is Bach – no, not him. Hamelin – always curious to explore the outer limits of the repertoire with recently released music. Sigismond Thalberg, samuil feinberg and Erno Dohnanyi — now back to an extraordinary range of keyboard exercises Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, the second surviving son …

A Composer Faces Death in ‘Bach & Sons’

LONDON – Few players could see the death rate better than Simon Russell Beale.Bach and Sons“A troubled new play that benefits from a piercing central performance at the Bridge Theatre. Writer Nina Raine has produced a research-heavy play that can be described as “Amadeus lite,” which chronicles the often complicated relationship between composer Johann Sebastian …